I got to play around about another 3 hours on the project this morning.
I was going to make "one" set of inserts, but thought I might as
well flip the bronze over and whittle down the other side to
have a spare set of inserts ready. I have both fit to width
and the bore chamfered so the insert seats on the rod journal.
Will have to heat up and un-solder the set I’m going to use,
touch up the ends on the belt sander, then ream the ID to finished size
to fit the crank nice. I wrote a note so I don’t forget to drill
the oil hole in the upper insert. 🙄
Also the old inserts had some oil grooves file in them on the
sides of the inserts. Guess I’ll put those back in as well.
Hoping to finish up on these inserts tomorrow, and wishing
I didn’t have 3-1/2 hours of lawn mowing to do as well. 🙁
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