Abstract: A gauging system for checking a valve seat and a valve guide of an engine part, the system comprising: a gauge support mountable to a stable platform; a gauge which, in use, depends from the gauge support and has a gauge head for seating on the valve seat and insertion into the valve guide; a balancing mechanism to seat the gauge on the valve seat with a predetermined load, the valve seat providing the datum for the gauge; a motor to rotate the gauge head with respect to the valve seat and valve guide.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 26, 2005
Date of Patent:
September 12, 2006
Assignee:
Fenn Engineering Limited
Inventors:
Glenn Firmin, Paul Garland, Mark Sutton, Erdogan Zor