UPDATE: I visited Cometic last month. They are really geared to making gaskets in lots of 100 or more, with an additional tooling charge of at least $1500 to boot. The biggest manufacturing issue is making tooling to put in fire ring embossments. I would have to get on their long waiting list of at least six months or more for consideration. But I was able to convince them to sell me a couple of multi-layered steel laminated gasket blanks with no embossing ($120 each). I am going to try one without any embossing and if it does not last then I plan to make my own embossing dies and stamp them myself in my second sample. If anybody with CNC capabilities or some open machine shop time wants to volunteer to help with this tooling then by all means contact me.
Stay tuned.
