Wouldnt this be fine and dandy to CC some heads.

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No if you do not have a known standard to calibrate it to;and yes if you do.
I see the tip as a bit of a problem.
But it also kindof depends on the accuracy required. If you're just curious as where ABOUT your c/r is, then fine. But if you are building to a specification, or are running c/r on the edge of detonation, or trying to match chamber sizes,then not so much.
If you buy two of them, you can calibrate the tip of one by drawing fluid from the second.You might get accuracy to .3cc to maybe .2cc, who knows. In a streeter, .2cc error in one measurement may not be a big deal, but if you start adding .3cc in the head plus .2cc in the bore, well then, it's starting to add up.If you're building a 9/1 engine it's no big deal, but if you want to be sure that you can burn 87 in your 9.8er, well you might want to rethink that, cuz .5cc at that point could be .5 /10 of a point of compression in a 360, and almost .7/10 of a point in a 318. Not much, but perhaps enough to push you into the next grade of fuel.
Truth be told; up to a 1/2 a cc in a streeter is probably not going to cause problems.
I used something like that,which I bought at the local vet-shop,for one of my engines.I did it a little differently tho. I did all the measuring and math as usual. Then after the engine was assembled, I rolled it over to put some plug holes at the high points, and injected oil into the chambers to measure the total chamber volume. I had a good match.It was a streeter.It burns 87E10 on 10.64 Scr(al. heads),which was about 78.0cc. If I was .3cc out, the final c/r calculation could vary between 10.58 and 10.70

You should also know that using water and your thumb in one of those is very tricky. The rubber seal loves to stick to the plastic sidewall, making small changes very difficult. I combated this with Silicon O-ring lube.I got some hi-grade stuff from a Fuller Transmission rebuilders outfit.Good stuff.The rubber seal tolerates the silicon, but almost anything else will swell it, and then it is useless.
 
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It might be for the guy installing a cam dot-to-dot. That's for hydroponics and accuracy doesn't need to be spot on. I use a glass burette that is certified for lab use. They cost about $80 without the stand nowadays I think. It's kind of like my $1200 certified sonic tester that "does the same job" as the $300 imports.
 
Well, either you want good tools, or not.
 
AJ/FormS said:
no and yes
No if you do not have a known standard to calibrate it to;and yes if you do.
I see the tip as a bit of a problem.
But it also kindof depends on the accuracy required. If you're just curious as where ABOUT your c/r is, then fine. But if you are building to a specification, or are running c/r on the edge of detonation, or trying to match chamber sizes,then not so much.
If you buy two of them, you can calibrate the tip of one by drawing fluid from the second.You might get accuracy to .3cc to maybe .2cc, who knows. In a streeter, .2cc error in one measurement may not be a big deal, but if you start adding .3cc in the head plus .2cc in the bore, well then, it's starting to add up.If you're building a 9/1 engine it's no big deal, but if you want to be sure that you can burn 87 in your 9.8er, well you might want to rethink that, cuz .5cc at that point could be .5 /10 of a point of compression in a 360, and almost .7/10 of a point in a 318. Not much, but perhaps enough to push you into the next grade of fuel.
Truth be told; up to a 1/2 a cc in a streeter is probably not going to cause problems.
I used something like that,which I bought at the local vet-shop,for one of my engines.I did it a little differently tho. I did all the measuring and math as usual. Then after the engine was assembled, I rolled it over to put some plug holes at the high points, and injected oil into the chambers to measure the total chamber volume. I had a good match.It was a streeter.It burns 87E10 on 10.64 Scr(al. heads),which was about 78.0cc. If I was .3cc out, the final c/r calculation could vary between 10.58 and 10.70

You should also know that using water and your thumb in one of those is very tricky. The rubber seal loves to stick to the plastic sidewall, making small changes very difficult. I combated this with Silicon O-ring lube.I got some hi-grade stuff from a Fuller Transmission rebuilders outfit.Good stuff.The rubber seal tolerates the silicon, but almost anything else will swell it, and then it is useless.
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Best answer, ok so in short this thing sucks, thanks, Ill pass on it and keep looking

moper said:
It might be for the guy installing a cam dot-to-dot. That's for hydroponics and accuracy doesn't need to be spot on. I use a glass burette that is certified for lab use. They cost about $80 without the stand nowadays I think. It's kind of like my $1200 certified sonic tester that "does the same job" as the $300 imports.
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Thanks, another good answer

RustyRatRod said:
Well, either you want good tools, or not.
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This reply sucked like your last one but not quite as badly, keep trying, I do see the possibility of an upward swing and you may eventually make it back on my Christmas card list.

I have good tools and will continue to have good tools but not in every case does a good tool come with a stupid high price tag.
 
I don't give replies for you to like them. I don't give a crap if you like them or not.
 
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Now why would I do a boring thing like that?
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Cause I asked you nicely, in case you hadnt noticed I dont like your posting style, I dont like your attitude and rumor has it you do not smell very well.

If you insist on replying to my posts when I have asked you already nicely to stop than I will have to ask a moderator to ask you to stop replying to my posts.

I consider you to be offensive and arrogant, you behave as a I should expect a 12 year old child to behave but I do not have time to continue to correct a 12 year old childs behavior so again please just stop reading and replying to my posts.

I would push the special button that puts you on my ignore list but unfortunately I believe that only disallows me to read your posts and Id still have to look at your dumb screenname, curiosity might get the better of me and then Id have to reply to your dumb juvenile posts again like I am doing here now and I simply do not want to exhaust any more effort on your dumbass.

Thanks for understanding. Have a nice day :)
 
Well, not everyone can have a sense of humor as I see you are sorely lacking. I feel sorry for you,that you have to insult others to get your point across.

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Cause I asked you nicely, in case you hadnt noticed I dont like your posting style, I dont like your attitude and rumor has it you do not smell very well.

If you insist on replying to my posts when I have asked you already nicely to stop than I will have to ask a moderator to ask you to stop replying to my posts.

I consider you to be offensive and arrogant, you behave as a I should expect a 12 year old child to behave but I do not have time to continue to correct a 12 year old childs behavior so again please just stop reading and replying to my posts.

I would push the special button that puts you on my ignore list but unfortunately I believe that only disallows me to read your posts and Id still have to look at your dumb screenname, curiosity might get the better of me and then Id have to reply to your dumb juvenile posts again like I am doing here now and I simply do not want to exhaust any more effort on your dumbass.

Thanks for understanding. Have a nice day :)
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RustyRatRod said:
Well, not everyone can have a sense of humor as I see you are sorely lacking. I feel sorry for you,that you have to insult others to get your point across.
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Great sounds good, thanks for undestanding
 
I guess Im gonna go with this one, Acrylic Plastic Burette 100 ml PTFE Titration Buret ( I dont like the glass cause Im just clumsy enough to break it ) Ill assume that this thread is either dead at this point cause of numnuts above or itll be deleted by a mod so again before that happens thanks again to anyone that contributed something useful to this conversation.
 
1930 said:
I guess Im gonna go with this one, Acrylic Plastic Burette 100 ml PTFE Titration Buret ( I dont like the glass cause Im just clumsy enough to break it ) Ill assume that this thread is either dead at this point cause of numnuts above or itll be deleted by a mod so again before that happens thanks again to anyone that contributed something useful to this conversation.
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FWIW, if you can break a glass burette, you have no business doing any work that would need one.

Just my humble opinion.

BTW, I have owned my glass burette since 1981.
 
In between painting some bumpers and i get an e-mail that there were some new responses posted, thanks for adding to this, gave me the chance to review some of my posts above and I needed a good chuckle, I dont care what Hillary Clinton said about me I still crack myself up :)
 
1930 said:
In between painting some bumpers and i get an e-mail that there were some new responses posted, thanks for adding to this, gave me the chance to review some of my posts above and I needed a good chuckle, I dont care what Hillary Clinton said about me I still crack myself up :)
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In that case, you can graduate a turkey blaster and get acceptable results!!

Did Hillary say something we should care about?
 
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