Valve & Seating Work
Valve Seating
Valve seating is a common practice amongst engineering firms, most tend to use a machine to re-seat their valves, but we do not! Hand lapping has been in our company since we started and do not intend in changing. We find that using a machine to lap your valves in may be quicker and easier but can sometimes not be sufficient enough to seat them & most of the time is a noisy and unpleasant way of getting the job done. As well as using good old-fashioned techniques we use what we think is the best grinding paste compound out there from Loctite, which has to be shipped in from the U.S.A.
Seat Cutting
Valve Seat Cutting is a specialised job that we carry out in house. We use a special machine called a “Mira Centronic” which uses a metal magnetic base, with very intelligent tech inside the “Mira” it lets itself centralize to the valve seat in question and can give a perfect cut. After we have done this process we can fit your new valve seat and machine it down to size in our crank grinder to give a true fit. We use Loctite to bond the seat to the machined area and give it a lapping-in / re-seat to get your valve to vac up again.