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Old 10-01-2024, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by hurryinhoosier62 View Post
Spray welding is used in turbine engine components, not recip engine components. Oversize cam bores and main saddles are weld then machined back to standard in aircraft recip engines.
I said aircraft and got you all excited didn't I... I have seen it used in places you have not described having spent 34 years in fighter and bomber aircraft production and flight test

a thin metallic layer applied to a pontiac cam bearing shell theoretically would tighten it up..

it seems as though there is a more mainstream resolution in work for the noted cam bearing

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