Spider gasket Lube or no Lube

[nicole12]

Don't really understand what the problem is. Everything to the naked eye looks good. I cleaned inside where the gasket meets the plastic. That looks good, however there was a tiny little scratch, not deep and extremely thin.

I installed a ball valve on the waste line. After sitting for about 16 hours I opened it up and only a few drips came out. So when the filter isn't running it's not really leaking. Let the filter run for about an hour yesterday and the site glass didn't even start to fill up.

Hopefully when they send me the new gasket I'll be ok. I'll use rubber cement or silicone next time. I have some silicone that's I've used to fix a hose connection and a plumbing leak. Is that what you refer to as "silicone seal"?

When I attached the gasket with super glue, I weighted it down with a 10lb weight.

[matt4x4]

Hi Nicole,
The gasket may just need a littel time to settle into place, before you go installing the new gasket they're replacing this one with, give this one a little time in case it "settles in"
Even the tiny scratch can leak, however, through movement of the filter, the gasket will eventually adapt and cover that scratch.
The small leak you're describing likely won't create any prressure to blow off your sight glass, if you check it once a day and drain what collects, you'll keep it running indefinitely, and like I pointed out, it'll probably become less and less.

[nicole12]

That's what I was hoping would happen that the gasket would eventually conform itself to the plastic.

Thanks for the advice.