Headwork on a cracked head?

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>>"Zylinderkoepfe mit Rissen zwischen den Ventilsitzen bzw. zwischen
>>Ventilsitzring und dem Zuendkerzgewinde koennen ohne Herabsetzen
>>der Lebensdauer weiterverwendet werden, wenn es sich um leichte,
>>max. 0,5 mm breite Anrisse handelt oder wenn nur die ersten
>>Gaenge des Zuendkerzengewindes gerissen sind."

> "Cylinder heads with cracks between valve seats or between valve seat and
> spark plug thread can be reused without any negative effects, when the
> cracks are small, max. 0.5 mm in width and when only the first windings of
> the spark plug threads are affected".

> Now it does.

I'm not sure.  The subtlety of 'Risse' vs 'Anrisse' has gone.  I've
been trying to think how to express this.  It isn't in the dictionary,
of course, because 'Anrisse' is a compound noun.  The 'An' prefix
carries all sorts of implications - Babelfish's 'incipient' is actually
quite good.  Literally it can mean 'at', 'on', 'in', 'to', 'against',
'near' or 'about' depending on context.  The meaning here for 'Anrisse'
is probably close to 'surface cracks'.

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 Phil Payne
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