On 4/8/2010 11:13 AM, john niolon wrote:
> I'm still trying to press in some steel sleeved bushings into tubular control
> arms for a front suspension I'm doing on my old truck. Having a devil of a
> ... the control arm bore is mic'ing 1.250 +/- .002 the bushings are anywhere
> from 1.260 to 1.268. No two measure the same. It's a steel sleeve with
> rubber core over a inner steel sleeve that the suspension bolt slides
That sounds awfully tight, even assuming the parts are perfectly round,
or able to deform to round. A chamfered edges help a lot too. But I'm
not a machinist or engineer. I did google "interference fit tolerance"
and found this one near the top of the list:
http://www.engineersedge.com/class_v.htm
-Wayne
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