Valve shims smaller than smallest 2.15 mm

[Nessism]

I have lots of spare buckets, although I'm not sure how much it would cost to ship them to Belgium.

[gert du prez]

to keep you all updated:

have chosen the 'remove the nub from the bucket-solution' and just wanted to show you what a bucket looks like with a 1.80 mm shim (see picture).

The shims are so thin that these fall completely IN the bucket (which people warned me to be dangerous).

will be in the 2.45 mm shim range when the nub is gone, as the nub appears to be 0.6 mm thick

[Nessism]

to keep you all updated:

have chosen the 'remove the nub from the bucket-solution' and just wanted to show you what a bucket looks like with a 1.80 mm shim (see picture).

The shims are so thin that these fall completely IN the bucket (which people warned me to be dangerous).

will be in the 2.45 mm shim range when the nub is gone, as the nub appears to be 0.6 mm thick

2.15 is about as thin as you can go without the bucket lips sticking up above the shim.

As far as grinding down the nib, you shouldn't go any thinner than necessary - don't remove it completely. You only need to remove enough to allow a reasonable range of shims - something like a 2.30

[gert du prez]

seems necessary to remove the whole of the nib to get in the correct 'ball park' for the shims...

is there a danger that the tappet (shim bucket) is getting too thin after the nib is removed, so that it would break or so ?