Been in the machine shop 44 year and knew unless you uses a carbide ball end mill (rather costly) that was all that was going to cut it. We do a lot of grooves in faces and bores for grease type applications. Nothing bathed in oil. Still not sure what you are trying to do. Have you seen wear on this face. You may be better off blueing the drive dogs and with out the belville springs to see were they hit the three spokes. The polish that area. The part is only case harden, probably less the .020-.030 thousands so you would only want to take off a few .001

 

Has anyone tried coating these parts? MAybe with something like this?

http://www.jet-hot.com/sdfcoatings.html

 

Are these oil grooves put on one or both sides of the sprocket?

 

Ditto question, does it matter which side you cut ???

Be Safe JIM

 

Dang nice lookin' work Reaper22!! I'm impressed!!
I have one too that will need that done to it.
Any tips? Thanks..

 

this is crazy. we need to cut grooves into parts so that they work correctly?

 

Ya don't have to, it's just a pro-active thing..
Some have had the SE Compensators belly up and they have been known to have galling.

 

looks like an argument for staying on the thinner side of lubricating oil. Wonder what the design expectation was of how the part gets lubricated?

 

So..... What's a compensator? Why a SE compensator over stock?

 

+1 on what and why the SE compensator?