What's on your bench?

[drf256]

046 popup for a buddy using a meteor jug. Kryptonite plating.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

046 popup for a buddy using a meteor jug. Kryptonite plating.

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Sexy.....

 

[drf256]

Finished a few 046 jugs and some 272 slugs

 

[MG porting]

046 popup for a buddy using a meteor jug. Kryptonite plating.

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Now when you say kryptonite plating are you referring to the insanely hard plating on the squish band?

 

[drf256]

Yup

 

[PA Dan]

Got a 192t freebie from my dealer. Came in with a scored piston. New OEM piston was $19.99! Doing a pressure and vac test now before I remove the cylinder. Hoping to have it back together by morning so i dont forget what goes where! Lol!

 

[MG porting]

Yup

Lol. Stuff is tuff for sure.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Lol. Stuff is tuff for sure.

I busted up 2 cutter bits for my boring bar trying to cut the squish band on a meteor jug.
Never again will I cut the squish on a jug with a plated squish band......never.

 

[huskihl]

I busted up 2 cutter bits for my boring bar trying to cut the squish band on a meteor jug.
Never again will I cut the squish on a jug with a plated squish band......never.

40 grit on a mandrel gets rid of most it it pretty quick

 

[Canadian farm boy]

40 grit on a mandrel gets rid of most it it pretty quick

The plating was at least .015" thick. I actually tried grinding through it in a couple spots with a double cut burr and it hardly made a dent. That cylinder almost went for a flight test several times. Grrrrr.
If I ever mess with another one of those jugs it will get a pop up piston.

 

[Deets066]

Grrrrr.
If I ever mess with another one of those jugs it will get a pop up piston.

Lmao

 

[huskihl]

The plating was at least .015" thick. I actually tried grinding through it in a couple spots with a double cut burr and it hardly made a dent. That cylinder almost went for a flight test several times. Grrrrr.
If I ever mess with another one of those jugs it will get a pop up piston.

Never had one that thick. I've had one chatter the jug loose in the lathe before. Got lucky that it was on the first .010" pass. I figured I just fed it too fast.
I almost went for the tannerite

 

[mdavlee]

40 grit on a mandrel gets rid of most it it pretty quick

40 grit will take a lot out in a hurry. I liked putting he mandrel in the large and holding the jug by hand.

 

[huskihl]

40 grit will take a lot out in a hurry. I liked putting he mandrel in the large and holding the jug by hand.

Got some wooden sanding mandrels that I put in the benchtop drill press. Had a couple get away from me on the lathe once the dust packed in and about took a sausage off. . Not much room between the ways and corner of a cylinder lol

 

[Deets066]

Got some wooden sanding mandrels that I put in the benchtop drill press. Had a couple get away from me on the lathe once the dust packed in and about took a sausage off. . Not much room between the ways and corner of a cylinder lol

Never stick your sausages where you wouldn’t stick...... your sausage

 

[mdavlee]

Got some wooden sanding mandrels that I put in the benchtop drill press. Had a couple get away from me on the lathe once the dust packed in and about took a sausage off. . Not much room between the ways and corner of a cylinder lol

I always just pushed flat and when it bound I didn’t have a grip. I figured out quick you can’t hold it if the lathe wants it

 

[drf256]

Not in a meteor fellas. Other AM jugs, even the plated ones, cut easily with a carbide cutter. The meteor made me think I had something wrong on the lathe.

Take a look at the edge of the plating where the chamber hits the band. I had to grind that edge by hand with a diamond ball. It has to be at least .o25 in the chamber. Likely less elsewhere because of honing.

 

[drf256]

Got some wooden sanding mandrels that I put in the benchtop drill press. Had a couple get away from me on the lathe once the dust packed in and about took a sausage off. . Not much room between the ways and corner of a cylinder lol

If you want one, I’d be glad to ship one to ya. A variation on the “Flight test” Mike speaks of.

 

[huskihl]

If you want one, I’d be glad to ship one to ya. A variation on the “Flight test” Mike speaks of.

Lol. I have one here but the saw hasn't showed up yet. I don't thing the few I've done had plating nearly as thick as what you're talking about. That sounds like a bear

 

[redline4]

If a guy were to just run it as is, the extra plating isnt a bad thing, is it? I suppose it's of no benefit, but wont present a problem?