Yep, welp. They are every bit as fragile as we have been told.
Caught it on the edge of the ring compressor. (I knew you’d ask, Wiggs)
OH. YES. I have an industrial sized tube here somewhere.
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Well, I have never done that…
I miss the days of NAPA’s open stock rings, about now…
Remember: cast iron is nothing but a series of cracks, in tenuously alignment.
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HEY GUYS!!! I plumb forgot… I have a TIG welder!!!
Duh… sitting right there, too.
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Hey! Be fun practice!
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Oh, %^#*¥€!, and a few more cuss words not yet invented…
Ouch. That hurt.
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Pfft. It’s only the oil control ring. They have bigger gaps anyway. 
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I’m surprised it’s a one piece ring, I would have thought it would be 4 items?
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Yea: Mitch, you’d be better off with the three-piece oil control rings. I bet Grant will sell them to ya.
I’ve got a set of 6 coming. I may pull the other 5 and swap the oil rings out, not torqued down yet.
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The new set of rings I’ve just installed feature four piece oil control rings.
Something new to me. I’ve never seen an oil scraper that wasn’t two thin rings and a spacer.
Most all engines, prior to 1965(ish?) had one-piece oil rings.
My JD hit’n miss has no oil control ring!
I must have not been paying attention. I know at least 3 pre 1960 Jaguar engines I dismantled. I probably never bothered with the old rings. Scrapped all of the old pistons.
The Grants I bought for the Rover were 4-piece, too.
Yes, exactly.
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