4 Ways to Produce an Ideal Cylinder Head Surface Finish
Produce an ideal cylinder head finish with these four tips: 1. Dress and True the Wheel, 2. Use the Proper Wheel Speed, 3. Use Grinding Fluid, 4. Select Top Quality Abrasives.
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Increase the life of your crankshaft polisher with routine maintenance
Help stop premature motor failure by simply spending a few seconds every day to perform routine maintenance on your polisher.
- Use regulated compressed air or a vacuum to remove abrasive and metal particles that have accumulated in the electric motor during normal operation.
- Remove frayed belt threads that collect on roller bearings.
6 Ways to Improve Flywheel Grinding Stone Performance
Use these tips to get better results, longer stone life and lower-cost flywheel grinding.
1) Match the stone to the material.
Most American automotive flywheels are cast iron. Most truck, bus and agricultural flywheels are cast steel. High-performance and a few import flywheels are billet steel.
The Hows & Whys of Measuring Rod Bolt Stretch
Most engine rod failures aren’t from faulty parts, they’re from improper installation. When you’re installing the rods you need to check the rod bolt stretch by performing a series of torqueing and loosening and recording the readings. It sounds like a lot of work, but in the end, it will save you time and the possibility of a failed engine rod along with all of the damage that can cause.Micrometer best practices
We’re going to back up a little to something that’s an essential skill to have in engine machining or any kind of machining for that matter.
You MUST know how to operate and read and care for a micrometer. It sounds, elementary, I know, but sometimes it pays to go back to the basics for a quick review. For the sake of this article, I’ll be talking about an inch micrometer. Most people think of an outside micrometer when they hear the term “micrometer”. An “outside micrometer” is one that measures the outside of something such as diameter, length, thickness.
Measure, Machine, Measure Will Save You Time In The Shop
One of the things that I stressed to my students when I taught at Austin Technical College was the importance of measuring BEFORE starting to machine. Many of my students didn’t get why they should go through all of that trouble. After all, measuring isn’t fun. Machining is. My answer to them was (and still is) how are you going to know what you have if you don’t measure up front?Take Care of Your Measuring Tools And They Will Take Care of You
Back when I was teaching at Riverland Community College (Austin, Minnesota) my students found that one of the easiest ways to get me steamed was to not take care of their measuring tools. A machinist is only as good as his tools and that extends to his (or her) measuring tools.There’s Nothing Boring About Boring Bar Maintenance
By David Monyhan, (retired)
You know the feeling: the machine you want, you can’t afford, and the machine you can afford you already have. Don’t you wish, just once, you could call up the sales representative and say “My turn, send me one of those new ‘XYZ’ machines?”
The Art of Relationship Maintenance
by David Monyhan (retired)
Over the past few years, I’ve written quit a few articles on how to maintain your shop machinery, but now its time to talk about how to maintain your relationships with your customer. Let’s face it…without customers we are out of business. You’ve probably heard the old saying, “all machine shops are alike and that’s just the way it is!”
I don’t think so Tim!
All machine shops are not created equal.