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MCCULLOCH The official McCulloch thread
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I ordered a knife blade for my wife's Cricut so I could cut gasket material. It finally showed up! The original gasket on the flywheel side of my 200 did not fare too well when taking it apart - after 62 years I think it is due for a new one! Using the original gasket (one the left) and calipers on the metal surface I drew up the gasket shape in Adobe Fusion 360, saved the drawing as an .svg (scalable vector graphic - lets you resize without losing any dimensions or sharpness on the drawing). I imported the .svg file into the Cricut and cut out the shape on plain computer paper (2nd from left). This allowed me to place the template on the metal and make sure everything fit and lined up. Any minor changes can be made in Fusion 360 and a new .svg outputted. When I was happy with the computer paper version, then I made one out of card stock (2nd from right) on the Cricut. Card stock is not as flimsy as computer paper and would lay more like gasket material and the edges will not roll as easy when fitting it around the metal. When I was happy with the cardstock, then I fit the knife blade into the Cricut and loaded the gasket material. After about 2 minutes of cutting (the blade makes several passes cutting deeper each time), the Cricut was done and I peeled the final gasket (1st from the right) from the mat. I didn't have to pop out the little holes as they remained on the sticky mat.
Gaskets (L-R) Original, Computer Paper, Cardstock, and Yamakato Gasket Material
The final gasket resting in place, a couple of the holes are slightly off, but I can compensate later if I want to by slightly sizing them up slightly and cutting another gasket.
My gasket that goes between the fuel tank and the cylinder disintegrated, it stuck both parts as I was taking it off, so I didn't have anything to work with in creating a new one. I went on-line and found a picture of one and was able to trace in in Fusion 360 as opposed to freehanding the previous one from measurements I took. Below are my cuts, the first one on the left was my initial cut (went straight to card stock). I laid this on my part and the black marks on the card stock are the adjustments I needed to make. Once I made the adjustments in 360, I then loaded the new .svg file into the Cricut and cut out the second card stock gasket (middle one). It lined up much better and then decided to cut one out of gasket material (right). It laid on well, no slop and all of the screw holes and the oiler hole lined up.
Once I get these dialed in, I just need to save the file and can pull it up when I want and cut what gaskets I need. I have some cork gasket material that I will give a try and see how that turns out too.
Gaskets (L-R) Original, Computer Paper, Cardstock, and Yamakato Gasket Material
The final gasket resting in place, a couple of the holes are slightly off, but I can compensate later if I want to by slightly sizing them up slightly and cutting another gasket.
My gasket that goes between the fuel tank and the cylinder disintegrated, it stuck both parts as I was taking it off, so I didn't have anything to work with in creating a new one. I went on-line and found a picture of one and was able to trace in in Fusion 360 as opposed to freehanding the previous one from measurements I took. Below are my cuts, the first one on the left was my initial cut (went straight to card stock). I laid this on my part and the black marks on the card stock are the adjustments I needed to make. Once I made the adjustments in 360, I then loaded the new .svg file into the Cricut and cut out the second card stock gasket (middle one). It lined up much better and then decided to cut one out of gasket material (right). It laid on well, no slop and all of the screw holes and the oiler hole lined up.
Once I get these dialed in, I just need to save the file and can pull it up when I want and cut what gaskets I need. I have some cork gasket material that I will give a try and see how that turns out too.
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