Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:16 am
There are two main areas that need to be cleaned up on the type 4 26mm pump. The outer plate that plugs in is simple to lap. Just pull the steel locating tube out that goes around one stud and lap it.
The hard part is lapping inside the deck of the main pump body. To do this, I will pull all four studs....then go to a machine shop and have a steel plate made...possibly a delrin plate. I have not decided yet. It will have a hole dead center. It will be machiend dead flat on one side and be within .002" of the exact inside diameter of the pump body ledge.....with sides sloped back on the disc so as not to wear the side walls of the body. Then put a mandrel in the hole in the center so I can turn it by hand.
I can apply fine git paper to the bottom flat side...or simply use lapping paste. Lap the two gears elsewhere to make surethey are dead even in height.
With the mandrel and disk...we will only be lapping the inside of the body.
The areas the gear sit into can be lapped smooth with an old gear and a disc or .010 steel shim stock glued to the bottom...with lapping compund underneath.
I don't think it will be that hard. Ray
The hard part is lapping inside the deck of the main pump body. To do this, I will pull all four studs....then go to a machine shop and have a steel plate made...possibly a delrin plate. I have not decided yet. It will have a hole dead center. It will be machiend dead flat on one side and be within .002" of the exact inside diameter of the pump body ledge.....with sides sloped back on the disc so as not to wear the side walls of the body. Then put a mandrel in the hole in the center so I can turn it by hand.
I can apply fine git paper to the bottom flat side...or simply use lapping paste. Lap the two gears elsewhere to make surethey are dead even in height.
With the mandrel and disk...we will only be lapping the inside of the body.
The areas the gear sit into can be lapped smooth with an old gear and a disc or .010 steel shim stock glued to the bottom...with lapping compund underneath.
I don't think it will be that hard. Ray