View Full Version : Scraper - origin?
TonkaEngO
8th Feb 2008, 10:55
Do any of the more mature membership know where the word scraper, as in "got his scraper up", came from?
Yes - v v quiet friday
Yellow Sun
8th Feb 2008, 11:02
The origin is the "scraper ring" on a piston.
YS
r supwoods
8th Feb 2008, 11:04
The layout of piston rings on piston.... One ring of the set is to scrape off residue adhering to the cylinder wall.
Bladdered
8th Feb 2008, 11:11
Scraper (ing) the barrel:D
airsound
8th Feb 2008, 11:18
I thought it also referred to just scraping into senior ossiferhood.
airsound
Green Flash
8th Feb 2008, 11:37
Here you go. A thin scraper ring between the two thicker compression rings. Compare it to a Sqn Ldr rank braid.
http://www.imagineauto.com/996motor/pistonring.jpg
Here you go. A thin scraper ring between the two thicker compression rings. Compare it to a Sqn Ldr rank braid.
Close but no prize. In that photo the oil scraper ring is the bottom one, the upper two are compression rings. :ok:
Green Flash
8th Feb 2008, 11:58
Well, you know what I mean! My involvement with the infernal combustion engine has revealed only pistons with the scraper between the comp rings, hence the resemblance to the S/L braid hence the name. But point taken. Ta.