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Test report on valve dimensions for a B.80 unit after a 50-hour engine run.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 124\1\  scan0121
Date  22th May 1939 guessed
  
B. 80 UNIT N°3
VALVE DIMENSIONS.
PASSED TO TEST:-
COMPLETED TEST:-
RUNNING TIME:- 50 HRS
MILEAGE:-
CYLINDER HEAD:- E.B.4098
INLET VALVES:- E.B. 3853
EXHAUST VALVES:- E.B. 3854.
LENGTH
1.000" Dia "A"
1.250" Dia "B"
POCKETING

TABLE OF DIMENSIONS:
N° | LENGTH: BEFORE, AFTER, DIFFERENCE | Dia. "A": BEFORE, AFTER, WEAR | Dia. "B": BEFORE, AFTER, WEAR

INLET
1 | 4.383, 4.3837, .0007 | .3422, .3421, .0001 | .3422, .3421, .0001
2 | 4.384, 4.3847, .0007 | .3422, .3421, .0001 | .3422, .342, .0002
3 | 4.376, 4.375, .001 | .3422, .342, .0002 | .34225, .3422, .00005
4 | 4.385, 4.383, .002 | .3422, .3421, .0001 | .3422, .342, .0002
5 | 4.384, 4.383, .001 | .3422, .342, .0002 | .3422, .3419, .0003
6 | 4.385, 4.383, .002 | .3422, .3421, .0001 | .3422, .3421, .0001
7 | 4.380, 4.381, .001 | .3421, .3419, .0002 | .3421, .342, .0001
8 | 4.384, 4.384, | .3422, .3421, .0001 | .3422, .3421, .0001

EXHAUST
1 | 4.905, 4.904, .001 | .372, .3718, .0002 | .3719, .3713, .0006
2 | 4.906, 4.905, .001 | .372, .3718, .0002 | .372, .3713, .0007
3 | 4.910, 4.909, .001 | .3718, .3716, .0002 | .3718, .3711, .0007
4 | 4.910, 4.910, | .372, .3718, .0002 | .372, .3712, .0008
5 | 4.912, 4.912, | .3719, .3717, .0002 | .3721, .3715, .0006
6 | 4.910, 4.9102, .0002 | .372, .3719, .0001 | .3721, .3716, .0005
7 | 4.895, 4.895, | .372, .3719, .0001 | .372, .3718, .0002
8 | 4.906, 4.9055, .0005 | .372, .3719, .0001 | .372, .3714, .0006

POCKETING.
N° | BEFORE, AFTER, DIFFERENCE | BEFORE, AFTER, DIFFERENCE
1-8 | [All cells empty]
  
  
From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).


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