Here's a valve keeper installation tool to help with the really fiddly job of installing keepers. Zim (a simplification of the founder's last name Zimmerman) started in business around the end of WW1, over the years they made many specialty mechanic's tools, particularly for rebuilding engines. Alloy Artifacts notes they were recently taken over by A&E Manufacturing of Racine Wi.
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| Thanks, Rick! Good luck with the engine rebuild... |
4 comments:
I'm puzzled, never seen this and can't find a video demo of it.
Stick the keepers on with a dab of grease, problem solved, no ?
What am I missing ?
JP, here are a couple of pictures. Looks like it's meant to be used on flathead (?) engines? Sorry if my terminology is wrong.
I can sort of visualize it in use...would be a dance between letting the spring down enough to break the hold of the magnets vs letting the spring apply too much pressure it cocks the keeper.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0QQAAOSw5XhnRNG4/s-l1600.webp
https://ia800101.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/21/items/zim-mfg-catalog-at-18/Zim%20Mfg%20Catalog%20AT-18_jp2.zip&file=Zim%20Mfg%20Catalog%20AT-18_jp2/Zim%20Mfg%20Catalog%20AT-18_0010.jp2&id=zim-mfg-catalog-at-18&scale=4&rotate=0
Thanks Dave, looks indeed like a flathead that's illustrated.
Still, a slightly greased keeper will stay perfectly stuck in its groove all by itself, and the grease'll help the spring retainer lock it in place nicely. I can't see the point of this tool, but that could be a failure of imagination on my part.
Maybe that's why there isn't a set in every toolbox!
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