What's on your bench?

[wcorey]

Back when I thought I was going to have a working dyno I accumulated a big pile of 350's in preparation for some major testing.
I've done more grinding on 350/353 cylinders than probably everything else I've done combined, was just a cheap, easy, available platform to experiment on.

My feeling is that it's the transfer caps, specifically outer/upper transfer area that would need something to get that cylinder near the 346 type level.
That desirable ? mark profile is just too shallow to get an efficient entry into the cylinder.
I'd thought of making deeper transfer caps or even blobbing a significant amount of jb over the stock ones and hogging them way out and then also filling in the inside of the bridge to match.

But when cheap aftermarket 346 p&c clones started showing up everywhere it sort of killed that idea and now that oem 346 top ends are under a 100 there's even less incentive.

I'd still like to do one up that way just to see...

 

[Wolverine]

Did you notice a performance difference?

That was a pic MikeT4 shared with me. I ran the saw but without a back to back run, we'll never know.
I left mine like this

 

[AlfA01]

I don’t have a lathe either. I made a “mill” for my dremel

Pics of the "mill"?

 

[drf256]

Optical delusion on my part, or is the center jug smaller bore and port?

Illusion. They are all 52mm MS460 Cylinders awaiting finishing. Fingers and uppers roughed in. Many many more hours left.

I hate doing multiple jugs at once. I’ll get these to 90%, no bevel finishing or port texture finishing, then do last touches on each saw in case things need to change.

These aren’t popup pistons. I machine each 272 piston crown for perfect squish. Each owner gets notified of the piston height should it need replacement some day.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

Pics of the "mill"?

Its partially disassembled at the moment, but I will snap a couple.

Its nothing spectacular: a “drill press” designed for the dremel, I reinforced the mount for the dremel as it flexed too much for my liking. Swapped out the adjustable height rod for a solid piece of stock. Drilled some holes and mounted a cheapo X, Y axis vise to the base. Its not at all anything resembling perfect, but with a gentle touch, going slow and not being greedy it works fine.

Just like any other piece of precision equipment (ha! Its a dremel drill press!!) it needs to be leveled and plumb. Once that is done and locked down i square the cyl in the jaws via measurement. I set the mill up and locked it all down on its own bench, that way I didn’t have set it up all over again. Obviously I verified the level and plumb before every use. It works fine for what it is: i have milled 12-14 cylinders, 5 rifles, 2 glock slides, some sight bases, scope rings and random crap around the garage.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

I also know a guy who did something similar with a drill press, but not how you think. He set up the drillpress as his chuck and mounts his spindles and work piece in it. He then uses a x,y vise mounted on a screw adjuster for up and down and mounts his dremel in the vise. It looks goofy but works pretty darn good.

 

[AlfA01]

Its partially disassembled at the moment, but I will snap a couple.

Its nothing spectacular: a “drill press” designed for the dremel, I reinforced the mount for the dremel as it flexed too much for my liking. Swapped out the adjustable height rod for a solid piece of stock. Drilled some holes and mounted a cheapo X, Y axis vise to the base. Its not at all anything resembling perfect, but with a gentle touch, going slow and not being greedy it works fine.

Just like any other piece of precision equipment (ha! Its a dremel drill press!!) it needs to be leveled and plumb. Once that is done and locked down i square the cyl in the jaws via measurement. I set the mill up and locked it all down on its own bench, that way I didn’t have set it up all over again. Obviously I verified the level and plumb before every use. It works fine for what it is: i have milled 12-14 cylinders, 5 rifles, 2 glock slides, some sight bases, scope rings and random crap around the garage.

Cool. I need a space saving option. Don't have a garage, just a small shop/work area.

 

[AlfA01]

Damn nice looking saw Dan.

Thank you, sir!

 

[ranchdadmike]

Illusion. They are all 52mm MS460 Cylinders awaiting finishing. Fingers and uppers roughed in. Many many more hours left.

I hate doing multiple jugs at once. I’ll get these to 90%, no bevel finishing or port texture finishing, then do last touches on each saw in case things need to change.

These aren’t popup pistons. I machine each 272 piston crown for perfect squish. Each owner gets notified of the piston height should it need replacement some day.

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Individualized works of art [emoji33]

 

[Cut4fun]

Although similar, mine was a Red 2150 (Husky350) cylinder. Here's pics.
Shows base gasket (and Klotz goo)
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I seen SUPER do that and turn piston caramel colored. Why I never ever run SUPER again. Guessing since 05-06 maybe.
Original tech KL200 way better IMHO

 

[usmcbuckwild]

Cool. I need a space saving option. Don't have a garage, just a small shop/work area.

The x,y axis mounts to the base with 4 bolts so its solid. I reinforced the base as well as the mount itself so there isn’t much flexion in the plastic. Like I said; slow, gentle and don’t be greedy! It works just fine.

 

[Deets066]

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The x,y axis mounts to the base with 4 bolts so its solid. I reinforced the base as well as the mount itself so there isn’t much flexion in the plastic. Like I said; slow, gentle and don’t be greedy! It works just fine.

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Did you indicate it in?

 

[MG porting]

Interesting observations here. 038M vs 262 Husky. 52 vs 48mm. Same stroke as well. Hmmm....

This 52mm jug is AM, but an OEM one has been found for the experiment once the calculations and measures are fighured out on the junker jug.

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Humm very interesting.

 

[usmcbuckwild]

Did you indicate it in?

I don’t use it for squish, that is done by hand with old piston

 

[Johnmn]

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The x,y axis mounts to the base with 4 bolts so its solid. I reinforced the base as well as the mount itself so there isn’t much flexion in the plastic. Like I said; slow, gentle and don’t be greedy! It works just fine.

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Innovative, I like it!

 

[usmcbuckwild]

Innovative, I like it!

Thanks. Nothing different than what a lot of people do with a drill press. The problem with the drill press is the chucks are typically a taper mount and have been know to come loose with a lateral load on it.

Again, its a dremel: not going to be able to mill or machine a bar with it, but cutting a base is feasible if you go slow and don’t expect to take 0.10 in a single pass

 

[Johnmn]

Thanks. Nothing different than what a lot of people do with a drill press. The problem with the drill press is the chucks are typically a taper mount and have been know to come loose with a lateral load on it.

Again, its a dremel: not going to be able to mill or machine a bar with it, but cutting a base is feasible if you go slow and don’t expect to take 0.10 in a single pass

I should try using my router table!

 

[usmcbuckwild]

I should try using my router table!

Not sure if thats feasible. I know I can adjust the speed on my router, but I think its still too fast to use it safely. Cutting wood and polymers is one thing but the metal is pretty unforgiving. I would not want to be holding that cylinder in my hand when trying to push it over the bit

 

[MG porting]

Not on my bench yet but was thinking of building the farmertec clone of the 038 has anyone built one yet and if so what was you feelings about it? And of course I'll be doing my port work to it.

 

[NCFarmboy]

I should try using my router table!

I've seen it done. Guy built a box for cyl. to sit in. Cut a template for router to follow. I thought about it as I have 5-6 routers. Bought an Atlas/Craftsman 12 x 36 instead.
Shep