Engine Painting

I have to be emotive about some thing, I am at work! :-) , Just out of interest does anyone have pictures of various "show finsih" engines I am interested in the differances between the factory finsih and show finish.

rgds bob

Bob,

What I don't understand is why go to the expense of SS nuts and then paint them anyway.

Easily avoided. Hold the component in place and go round its outline with a craft knife. Scrape to that line before final assembly.

ttfn Roland

like here

I would rather my engine - a - perform well b - look good c - need the minimum of upkeep rather than keeping it original for the sake of it - as long as the differences are known. It is not, after all, a museum piece - museums are the places to preserve originality. In my opinion)

Ditto on gas turbine engines - as far as I know MOD specs do not preclude the use of SS. I've never had any problems using them when restoring cars and general machinery over the past twenty years or more.

Sounds to me like another "cheap products give problems" situation. The article mentioned below seems to imply that the greatest problem is in commerciall large scale assembly where high-speed assembly methods are being used. Not really applicable to rebuilding a stationary engine!