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Design considerations for exhaust valve seats and guides for an 8-cylinder engine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 124\1\  scan0152
Date  14th June 1939
  
1044

To By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell}

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} 1/MH. {M. Huckerby} 14.6.39.

ALUM 8-CYLINDER HIGH POWER 3.25 BORE.

Replying to the queries raised in By {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /CS.1/EH.9.6.39.

Item (3) - Exhaust valve seats.

Consider that press-in seats in Alum ARE too experimental and the unit should be started with screwed-in seats.

After approval of unit in general, we can try press-in seats.

Item (4) - Exhaust valve guides.

Consider unit should start life with 4 parallel fit guides with a shoulder and pressed-in from the bottom and 4 parallel guides without shoulder pressed in from the top.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell}
  
  
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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