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Old 05-11-2021, 11:34 AM
Frank Reiner Frank Reiner is offline
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Originally Posted by Felching View Post
By doing that, you have destroyed the nozzles. They are machined to less than 0.000xx" tolerances. Adding a ten-thousandth to that by wearing them with that paste they are junk.
Pintles and holders are matched sets, if they are separated and lost track of their match they are worthless.
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Originally Posted by BillGrissom View Post
Sorry, I was thinking like a 'merican. Probably did mean mm. I think that polishing is what the OP intended to achieve and don't see how it could make an injector pintle worthless.
Note that Felching was indeed speaking in inches [ " ]. One one-hundredth (.00001") or one one-tenth(.0001") of one one-thousandth of an inch(.001") is, for the purposes of this discussion, polishing.
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