PistonSlap

[Lois]

Good evening young fellows. Just been pondering on when the next pistonslap is due out or whether I was so unfortunate as to miss it?

[DanBoy]

Ahhhhhhhh pistonslap... Sigh... *misty far away look*

[mybrainhurts]

Wot's a pistonslapper....?

[BrianTheYank]

There hasnt been a pistolslap for a while now.
Always good for a laugh

[Lois]

mybrainhurts said:

Wot's a pistonslapper....?

it meows

>> Edited by Lois on Friday 1st April 21:53

[BMGM3]

Piston slap is nothing new to piston driven internal combustion engines and compressors. It is the secondary (sideways or perpendicular) movement of a piston against the side of a cylinder bore where the primary movement of a piston is intended to be parallel (up and down) to the cylinder bore. All piston driven internal combustion engines and compressors have a certain amount of piston slap.


Excessive piston slap occurs when the clearance between the piston and the cylinder bore is too great. The piston to cylinder bore clearance becomes too great either through wear, mismatched pistons and cylinder bores at manufacturing or, a combination of both. The audible noise associated with excessive piston slap is due to the perpendicular impact of the piston against the wall of the cylinder bore. Audible piston slap is typically loudest when the engine is first started up. The pistons then expand with heat reducing the piston to cylinder bore clearance thus, reducing the perpendicular impact of the piston against the cylinder wall and its resulting noise.

[docevi1]

or PistonSlap could be the mock newspaper that Domster amongst others write occasionally. It features mock articles on popular people from the forum...

[DanBoy]

I always read "Pistonslap" as a kind of Tango'd version of Pistonslap, if ya know what I mean - Ted with a big orange hand, going round slapping people rond the mutton chops...

[alexkp]

I would love to see a copy!

I write occasionally for some of the big satirical sites - and would be happy to make a contribution.

[2 Smokin Barrels]

Nah

Pissed n slap.

Twelve lagers & a refusal at the Palais de Dance.

[FunkyNige]

anonymous said:

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www.pistonheads.com/search.asp?s=pistonslap&d=0

[LongQ]

When I'werra lad said term had other connotations which were similar to the description from BMGM3 in terms of how the noise was generated but the order of events was somewhat different in that the piston had stopped expanding but the bores continued to do so with regular or frequent use.

The materials involved were, to the best of my knowledge, never metals.