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-:: SOLID METAL GASKETS ::-

Flat metal gaskets are best suited for applications such as bonnets, ammonia fittings, heat exchangers, hydraulic presses, tongue-and-groove joints. They can be used when compressibility is required to compensate for flange surface finish, warpage or misalignment and where sufficient clamping force is available to seat the particular metal selected. The hardness of gasket metal must be less than the hardness of the gasket seating surface of the flange. Flat metal gaskets are relatively inexpensive to produce and can be made of virtually any material that is available in sheet form.


Profile type gaskets offer the desirable qualities of plain washer types and the added advantage of a reduced contact area provided by the V-shaped surface . It is used when a solid metal gasket is required because of pressure or temperature or because of highly corrosive effect of the fluid to be contained and also when bolting is not sufficient to seat a flat washer. Standard thickness is 1/8” minimum thickness is 1/16”.

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