Why the Perfect Gasket is the Most Important Fit—and How to Achieve It
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last, oh, say, century, you’re familiar with the story of Cinderella. But just in case you need a refresher, here we go.
The story is about a girl named Cinderella who wants to go to a party, but her stepmother and stepsisters are the OG Mean Girls. She and her merry band of talking (and singing) rodents (?!) meet up with Cindy’s fairy godmother, who absolutely decks her out in not only the most eye-catching but least practical footwear of all time—a pair of glass slippers.
Cinderella shows how grateful she is for this priceless gift by losing one of them immediately. (In her defense, she was given a very strict curfew.)
Prince Charming, having found half of Cinderella’s super-reasonable-and-definitely-not-painful footwear, resolves to find the woman he “loves” (read: just met) by having all of the women in the village try on the glass slipper. When it came time for Cindy’s turn, it was clear to see that the slipper couldn’t be anyone else’s.
This was true love and destiny.
But enough about that fairy tale, because today we’re talking about the fairy tale of finding the perfect gasket for your needs. It’s just like Cinderella, but even more romantic.
And unlike finding the perfect foot for a glass slipper in a town full of people, it’s achievable—with the right preparation, communication, and experienced advice from the guys and gals at Gorilla Gaskets.
Why Finding That “Glass-Slipper” Gasket is So Important
Someday, your prince (or princess) will come—but you can wait for Mr. or Ms. Charming. In most gasket cases, you just can’t.
- It keeps your materials—and your life—functioning properly.
Gaskets are crucial for sealing, protecting, and keeping things contained. If you have a busted gasket, it’s unlikely that whatever you’re using is working like it should.
- It protects your equipment as a whole.
Many gaskets are used to insulate areas from extreme temperatures, liquids, or chemicals. Those materials should not be interacting with the other areas of your equipment. (If they should, you wouldn’t need a gasket in the first place!)
Ill-fitting gaskets, or ones that are made from insufficient materials, put your machine at risk of a bigger meltdown in the near future.
- It protects you.
Gaskets are the unsung heroes of most of our equipment, protecting us in ways that we don’t even think about. But in cases of gaskets that are used in machinery for human or animal consumption, you could become seriously hurt or sick without the correct gasket for the job.
How We Can Help You Achieve that “Magic” Gasket Moment
The best part of finding your perfect gasket with Gorilla Gaskets is that it’s far from fantasy. We’re ready to help you match whatever you need sealed and secured with the picture-perfect gasket that’s made from a (non-glass) material that’s up for the job.
You might as well call us your “fairy-gasket-godparents”.
- Expert Knowledge
It’s no surprise to anyone that we at Gorilla Gaskets have been in the gasket game for quite some time. While it hasn’t improved our ability to whip up glass slippers and a pumpkin-carriage out of thin air, it’s given us the skills and abilities to spot a problem with your gasket—and to stop that problem right at the source.
If the gasket you’ve got isn’t the right fit, we’re not only ready to tell you what you need, but why, if that’s something you’re interested in knowing more about.
- Consultation on Sizing and Materials
As we’ve mentioned, finding your fairy-tale gasket isn’t just about sizing, but about materials, too.
We stand behind the quality of all the products and materials we sell. But if you’ve got the wrong gasket material on your machine, then your magic is going to run out far before midnight.
- Endless Options, Inventory, and Accessibility
We’re not gonna lie: What Cindy’s fairy godmother did with a bunch of rats, a gourd, and a little bit of magic was more than a little impressive,
But that’s not how we play it here at Gorilla Gaskets.
To make sure that your gasket issue is solved as painlessly as possible, we’ve got inventory and materials that will make your head spin.
And if we find that what you need to fix the problem isn’t in stock, we’ll make sure that your gasket is getting to you in record time regardless.
- Emergency Services
Fairy godmothers work on a short timeline, and so do we. If you have a gasket that you can’t live without, we’re here to fix the issue faster than you can say, “Bippity, boppity, boo”.
How to Help Us Create Your Happy Ending
Believe it or not, when it comes to gaskets, you get to play a part in creating your happy ending! We’re just here to help.
When you come to us for the gasket of your (and your equipment’s) dreams, here are some ways to get us going in the right direction.
- No information is “too much” information
There’s nothing more that we love more than seeing our clients over-prepared—in fact, we’d say that there’s no such thing!
If you can’t bring your physical machinery into the store, it would be extremely helpful to have as much information as possible. This gives us an enormous head start!
Some helpful information to bring would include:
- The make, model, and year of your equipment
- What problems your machine was having up to this point
- The last time your gasket was changed (if you know)
And if you can bring in the physical gasket that’s not working for you, that would be a dream come true.
- Be patient and ready to communicate.
We know that the fact that your current gasket isn’t quite up to snuff is probably really irritating—but you can’t rush magic!
Please be patient with us, and be ready to communicate the issues you and your gasket are having.
That way, we can send you to the ball, erm, to your home or office, as quickly as possible.
- Trust in our expertise!
We might not be experts in ballgowns, but we are experts in gaskets. Have a little bit of faith in us, and you’ll see that miracles can happen.
So, whether it’s your carriage, your car, your glass slipper, or your industrial-grade machinery, there is such a thing as a perfect fit when it comes to gaskets. And while we wish we had a magic wand to wave and resolve all of your gasket problems, we here at Gorilla Gaskets will rely on years of friendly, expert service, knowledge, and passion instead.
After all, we’re all about making your (gasket) dreams a reality, and about giving your issues a storybook ending.
Gorilla Gasket
1012 N 1st St
Artesia, NM 88210
(575) 336-1446
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