[alfa] crush washers

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience, finding copper crush washers, especially metric 
ones, is an inexplicable pain in the ass.  Am I overlooking something 
obvious?  It seems to me that the world is full of banjo fittings and 
other applications for copper crush washers?  How come no hardware 
store, no auto parts store, and very few online stores carry them at 
all?  Maryland Metric seems to have a complete selection, but 
ordering from them looks like a complete pain in and of itself--they 
don't even have a price list on their web site.  The technical 
question is this:  Would it be appropriate to substitute reusable 
pressure sealing washers such as these 
http://www.mcmaster.com/asp/DisplCtlgPage.asp?sesnextrep=413849085605974&ReqTyp=Catalog&CtlgEdition=110&CtlgPgNbr=3029 
for hard-to-find crush washers?  Specifically, the project du jour is 
a Milano power steering pump.

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV-6
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