Help me with nomenclature.
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Posted by: CCR5600Design ® 04/23/2008, 12:02:34 Author Profile eMail author Edit

Hi folks, Many, many years ago, when I worked in a machine shop, we used to rebuild cylinder heads for engines. The cylinder head machine we used required the valve guide to be perpendicular to the work table so as to machine the valve guide boss at the proper angle for installation of new guides. As many cylinder heads have valve angles that are not perpindicular to the sealing surface of the head, we inserted a tool into the valve guide as we set up the machine to determine when the valve guide was positioned vertically. It has been many years and I have forgotten the name of this tool. Does anyone have any ideas what the proper nomenclature for this device is? Thanks in advance, Ron "What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible." - Theodore Roethke

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Posted by: randykimball ® 04/23/2008, 22:08:48 Author Profile eMail author Edit

... I recall it as the valve guide alignment mandrel. .. You have taken me back a few years. I learned to use that machine while in Navy "A" school. I used it a few times in the Navy and a couple of times soon after that.... then it vanished into the inner space of lost brain cells to be recovered in a heart beat by an e-mail almost 40 years later.... the human mind is an amazing thing. The worst suggestion of your lifetime may be the catalyst to the grandest idea of the century, never let suggestions go unsaid nor fail to listen to them.

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