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Tom Stranko
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 05:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Picture of the piston going back in my "Emmons" .
Each 11/16 ring had to be replaced with two smaller rings that added up to 11/16. (Paul Weaver of Wash. State)You can see the locator pin
and how I had to file half round grooves in each ring to match. (actually, one ring is wider that the other so the "nicks" are not even)
Second picture was taken today. I had it running for a short time (indoors & no water) but it has
a HELL of a lot of compression now. The ring compressor is home made. Does your wife hate blue,stinky smoke too?
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Tom Stranko
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 05:02 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Tom Stranko
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 05:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

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Richard Day
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 09:00 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Beautiful job Tom. Bring it to the CMM show this next spring. Looks like a rare bird.
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richarddurgee
Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 09:45 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Tom,

Excellent work, was the original casting and flywheel that smooth of a finish or was a lot of filler, primer, and elbow grease required to get it that smooth ??

Its interesting how rough some of these external castings are. when restoring I always wonder how far to go in quality of finish,
what was OEM finish, and what would be considered over finishing ?? Any feed back appreciated.
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Tom Stranko
Posted on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:24 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Regarding the finish: absolutely nothing like this was ever sold commercially back then. I just do it on some engines that I take a shine to. I chuckle every time I remember the first time I sent Dick Day a picture of my restored RW1
Palmer. I polished the S--- out of the brass and painted it with what I thought were "old" (M&B era) Palmer colors. "IT"S SUPPOSED TO BE ALL GRAY!!! says Mr. Richard. Now, there is no way I was going to PAINT over all that neat brass. I guess I'm never going to be a purist.
The next engine in line is a 2 cyl Dunn 4 cycle.
I have decided to leave all the castings as rough
as they came from the factory (and believe me, they are ROUGH) so we will see how that one goes over. I might have to polish up the brass a bit
:-)
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Richard Day
Posted on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 08:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Tom, I never said the brass had to be painted. Where ever did that idea come from?
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Tom Stranko
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 08:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What I was saying was that I tend to be non-authentic in my outlook to restoration while you appear to be completly authentic.
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Richard Day
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 08:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Ok now we are on the same page. I do try to be as authentic as possible and when I cannot I make a point of indicating the change isn't authentic. Regards,

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