<VV> New Product Needed?? opinions needed !

[John Beck]

It's an interesting idea Ken.  One thing to consider is that there are
several different styles of air hose connections.  I deal with three
pretty frequently.  You might be better off to terminate your product in
a NPT and let people add whatever air fitting they use in their shop. 
--J.B.

Ken Campbell wrote:
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> From: "corvairs" <lonwall at corvairunderground.com>
> 
> Hi LonWall-San
> I am picking on you because you are probably flat on your back with lots of
> time to think, while you are soaking up pity and body massages from all your
> friends there .. (g ) ... oh, yeah, and partly because we highly value your
> considerable opinions....
> 
> We are a small ma & pa job shop, we make about 300 different products,
> mostly 100-1000 each a year, and being fully cnc can do those short runs ...
> mostly to stay under the " buy it  from  China" problem... that isnt going
> away ( sigh )  ...
> 
> anyway, while playing with a stuck engine Oliver farm tractor, it has
> occured to us that a hollow spark plug might have some use as follows:   you
> take out the regular plug, then pour in a ring-soaker ( fuel oil, Marvel
> Mystery Oil, Liquid Wrench .. whatever ) then put in this new hollow spark
> plug and chuck it up to an air hose ( I will machine on a chucking feature )
> with about 50 lbs pressure ( to be determined ) which will try to force the
> solventschtick past the stuck rings ... therebye unsticking that one
> cylinder faster ....  repeat for all cylinders, maybe one a day we hope ...
> 
> I need advice:
> 
> 1) ok, so J.C.Whitney probably already has this ... or snap-on?  anybody
> know?  We see that we could purchase a compression checker and cut off the
> tube, but still wouldn[t have the air chuck adapter ...
> 2)  I think these could sell retail for maybe $5 area ...
> 3) there remains the hassle of having to relax the valves on most of the
> cylinders .. will anyone screw with that ( back off the rocker adjust? ) or
> is it too much hassle???
> 
> ********
> Would appreciate any and all inputs, any long comments perhaps better
> off-list at your discretion of getting a F. ticket from the F. list cops.
> 
> Thanks for the time.
> ken campbell, sweat shop owner and F. potty scrubber,  deltawerkes
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