As long as you can get the area good and clean as even a thin

layer of sealant can peal off and ball up in an oil
passage.  With good clean up I would have no objection
although IMHO  the o-ring set up is the best.  Have you checked around
for a small machine shop that might make you a plate with
the o-ring grooves or even cut the grooves in your plate for you?
Are there enough people on the list who need one of these
plates that someone could get jigged up to make a bunch?  I only have
an old horizontal mill so o-ring grooves are hard unless I
can turn the piece in a lathe but seems to me that there are a
number of people with vertical mills that could probably

do this??

Bryan in Princeton  B.C.

I haven't checked to see about getting a local machine shop to do 
this, but I will. Anyone in the Seattle area know of a machine shop 
that will do this?

Brian Trubee

 
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