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rubber gaskets are easy to manufacture if you have a mold for them. It's really awful that philips stopped making them without giving the mold to someone. With
by timthelion 9y ago
rubber gaskets are easy to manufacture if you have a mold for them. It's really awful that philips stopped making them without giving the mold to someone. With the mold, you can make a rubber gasket with nothing more than a kitchen stove and the raw materials.
- microcolonel 9y ago> without giving the mold to someone It's possible they could be called up to retrieve the specifications and possibly the mold. It's not necessarily the case that they've destroyed or lost track of them. Notwithstanding that, it's a vacuum vessel, there are only so many ways the gasket could be designed. I'm not qualified to design a part like that, but surely there are many people who are.
- pitaa 9y agoWhat rubber gasket are you referring to? I don't recall gaskets specifically mentioned in the article. They talk about they neck collar, but that is supposedly "canvas." Due to the mergers/acquisitions involved over the years, it's entirely possible that Philips doesn't even know exactly where their current stock came from. While I certainly believe they could be of more help than they have been, I also think people are massively underestimating how hard it might be for them to do so.