8BA Rod Measurements

[Walt Dupont--Me.]

Originally Posted by Karl Wolf

You HAVE to torque the rods to the torque you're going to use before they can be measured... A LOT of the flathead rods I've seen seem have been relieved at the parting line (I don't want to say alll)... This has doesn't make any functional difference, What matters is the shape of the rest rod that holds the bearing...
When I first worked in a shop, one of my jobs was to grind flathead rod caps... There is a way to grind them so as to get the sides of the rods to suck in a bit when they're torqued... But I don't like it much, any one wants to know can ask...
Karl

Yes Karl, it's called angle grinding, you put the cap in the cap grinder and put a feeler guage on one side, grind one side then flip it over do the same on the other side, It does pull the sides toghter, but I wouldn't worry about on a flathead. Walt