Thread: Cork suppliers? Brisbane

As workable as cork is have you considered laminating the 6mm stuff to obtain the desired effect.

Or alternativly try a flooring supplier, cork is often used as a tile and or varying sizes as gap fill in for flooring, try "cork brisbane" in a google search.

Considered rubber as an alternative seal, since its on a glass jar? Clark rubber? they might even do cork?

Neal.

Thanks for that Neal, I did try a few flooring places but were still too thin. But in the end I'm just going to laminate a wooden piece to the top of the 6mm cork. That way the cork will stop act as a lid and the timber can be for looks.

Shane.

Originally Posted by thompy

As workable as cork is have you considered laminating the 6mm stuff to obtain the desired effect.

Or alternativly try a flooring supplier, cork is often used as a tile and or varying sizes as gap fill in for flooring, try "cork brisbane" in a google search.

Considered rubber as an alternative seal, since its on a glass jar? Clark rubber? they might even do cork?

Neal.

Sounds like a nice lil project, love to see some pics when your done.

Neal.

A quick search on ebay turned up sheets of 900x600x12.

Reverse Garbage usually have stacks of cork offcuts large enough for your application, still only the thin stuff but the price is right.

Reverse Garbage, or get a dozen cork tiles in a pack frombunnies. they are thicker than the rolls.

Thanks everyone for their suggestions. In the end I went to Reverse Garbage as they had round cork offcuts for only $25 a kilo. That worked out to only cost around 60c per lid compared to $3.40 a lid if I had purchased the cork tiles from Bunnings.

Now I just have to work out how to glue 72 cork round lids together. I'll probably use Titebond III.

Shane.

A bit late, but you can get nice cork composition sheets from Model Railway shops - its used to go under the track. Just make (turn? or rout) a solid wood lid about 6 mm undersized, then glue a strip of cork sheet around it.

You can have fancy wood showing and the cork strip gives the tight seal.

Originally Posted by bsrlee

A bit late, but you can get nice cork composition sheets from Model Railway shops - its used to go under the track. Just make (turn? or rout) a solid wood lid about 6 mm undersized, then glue a strip of cork sheet around it.

You can have fancy wood showing and the cork strip gives the tight seal.

Thanks for that suggestion. When I did an initial search about cork suppliers on the forum, I think I found either another post by you or someone else suggesting to use the railway hobby cork. I meant to try the hobby shops but doubted their price would have ended up being as cheap as Reverse Garbage.

I was going to go with your idea about routing or using a lathe plus using a strip of cork but decided against that as my lathe skills aren't the best and I wanted the simplest method in the end. I can just glue the cork rounds together and put them through on the bandsaw using a circle jig to get the right size. Then glue the cork rounds to the bottom of the hardwood discs.

Thanks again everyone for their suggestions. It certainly give me many ideas.

Shane.