Max Compression & Reinstall of Spiral Wound Gaskets -Advice Needed

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Maximum compression for spiral wound gaskets is determined by the manufacturer and is application-specific. Once installed, these gaskets undergo permanent deformation and should not be reused, as the costs associated with reinstallation often exceed the price of new gaskets. Experiences indicate that reusing spiral wound gaskets, particularly in high-stress environments like boiler manholes, is not advisable due to significant crushing during installation. Proper torque specifications are critical, but in some cases, informal tightening methods were employed due to management's reluctance to use torque wrenches. Overall, replacing gaskets after a single use is the recommended practice for ensuring reliability.
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Thickness and maximum compression
Would need advise on which is the maximum allowed compression to apply to a gasket according to the thickness of the gasket. If this information is available from the manufacturers, would like to know. Also, if once used, the gasket can be reinstalled and which is the experience about that.
 
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Flexitallic has some decent reference information.

This is really application specific.
 
The manufacturer specifies compression or bolt torque. You must identify the manufacturer.
A spiral wound gasket is deformed permanently when installed, it does not recover.

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Also, if once used, the gasket can be reinstalled and which is the experience about that.
The hidden costs of re-using a gasket works out greater than the cost of replacing it with a new gasket.
 
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We used spiralwounds on the boiler manholes. General consensus was that if you used it once you chuck em. They get crushed quite badly when you tighten them down.
Can't comment on recommended torques though. We tightened them as hard as we could and then flogged them down some more sometimes, the bolts were big though and could handle flogging. No torque wrenches available...management did not believe in torque wrenches and thought the guys would destroy them.
 
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