Poor Head Workmanship

From: Jerome Yuzyk (jerome(at)supernet.ab.ca)
Date: Thu Sep 25 1997 - 22:41:24 CDT

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This question is also posed on Jerome's Sunbeam Pages at
http://www.tgx.com/bridge/sunbeam/section/queries.htm
and I post it here to keep the answers available to the List.

The first time I reset my rocker clearances I got a flashlight and
peered down the rocker arm channels. I was surprised to see no attempt
at machining any edges, and (at the time) shocked to see a 2" stalagmite
of aluminum hanging down into one channel. Since then I've seen a similar
"finger" in an Austin-Healy head. Is this sloppy work, market pressures,
the state of British metallurgy in 1962 or no big deal at all?

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