Great job. Also nice to see you using a 4 jaw chuck. The younger generations don't have the patience or in a lot of instances the ability to dial in a part on a 4 jaw.
John
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The machine shops I worked in only had four jaw chucks. Nice looking job. Did you get the o-ring dimensions/tolerances out of a Machinist Bible?
Don
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Nice work! I'm sure you won't have any issues with leaks with those 3 0-rings. Might be a bit of overkill there.
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I have been working on this stuff for 70 years & have worked on hundreds of 292 engines in fleets of step vans but I can't imagine any use for a "distributor block off plate".
George
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Very nice work, HRL would call it "Eye Candy" for being polished, but I like it
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Actually, I'd call it a very fancy substitute for an expandable rubber freeze plug. It makes as much sense as the rest of that engine does. LOL! Jerry
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I have been working on this stuff for 70 years & have worked on hundreds of 292 engines in fleets of step vans but I can't imagine any use for a "distributor block off plate".
George
Sometimes, you want to drive the distributor in a non-standard place.
And sometimes you want to completely do away with a distributor. With a crank trigger ignition you have no gears, chains, or shafts to get slack from wear and unless you twist the crankshaft the timing is always dead on.
I'm no machinist. I just recently bought my lathe. This is the first thing I made from scratch. I just slowly snuck up on it and went off some A/N fittings I have. Certainly over kill but what the heck. I put a larger o ring on top. I will have a vacuum in my crank case.
You didn't just buy a lathe, your bought a very nice lathe...
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Also nice to see you using a 4 jaw chuck. The younger generations don't have the patience or in a lot of instances the ability to dial in a part on a 4 jaw.
