Sheet Gasket Material?

No I've never sheet gasket material, BUT....

My dealer sells sheet gasket material.

Otherwise HVAC places usually have it.

Hello, I have a 6039 and I use a 2 foot by 3 foot heat gasket for my Draft fan. The gasket has a fiber exterior with a thin metal liner in the middle. Most people use this for home made muffler and exhaust gaskets. Nappa Auto has that along with other auto stores. They can give you a temperature rating that will satisfy you. I have remover my draft fan several times and the first gasket is still there. With the material left over I'm looking at about 10 or 12 years before replacing it. Also did not need gasket silicone sealer, the bolts compressed the fiber and does not leak at all. Use tin snips or throw away scissors.

I use Spectre 565 available at your local Autozone, they may have to order it, if you order it through their store, shipping is free!

Any large sheet of auto heat gasket material is by far less costly then flimsy use once gaskets offered by stove manufacturers.

Quite a few members in the past used a product called Lytherm.

I tried getting some muffler gasket material from a local auto parts dealer, they asked me what I was doing with it , and I told them it was for a pellet stove, and they refused to sell it to me.

I bought some gasket material from McMaster Carr that had or was made of graphite and it was the most fragile stuff I have ever handled, no way I would ever do that again.

Whatever you get it must be gas tight, compressible, the correct thickness, and the proper temperature rating for where it is to be used.

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SmokeyTheBear said:

Whatever you get it must be gas tight, compressible, the correct thickness, and the proper temperature rating for where it is to be used.

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Smokey, I appreciate your insight. Does your stove have the two small square cleanout "doors" on either side of the heat exchanger behind the side panels? These are the ones I need gaskets for. The factory ones are crumbling. The "doors" only have two screws in opposite corners so I am not sure how well they seal to begin with. I do not think the temps are excessive at that location.

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Nope don't have those doors, but if it is on the combustion side of the exchanger and inside the firebox a window gasket might be what you could replace it with. I really need a picture to figure out where this is, a number of stoves use a gasket on the ash trap access ports and these are inside the firebox. They are used to keep the hot exhaust from going out of the stove other than at the top of the firebox where the exchanger tube/plates are located.

pell it said:

Nope don't have those doors, but if it is on the combustion side of the exchanger and inside the firebox a window gasket might be what you could replace it with. I really need a picture to figure out where this is, a number of stoves use a gasket on the ash trap access ports and these are inside the firebox. They are used to keep the hot exhaust from going out of the stove other than at the top of the firebox where the exchanger tube/plates are located.

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I have a pic in this thread: https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/86432/[/quote]

You should be able to use a thin window glass gasket, you could stick it to the plate that comes off using a bead of stove gasket cement. Give the gasket cement time to setup before putting it back on the stove. Then it should be usable for sometime.

HopeItBurns said:

I use Spectre 565 available at your local Autozone, they may have to order it, if you order it through their store, shipping is free!

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I also use Spectre 565 to make my own gaskets, no complaints here!

Awesome info - was looking for the exact same stuff!! It is used on my cover plate above the heat exchanger tubes, and also for the combustion fan...

Tried the McMaster route - waaaaaay to expensive - and I use them for a lot of stuff....but won't buy gaskets there LOL..

eBay - good find!