Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #65855
From: Le Roux Breytenbach breytenbachleroux@gmail.com <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Lapping Plates
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 08:29:09 +0200
To: Fly Rotary Motors Group <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>


Hi: A friend of mine who is familiar with rotary engines, and also in the racing,told me that he lapp his end plates with “valve grinding paste”
I thoughts that i gonna give it a go.
So i used some old endplates for practice and experimenting with fine grit valve grinding compound ( waterbased).
It actually came out,very good with  little “reaching and markes” ,of the  old side and corner seals.
This was only about 5 to 8 minutes of rotating with the hand,with only the weight of the plate, and the fine grinding compound.I know that the 2 faces is not “match mates” but the surface is 200 % better off than “ just as it is.
I believe there is still sufficient chrome coating left as you can still see the old corner seals ”path” against the light.



Le Roux


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Le Roux Breytenbach
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