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Thanks I think you understand what I'm saying if I did it's to help others if not why waste the time and energy to photo, draw, and write about what you did??

Reading the post I see a couple of things that might help. 1 in non combustion engines orings, packings, and PTFE will probably work well for rings or for gasket, but will harden and become brittle in a combustion engine. 2 if you don't want to make your own cast iron rings I found hyd cyl...

I take it that it's air driven with brass cyl? You might want to try quad rings from hyd cyl they are more of a square o-ring so they tend to seal better, if they are a steel ring again try hyd steel piston rings. Motion Industries, Kamam Bearing are a couple of place to try to get what you...

Go to villagepress.com Live Steam in the Metalworking, on the second page of books about half way Down on the right $24.95

I don't buy that I've goggle a lot of things and found more than one of them, heck how do you think I found you!!! People join this groups for the knowledge not all people think the same and you can learn a lot from others as well as they can from you, that's why most of us are in multiple sites...

I have a problem with the fact it can only be submitted here at which point you can't use it in other groups. I have my own prints and photos of a Vari-drive conversion for a Bridgeport mill but I won't put it here alone I have other groups that it maybe useful to as well as a mag Model Engine...

When we made the cyl heads we used 4 points on the mate face of the head, then had post come in from the back to clamp to for machining the face. This was done last due to all the machining, pressing in the guides, and pressing in the seats with causes the head to twist and bend. If I remember...

If you are looking to Blacken as most tools are it's very simple with no heating of the tools. I've been using a couple different ones to do gun parts as well as my tools and it has a sealer to. The first one I tried was from Eastwood at http://www.eastwood.com/metal-blackening-system-set.html...

This is a spreadsheet with American, Metric, and the Torque by size and grade of the bolt.

If you email the company they will send you a full size wall chart, but I found this very useful.

The key was to have some very slight cutting marks so the surface is not perfectly smooth. I have heard (cannot prove and don't have any info on it) that perfectly smooth surfaces for heads fail due to lack of grip. You are right the key is not a smooth surface at General Motor this is what...

Over the years I've owned all types of calipers and mics I'm still using my 40 year old Craftsman 6" vernier though it's harder to read I mounted a magnifier light on the end of the bench this serves two jobs, one to read very small print on tool and the second for sliver removal. My latest is a...

I've found a lot of good buys on ebay, you just need to be careful of the seller and check him out. Most things I buy I try to use Paypal because they will help you get your money back from bad vendors. A lot of the tools I have are from retired co-workers that will never use them again if you...

I work in GM Powertrain engine plant we used a large insert mill on Aluminum because the did not want a glass smooth surface to many gaskets blown out. We also did iron heads with the same large insert cutters and depending on the head were Blanchard ground to size. What every you use has to cut...

I have a Reid 6 x 12 and a Brown & Sharpe 618 both have v-ways no gibs to lock the table. I can actually lift up the table on the Reid. You can probably use the table stops to hold it in place by running them together or making an adjustable stop you can then screw in tight you have a stop...

Reading the different post I thought I'd put in my two cents. When racing go-karts back in the 70's the first thing we did was insert a Heli-coil insert due to the threads striping out from high compression and a 3/4" length. In 93 I moved to GM Powertrian in Buffalo, NY and all the aluminum...

Thanks for all the work you put into the drawings and posting them for all of to use. I've started doing my drawings in Acad and found it's easier to use both dim english/metric the biggest problem is to not get over complicated so that it's hard to see what you need without getting confused...

My shop does the same when it warms everything sweats, I'm in the process of adding a furnace to help control the temp swings. What I've done in the mean time is keep a bottle of light spindle oil and a rag handy to wipe things down after use. I learned years ago it's not just sweat but acid...

Welcome aboard I like what you have post different with a piston base! Happy New Year to you. Todd

Nice job looks great! I see you are buying brass studs I did much the same on Ebay for stainless steel 4-40 5/8 set screws to use as studs on my 9 cyl and 18 cyl Radial from Lee's plans. To me it's a lot easier than trying to thread long studs or tie bars. Keep up the good work I'll keep...