Summary

00:00 - Carl has asked, where do you remove material from the small ends of the connecting rod while balancing? OK that's actually quite a good question Carl because obviously we are walking a bit of a tightrope when we are balancing our connecting rods.
00:12 We want to remove material to balance the rods but of course we don't want to end up affecting or compromising the strengths.
00:19 So with the small end of the conrod, what we're trying to do is remove material using a linisher from the outside surface of the connecting rod.
00:27 We don't want to focus that in one spot and grind it down thin where it's going to affect the strength.
00:33 Instead what we want to do is evenly grind material off the entire outside diameter.
00:39 So essentially right the way around the outside of the small end of the conrod.
00:44 I'll just mention, seeing as we're talking about connecting rods here, as well on the big ends.
00:49 One of the key areas that I see a lot of even qualified machinists remove material when they're balancing connecting rods from is the two ribs on the cap.
01:00 Now that is a nice easy place to remove material, unfortunately that is also going to compromise the rigidity of the rod cap.
01:07 Those ribs are there for a reason and we don't want to end up affecting their strength.
01:13 So instead what we're going to do is actually remove material from the edges of the rod where our big end bolts go through.
01:21 So this is an area where we can remove a reasonable amount of material without actually compromising or affecting the strength.
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