Egge Valve Manufacture

Did you know Egge manufactures valves for vintage domestic engines? Egge’s machine shop in Santa Fe Springs offers small run valve manufacturing for custom and stock applications.<br /> <br /> They start with hardened stainless steel blanks, which differ from the stock forged steel valves. Stainless steel is much more stable and doesn’t stretch or bend like forged steel under extreme heat/cool cycles and more stable in the life of the valve as well. Forged steel tends to lose hardness in time.<br /> <br /> Egge’s stringent quality assurance program ensures that the quality is very consistent with a 90% “low-tolerance” and the remaining 10% falls within 50% of the tolerance gap noted in the specifications. For example in a valve stem of .3725” specifications state that the tolerance must fall between a +0.0010 oversize and -0.0005 undersize. 90% of our valves are at .3725” and the other ten percent may fall within +0.0005 and -0.00025. <br /> <br /> We also measure each valve for concentricity. Concentricity is the consistent measure of th

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