Bob,
I don't know the specifics, but I have a knife edge crank in the 948 race
engine for the Bugeye vintage racer. The crank was done by Joe Huffaker and
the counterweights do have a triangular shape.
I think Vizards book has info on this though.
Gerard
At 4:01 AM -0500 2/24/00, Bkitterer@aol.com wrote:
>List,
>
>While at the machine shop today saw an article on 1275 cranks which claimed
>that these cranks had to much weight around the journal center lines. That
>this extra weight caused uneven bearing wear. It was interesting because
>they pictures of this wear was a very good match to the odd wear patterns on
>the bearing that we just removed. The suggested solution was to remove
>counter weight material near the journals yielding a more triangular shaped
>counter weight. Anyone heard of this or tried it??
>
>Bob and Annice
>1960 Sprite (Mk IV indiguise)
>1966(7) Sprite Mk III (in progress)
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