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Jun/Jul 2008Subscribe NowEngine videos online! Check out the GEM video index on YouTube, the quickest way to find gas engine videos on the Internet. We’ve done the searching, all you have to do is the watching! Click below for GEM engine video index. |
SmokStakThe Art of Scraping BabbittBy Harry MatthewsThe following comes from a recent topic on SmokStak, which can be found on the Internet at: www.engineads.com/smokstak.cgi. As ever, various individuals started, commented on and concluded the following bulletin board thread. Scraping babbitt is something I have never seen or done, and I'd like to hear from people who have so I can learn how it's done. I have bought some tools I believe to be scraper tools -they look like files with no teeth. Let's see if we all can learn something new. - Kevin I have seen it done by skilled craftsman, and it's not a process for the impatient. I have watched it done during the rebuild of a precision surface grinder, and there are no shortcuts. The craftsman uses a straight surface such as a granite bar or plate, and he covers the surface with bluing paste and slides the part on t... 804 of 7728 characters shown.
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