Years ago, I used to pull every third pin, then tap the hole with a 1/4-28
thread all the way down. Insert a grade 8 long set screw with red locktite,
and stake the top to prevent it from backing out. This is how we locked the
rotor gear from walking out of the rotor without having it snap ringed. I
was just too cheap to give my money to racing beat back then, and didn't
have my own machine shop to cut snap ring grooves!
We don't turn enough rpm to need this on the aircraft engines, but fun to
look in the rotors at the meat available for mods.
Larry

Hi Larry!

How did you pull out the spring pins?
Regards, Werner.

Werner,
Larry hasn't replied yet, by my posts, but I couldn't help but say with
GREAT DIFFICULTY, unless he has a system and I guess the bigger they are,
the easy they are to tap and get a screw into them for pulling.
George (down under)



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