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peterogborne
Senior Member
Username: peterogborne
Post Number: 232
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 07:27 am: | 
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I have been fortunate in obtaining some spun cast iron cylinders of various diameters . I have made one set of rings for small Cooper RT engine . The method i used was to turn the OD to the cylinder size ,cut the gap and spring open with a spacer . I then heated to a cherry red in a jewellers electric kiln . The end result is perfect . Now for some other re ring jobs!
Interested to hear of others attempts to make rings. |
andrew
Moderator
Username: andrew
Post Number: 1050
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 05:31 pm: |
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Peter,
Sounds good.
I seem to recall that someone posted a link to an article on piston ring "construction"... I can't find it now... anyone remember? |
john chamberlain
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| | Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 - 11:37 pm: |
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try this
http://www.btinternet.com/~sylvestris/rings/rings.htm |
peterogborne
Senior Member
Username: peterogborne
Post Number: 233
Registered: 09-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 19, 2005 - 06:12 am: |
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I recall "Ernie'' had a very good posting on piston rings some time ago.
The rings i made were approximately 2inches in diam . I am now going to make a set of rings for my Stuart Turner P55.
Tubal Cains ..diam plus .002'' is fine but i machined diam to bore size and ''spread''by by heating evenly in a small kiln |
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