Re: Storage of Engines

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

I too would store it BEFORE doign any machine work. A few .010's of iron
is good protection for the (after boring) new cylinder walls. I would
also use a rust preventative like everyone says, on the OLD cyl walls
and surfaces. Besides the chance of newly-machined surfaces rusting in
storage, there's a chance you won't use the block, and machining costs
would have been wasted.

A clean-out, followed by inspection, documentation (photograph every
surface and flaw!) and preservation would really make that thing
valueable in the future -- imagine in a decade pulling out an "unknown"
block and finding it inspected, with notes and measurements and photos. 


On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 02:54, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> CRC makes  'Mil-Spec' coatings for machinery
> to be stored - outside if need be.
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> any good machine shop should have an aerosol oil used for preserving
> freshly cut surfaces.  it looks thin, and you don't need much, but
> it
> sticks and keeps air out.  my engine friend uses it, and if the block
> will
> be stored for any time he duct-tapes a trash bag around it.
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