deere_x475guy
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Hi gang, I thought I would post some pics of the progress so far. I still have a bit to go as you can see but things are going pretty well. It spins freely at this point and I have high hopes I will have my first engine completed soon.
What do you think of my allen wrench ???. I thought for sure I had one that would fit a 4-40 from my RC Helicopter days. This morning I went to find it. Well sure enough I seemed to have every size known to man expect this one. I went to the hardware store and they wanted $20.00 for a set. I'm to tight to spend that kind of money without a fight so I returned home to the shop and set about trying to figure out what I was going to do. First I found the smallest one I had...which I seemed to have several of. Then I tried carefully making it smaller with my sander. That didn't turn out to well as I am sure you all can image. Then suddenly I realized I had 6 sided 5C block. So I took a 10/32 socket head cap screw and got to work with the surface grinder.
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That's it for now.
It didn't take long to make and works fine. Guess when pushed I same a dime here and there...))..Not sure the wife would agree. ;D
Also to make the radius on both ends of the valve rod I turned a couple of pieces of drill rod to 2 sizes then sanded them down.
What do you think of my allen wrench ???. I thought for sure I had one that would fit a 4-40 from my RC Helicopter days. This morning I went to find it. Well sure enough I seemed to have every size known to man expect this one. I went to the hardware store and they wanted $20.00 for a set. I'm to tight to spend that kind of money without a fight so I returned home to the shop and set about trying to figure out what I was going to do. First I found the smallest one I had...which I seemed to have several of. Then I tried carefully making it smaller with my sander. That didn't turn out to well as I am sure you all can image. Then suddenly I realized I had 6 sided 5C block. So I took a 10/32 socket head cap screw and got to work with the surface grinder.
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That's it for now.
It didn't take long to make and works fine. Guess when pushed I same a dime here and there...))..Not sure the wife would agree. ;D
Also to make the radius on both ends of the valve rod I turned a couple of pieces of drill rod to 2 sizes then sanded them down.