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Old 12-16-2009, 04:23 PM
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Default RayAracing Resizing Tooling

Originally Posted by helivaguy
excellent results due to excellent tooling
dion also does a nice job refinishing the piston and sleeve surfaces.
ray i wish your tooling was more affordable
In short making my tooling more affordable would compromise the quality.

There are many ways one can bend, dent, or shrink the sleeve alloys in order to make the piston + sleeve fit feel tighter ( a process the racers have been experimenting with for 30 + years) But reconstructing (reforming) the nitro engine sleeve alloys to accurately + uniformly adjust for the just a few tenths of one thousandth an inch piston wear requires a tool ( resizing die) as accurate as the process we intend to perform. The intended achieved results here in resizing leave very little room for error. Dilon invested well with purchasing good tooling, has got good experience with it, and I am glade to see his own customer base growing.

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