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Re: Specialized engine building equip

To: "Chris R Harris" <yesford@clear.net.nz>, <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>,
Subject: Re: Specialized engine building equip
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:24:56 -0600
You guys have some understanding wifes...  I used the oven to crinkle paint
a Part on Miss Kathy's bugeye and still haven't heard the last of it.... Let
alone oiling her down...

I did get a hand sticking the Air handler up in the attic the other day...
but when she smashed a finger on the staircase.... well nevermind... you get
the picture.... I am still being shown JUST which one it was....

some girls just got no appreciation for the finer things in life...

Keith ( hey Bruce it's supposed to snow down here tomarrow... should I get
my axle bearings ready? )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris R Harris" <yesford@clear.net.nz>
To: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>; <kturk@ala.net>; <ddahlgren@snet.net>;
<lsr_man@yahoo.com>
Cc: <jdincau@qnet.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 5:03 PM
Subject: Specialized engine building equip


> If its confession time with regard to the use of household appliances and
> fittings for engine building, the best place to wash a crank before use is
> in the bath. Just lay a clean section of ply-wood in first to stop the
> counterweights marking the porcelain and go for it. Plenty of fresh clean
> hot water on hand for washing and rinsing, easy to totally submerge the
> whole shaft. You would be amazed at the crap the that comes out of the oil
> drillings from a core brush scrubbing. The other cheap household item that
> works real good is one of those rounded toilet brushes for scrubbing
freshly
> machined cylinder bores. Your wife never fails to be impressed initially
> when you show up from the store with this item under your arm and a grin
on
> your face.
>
> Chris Harris   NZ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <FastmetalBDF@aol.com>
> To: <kturk@ala.net>; <ddahlgren@snet.net>; <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <jdincau@qnet.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 8:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Flash Back protectors
>
>
> >        Keith, you said you couldn' t imagine putting a ring gear on a
> flywheel
> > without a torch ....... well ( now don' t let Miss Kathy hear about
this )
> > that' s
> > what OVENS are for !!!    Just make sure the ring gear is  NICE & CLEAN
!
> >        You will get more EVEN heating all around the whole circumference
> > than you can with that torch !    I have used our oven very successfully
> to
> > warm axle bearings, both open and sealed, and drive them on the axle
with
> > a length of pipe, several blocks of wood, and a few hammer blows, when
> > no press was available . On one occasion, when Doug & Darrell were
> > "understudies" in my garage, we had the added benefit of a snowbank
> > next to my driveway to chill the axle in ( I do NOT think Mary Ann would
> > have gone along with me cleaning out the fridge to stuff an axle in
there
> ! ),
> > and it helped get the job done .    The oven also makes a nice preheater
> > for parts you wish to weld with less thermal shock to them, as when you
> just
> > strike an arc on them .  Remember the key thing ...... CLEAN  parts
only,
> > and better yet ...... do it while she' s  OUT  shopping  !!!
> >       Those few thousandths gained with the careful use of heat and cold
> > assisting each other can make all the difference ....... but of course
we
> all
> > know some parts can't be treated ( no pun intended ) this way !
> >        The submarine shipyard where I spent over a third of a century
> keeps
> > a large supply of  DRY  ICE  on hand for these very expansion fits that
> > they utilize on many components,  both large and small  .......
> >        You can also throw in one of those frozen ( cardboard ) pizzas
> > while you' re cooking your parts ...... now that's efficiency !
> >                        Bruce
> >        Necessity is the Mother of Invention
> > PS :   Messrs Barrett, Dincau, Vette Scoy can all disregard the snowbank
> > info ...... probably never seen one ....... sure won' t have one
available
> > .......
> > and you all got big presses, anyhow !

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