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Re: A Wallaby of my own.
« Reply #870 on: December 17, 2018, 02:28:23 AM »
Engine is really shaping up, Dave! It's good to hear the healing is going well. Takes a while but you'll get there.

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« Reply #871 on: December 17, 2018, 02:38:46 AM »
Thanks Pete!    I think i might be paying fornit tomorrow,but thats ok.   

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« Reply #872 on: December 17, 2018, 03:23:06 AM »
Dave,
You are making good progress. Take it easy on the knee. I was wondering about the cylinder/piston clearance. I have usually aimed for .001 and have had good success with that. My engines have been air cooled though & I don't know how much difference that makes. Great work!
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« Reply #873 on: December 17, 2018, 11:07:25 AM »
Westbury suggested .006 at the crown though that seems.excessive....this is water cooled.

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« Reply #874 on: December 17, 2018, 08:06:35 PM »
Looking good  :praise2:  :praise2: As I understand it the piston clearance with aluminium pistons depends on the alloy  :headscratch: I had to keep increasing the clearances on my horizontal engine due to piston pick up.
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« Reply #875 on: December 17, 2018, 10:40:58 PM »
Looking good  :praise2:  :praise2: As I understand it the piston clearance with aluminium pistons depends on the alloy  :headscratch: I had to keep increasing the clearances on my horizontal engine due to piston pick up.

Yes absolutely varies with alloy...but its the difference in temperature that im not sure of.   Im going to check another well thought out design that i have plans for...and ill fill ya in
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« Reply #876 on: December 17, 2018, 11:29:40 PM »
Under the heading of "Something every day"...I decked the block to height + 0.005.   I'll finish it on the Aciera....it's more accurate

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Re: A Wallaby of my own.
« Reply #877 on: December 18, 2018, 12:27:20 AM »
Hope the leg isn't paying too much today Dave.

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« Reply #878 on: December 18, 2018, 01:08:32 AM »
 :zap:  leg  cramps.....in my thigh.
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« Reply #879 on: December 18, 2018, 03:17:21 AM »
Dave,
Do you have stretches & PT you're needing to do? & does it help when you stand a lot to do them. The piston for the Upshur vertical single I made to whatever the prints said with an unnamed stick of aluminum. VAL I held to a .001 using 2024.
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« Reply #880 on: December 18, 2018, 03:29:45 AM »
Looking good Dave.

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« Reply #881 on: December 18, 2018, 03:34:51 PM »
The design I was looking at had a cast iron sleeve and a cast iron piston and 3 rings.   The piston was to be 0.001" under the nore size.  I have a few more references    ill keep looking
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« Reply #882 on: December 18, 2018, 08:05:11 PM »
That sounds better .003 & .006 just sounded rather large.
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« Reply #883 on: December 18, 2018, 08:25:40 PM »
Fer what it’s worth from here in old Springbucket: models aside; pretty much any engine I’ve ever put together was at around .001-.0015 at the skirt of the piston. Probably wasn’t the high tech way, but, we always inserted the piston in the bore backwards, without rings, and measured the clearance at the skirt with feeler gages. Of course we were just po country folks.

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Re: A Wallaby of my own.
« Reply #884 on: December 18, 2018, 09:00:56 PM »
If it works its right!


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