<VV> New Product Needed?? opinions needed !

corvairs lonwall at corvairunderground.com
Sun Aug 13 23:37:23 EDT 2006


Hey Ken!  LOTS of answers required and my typing is Baaaaad. Give me a 
call 503-434-1648 and we can talk about it! thanks, Lon

Ken Campbell wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>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???
>
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>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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