In a message dated 3/14/2006 10:29:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
BillB@bnj.com writes:
It's really easy to make buttons--I turn them from teflon. I hear delrin
works also. I don't know why I haven't used them in a Triumph motor. I
always use them in motorcycle engines.
==AM==
I found such buttons in the 1147 in my ex-GP Spitfire 4 autocrosser when I
needed to replace a broken ring. They seem to have done their job just fine
and for a number of years.
I first got that car in 1983. It had been abandoned at least five years
before that. I never opened up that motor until 1996, so the buttons had to
have
been there since sometime in the 1970s.
Of course, this is the same motor that I discovered had NO second
compression ring on any of the four pistons. An old "race engine builder's
trick," I'm
told. Guess it worked, but I was just as happy to redo the engine with
TotalSeal rings, which also worked just fine.
--Andy Mace
*Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet?
*Man: Well, no ... It's not so much of a jet, it's more your, er, Triumph
Herald engine with wings.
-- Cut-price Airlines Sketch, Monty Python's Flying Circus (22)
Check out the North American Triumph Sports 6 (Vitesse 6) and Triumph Herald
Database: _http://triumph-herald.us_ (http://triumph-herald.us/)
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