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Lew_Merrick_PE:
Andy,

Back in the 70's I did a valve job on my aunt's car. I was just torquing down the head when a (formally licensed) Master heavy-duty mechanic buddy stopped by. We backed the beastie out of the garage and finished up connecting things. Another buddy who was an NHRA track mechanic showed up as we were refilling the fluids. My neighbor's 10 year old son wandered by to watch.

We were set to go and started cranking. RRR, rrr, RRR, rrr, nothing. "Oh, <bleep> I must have installed the cam 180° out!" 20 minutes of flashing wrenches to check that everything was good in that department. RRR, rrr, RRR, nothing. We tried this, we tried that, nothing.

My neighbor's kid picks up the rotor that was sitting in the wheel well cover and asks, "Doesn't this go somewhere?"

Stilldrillin:
Andy.
There's a 16mm collet in my mill, at the moment....... Could that be it? :scratch:

Started using it this morning. Hope to re start, tomorrow morning. If it's all right with you?

Will send it home, after the job's done..... Ok? :thumbup:

David D

shipto:
The problem is these metal coloured tools are camo'd against the metal you put them on, they should colour them all pink :ddb:

andyf:
I still can't find the bloody thing. It was only wanted to grip a 16mm diameter on something I didn't want to mark while working on the other end, and to save me the bother of truing it up in the 4-jaw.

I had to use the 4-jaw with a bit of aluminium food container for padding, in the expectation that the errant collet would show up as soon as it was no longer needed, but it's still hiding.

So, if those promised by John S and David are ER25's, I'll keep an eye out for them in the post :lol:

Andy

Anywaystiing it

Stilldrillin:
Andy.
So sorry your runaway is still playing games. :bang:

But! On the bright side, you've saved me postage costs. :thumbup:

The one I'm using is R8......... :)

Hope the little tinker shows up, soon.

David D

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