[QUOTE=greenwayjames;6420277]
Quote Originally Posted by NickG View Post
What on earth is a tool post grinder ! sounds like a complete bodge to me . If you mean he has tried to turn his lathe into an external grinder, then accuracy will go out the window.



See my reply to Mick.
sounds like he was just trying to put a rad on the front of a seal, OVERKILL! just use a radiused cutting tool. However this has nothing to do with my original post, all I am trying to say is , if you have a lathe a little skill , and some polyurethane, you can make your own seals, The difficult part is doing the rear where it mounts to the piston, and that I have done,