Bamford was a British manufacture of small industrial and farm engines, among other things, dating back to the 1870s. I am not sure if they are still around, but believe they may be but trading under a different name. A customer who has used our services before sent a scan of a head gasket for [...]
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Bamford model Z4 Diesel engine
December 1, 2010Rolls Royce Merlin 1590V Mk35 Rocker Arm Covers
December 1, 2010An aircraft museum in the USA sent a request to make 20 leftside and 20 rightside rocker cover gaskets for a Rolls Royce Merlin 1590V Mk35 engine. They sent some old gaskets along with a pattern for some changes to the outside of the gaskets. We offered three material choices along with spec sheets and [...]
Lanchester Copper Sandwich Exhaust Gaskets
September 26, 2010Lanchester automobiles were an early English marque that at one time were renowned for their quality. According to the Wikipedia listing on these cars: Lanchester Motor Company was a car manufacturer based at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street Birmingham, England. It operated from 1895–1955. The company having merged with Daimler and thence becoming part of Jaguar, [...]
Offenhauser 110
August 8, 2010Offenhauser was an American racing engine manufacturer that was in business 50 years, from 1933 to 1983. The inspiration for the race winning ‘Offy’ engines was a 1913 Peugeot Grand Prix car. The engine came to feature twin overhead cams, four cylinders, and four valves per cylinder, and went on to power Indianapolis 500 winners [...]
Moto Guzzi Falcone Copper Crush Rings
July 29, 2010The Moto Guzzi Falcone was an unusual Italian single cylinder motorcycle that had a long life span and several different iterations. A customer contacted Gaskets-to-Go about making some somewhat unusual copper crush washers. Unusual because the spec called for a thin copper ring to be inserted inside the gasket material sandwich, so in effect there [...]
Komatsu Mini-Excavator
February 28, 2010More than a few of our customers are looking for gaskets for Chinese and Japanese industrial engines. With the sheer number of different models and differences in domestic and export names it can be tough to find gaskets, particularly if they are no longer sold. This customer had a Komatsu Mini-Excavator with what he suspected [...]
Multi-layer Steel (MLS) Exhaust Gaskets
February 27, 2010This customer sent a scan of two exhaust gaskets and asked us to make replacements in the form of a multi-layer steel (MLS) gaskets. As the name implies, these are made of multiple layers of steel with a steel fire ring. In this case the fire ring we supplied was made from stainless steel. He [...]
1910 Fairbanks Morse 2 HP Vertical
February 27, 2010A growing portion of our business comes from those restoring old industrial and farm engines. In this particular case the customer sent scans of a composite head gasket and solid copper exhaust gaskets for a 1910 Fairbanks Morse 2HP vertical he is restoring. We used those to provide a quotation, and to make the gaskets [...]
Meadows HDC Engine
February 15, 2010Meadows made lots of engines and gearboxes for industrial, automotive, and marine use in the U.K. until it merged with another company and the name disappeared in 1960. A customer asked for a quotation based on a drawing in .dxf format, which I will paste below. The type of gasket requested was non-asbestos copper sandwich [...]
