Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Oddly SatisfyingEnglish · 9 days agoFlattening the head of an engine blockimgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up143arrow-down10
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minus-squareTreczokslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoThe question is: when they need eight passes to get the head back to plane, how bad is the rest of the block?
minus-squareJunkers_Klunker@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoNot necessarily that bad if it’s a closed deck iron block. If it’s a modern open deck aluminium block, yea that’s a different story.
minus-squareJunkers_Klunker@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoBut the reason they take that many passes is to ease up the final pass, you don’t want to remove more than absolutely necessary.
The question is: when they need eight passes to get the head back to plane, how bad is the rest of the block?
Not necessarily that bad if it’s a closed deck iron block. If it’s a modern open deck aluminium block, yea that’s a different story.
But the reason they take that many passes is to ease up the final pass, you don’t want to remove more than absolutely necessary.