DANMAS@aol.com wrote:
> Chris:
>
> You may be right - it's been many years since I had a materials class, and I
> didn't pay a whole lot of attention then - but I have always thought about it
> a litttle differently.
Well, it was more than a few years ago that I had the class, so I may
have gotten it mixed up...
> maybe I will go bore a hole in a piece of metal, toss it in the freezer, and
> see if the fit to a bolt which has been kept at room temperature is looser or
> tighter (hopefully, someone else will beat me to it and report back to the
> group so I won't have to!).
Let me know the results! You've got me wondering now too. Of course,
there's also the (possible) material differences between pistons and
rings and blocks to consider also.
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