RE: Head Gaskets/Shims for Pee Wee .020
To: bsindel
Good job for picking up a major issue. I was going to bring this up last night when I wrote the post but it was getting late and I was already concerned about confusing everyone. In a manufacturing situation, there would be an automatic operation whereby a plunger would protrude out through the punch to expell any shims stuck in the groove. For the home workshop, you could slot the sides of the punch so you could stick a small probe on each side of the punch to push out all stuck shims. Making this tooling is a lot of work but we do this in the
manufacturing world also.
If any of you make a punching device, please let me know how it works for you.
Regards,