Dumbo The Flying Elephant

[Larry Hill]

The Total Seal Ring Grinder was my Christmas, Birthday, and Anniversary gift all rolled into one. Talk about a thoughtful wife. The Total Seal piece is very predictable. If you need another .005" to make target on your ring gap it will do it. It does a good job on on the oil rails too but I can not be heavy handed.
Back to work

[Larry Hill]

Rings are done, I think. I still may have to adjust pull on the oil rails. So far everything has been coming in the shop just in time. Its been fun working on some different aspects of trying to go fast, but I still have more questions than answers.

[Larry Hill]

After checking the top ring it the smaller ring compressor it showed that the ends were butted against each other SOOooooo

I am having to make a ring compressor because the one I ordered got delayed in shipping. Thanks Fed X. I did not have enough material to make a real one just enough to install the piston with the oil ring to check drag.

[Larry Hill]

I got a morning email around 10:30 am or so it stated the package will be delivered by 1:30 pm. We get a different email now stating delivery by end of day. I would guess the ability for fictional writing would be paramount for the interviewing process for a customer service at FedX. It is 5:30 pm and no package today but it was promised yesterday Friday. But what I made worked. The hard part was picking up the angel of the taper, based on the compound it's close to 4.xx degrees. I feel just like Dumbo, working for peanuts.

[Larry Hill]

Got my new expanders from Mahle. It helped the oil ring pull.