SILCA 741 Leather Piston Gasket (formerly 74.1)

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SILCA 741 Leather Piston Gasket (formerly 74.1)

SILCA 741 Leather Piston Gasket (formerly 74.1)

Original price was: $8.80.Current price is: $4.49.

36 in stock

SKU: AM-PU-GAS-COM-741 Category:

Description

Since the 1960’s all SILCA leather gaskets have come from the same leather converting house in the fashion district of Milan, Italy. For more than 5 decades the same supplier has cut these washers from the excess material left over from the production of exotic handbags, Italian luxury cars interiors, and high-fashion luggage. A small press is used to trim and pressure-form these leather washers into durable pressure gaskets.

From a purely functional standpoint, inexpensive o-rings are most commonly used in this application, but no o-ring can match the smooth feel and zero-stiction action of a leather gasket. It is common today to find SILCA leather gasket pumps throughout the professional peloton (especially during the spring classics) as o-ring seal pumps struggle with heat and often are unable to seal once the pump barrel is hot from inflating more than a few wheels.

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