Spacing sleeves cut, along with their #2-56 button head screws.
Is that a Dremel cut-off wheel and Moto-tool in the lower portion of that last photo? I'd love to see a wider angle view of the lathe set-up if possible.
EDIT: ahhh, I see..it's a little pneumatic die-grinder.
BTW - your entire text is giving me quite a chuckle, 2M. The way you intermingle SI and British dimensions reminds me very much of how we do it here.
A Canadian engineer in Texas...cool!
I am guessing the idea here is to manually separate the disks mechanically to get rid of clutch drag Right ? and your using an accordion style
mechanism this disk pulls the next disk which pulls the next through the stack....
this would provide positive separation of all disks ....
...if you can pull it off....
...When the original clutch is pulled it moves the pressure plate out and the friction disks float in that small distance...
...will some still drag at that distance ?
...Great work 2M Keep it going !!!!