Broken fuel/air mix needle?

[mro]

Was cleaning/checking out my flat side carbs after work last night and found that there was a broken pin stuck in #4. Tried the "push pin" tip, no go.., so bright idea made a tool to push stuck pin out, steel used not hard enough...

Then found a broken "tap" in my tool box and stuck it in my drill press and ground a point (.064 mm) .. held it in carb with small vise grip, gave it a light tap with a wrench and pin popped out easily.

Think tool might would work if I welded pointy tap to it. Steel tap is made of much harder steel than what I had used on tool.



mro

[Ken Talbot]

Interesting concept, MRO. What did you use to grind down the tap?

[mro]

Die grinder cut off wheel. With drill press spinning, the air powered die grinder makes short work of tap.

Then last few thousandsth finished with dremal while tap still spinning in press.


mro