Re: ' want to measure your own pistons for washer thicknesse
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 8:29 pm
I believe that you did outline the procedure here some time ago. I was inspired by it. There's also a pretty good account of it in the Allied catalog, but I suppose posting that would be a copyright infringement.
You don't even really need the special tool to do it. I made a poor man's version out of steel rod (it's actually about an 1/8" diameter loom needle from some junk my son bought at an auction) by bending it into an L shape and adding a zip tie slider to it. It seems to work fine -- with the HF digital caliper, of course.
The special tool is a bit niftier and maybe a bit more precise -- depending on how much effort you put into your home-made version.
What I really want is a bore scope that's cheap enough and also small enough to work in the required places. Lots of uses for one of those.
You don't even really need the special tool to do it. I made a poor man's version out of steel rod (it's actually about an 1/8" diameter loom needle from some junk my son bought at an auction) by bending it into an L shape and adding a zip tie slider to it. It seems to work fine -- with the HF digital caliper, of course.
The special tool is a bit niftier and maybe a bit more precise -- depending on how much effort you put into your home-made version.
What I really want is a bore scope that's cheap enough and also small enough to work in the required places. Lots of uses for one of those.