[AT] Need some help

[Dave]

Hi Dick, 
	After reading about 6 suggestions on how to solve your problem of no longer having any lead in your pencil I broke off a bit of lead from one of my pencils and put it on an anvil. I then placed the head of a ball peen hammer head on the lead I pushed the hammer head down on the lead EVER so slightly and discovered it shattered into MANY, MANY very small pieces—kind of DUST. I don’t thing you will find any problems with just leaving it where it is!
	Dave
PS, Give your wife's cat a chuck under the chin. He was just trying to help!

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Dick Day <dickday0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The generator that sits on my carry-all (on the back of the Boomer) was in
> my shop for a general clean-up.  I had just finished adjusting the
> intake/exhause gaps and was ready to put the cover back on, when I got some
> help from an unwanted assistant.  My wife's cat.  I had used a pencil to
> see when the piston was up and the valves were both closed.  I had the
> pencil sitting in the cylinder to see when it was at the tdc.  The cat
> jumped up there and manager to push the pencil just hard enought to break
> the lead off.  So, I have a tiny piece of lead sitting on the top of the
> piston.
> 
> I'm not up to tearing the engine down and would need to take it to a repair
> shop.
> 
> Will the engine self-destruct with the top of the pencil sitting on top of
> the piston?  It cannot be more than an 1/8" long with a fairly sharp point.
> 
> I have done this same procedure for years and never had a problem.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> As always, thanks.
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