Re: Dying nylon tubing for 0-rings

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From: <upwind120_at_gmail.com>
Date: 10 May 2014 14:20:16 -0700

Okay, as long as we're going over the top here (I think everything about F1D is a little over the top) I drilled a #13 hole in a small strip of .063 aluminum, and chamfered (one step beyond deburred) the hole on both sides. This makes the tool, easy-peasy. Now the tool is set flat on top of the nylon o-ring, and pushed down so the o-ring snaps into the hole. Then go back in with the deburring tool and cut the sharp inside corners off the o-ring.

They looked good under a 10x loupe, and I decided to take it up a notch and use the tool as a slicing guide so I could cut the rings exactly .063 thick and chamfer them as the second step.
It was a bit awkward to do, but produced a bunch of beautiful commercially acceptable rings.

I'll leave the boiling and dying to the serious zealots.

a.

Received on Sat May 10 2014 - 14:20:16 CEST