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    Meehanite Cast Iron Available Locally?

    Hi Peter, No hard chroming facilities here. Will have to outsource and this will present a problem as I don't trust a regular chroming facility to successfully handle a job like this. The specs. say the piston is to be "flash chromed" 0.0003" total to at least 60 RC and then polished.
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    Meehanite Cast Iron Available Locally?

    Yes, cast iron for the piston. But not just any cast iron. Craig Asher knew what he was doing. I have all of the the construction articles and there was a very good reason for using it in this case -because of the design. Using an aluminum (alloy) piston would not have resulted in a lighter...
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    Meehanite Cast Iron Available Locally?

    Hi Peter, Yes, you are correct. It is for a 2.5cc model 2 stroke speed model engine which I started (from a casting kit) when I was sixteen. Craig Asher designed it in 1959 and in 1960/61 it won many domestic speed events. It was also entered into and did very well in international speed...
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    Meehanite Cast Iron Available Locally?

    Hi Peter, One UK site says all sold out and the other UK site says doesn't post to Canada. I know you can source Meehanite in the UK but the shipping cost here is astronomical if and when it is available. I know Meehanite iron is available in Canada but just where...
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    Meehanite Cast Iron Available Locally?

    Hi Mike, I am in Toronto and local can be anywhere in Canada.
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    Meehanite Cast Iron Available Locally?

    Hi All, Does anyone know where one can source true meehanite cast iron in small quantities? I have a very small high performance piston to make which will be chrome plated and I need the real thing not something which is close for this application. A 3/4" dia round bar 6" long would be ideal...
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    It Looks So Easy and Straightforward ON Paper But...

    Hi All, Moving on with the valve layout. Initially, when I did this to the LBSC drawing dimensions, it didn't look anything like what was shown so after some head scratching I decided to make a revision. Some of the dimensions given do not seem to be correct but we shall see. My rough sketch...
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    It Looks So Easy and Straightforward ON Paper But...

    Hi All, Moving on. The partially made valve handles shown are not Superscale but I liked the look so I decided to make up something in that style. They were "eyeballed" from the Superscale photo posted early in the thread. Construction wise, they were first roughed out on the bandsaw and...
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    It Looks So Easy and Straightforward ON Paper But...

    Hi All, Setting the two half bodies together so they line up, then drilling and tapping through. The first thing which I had to do was to cut off the end of one aligning plug, insert it through the two half bodies and tape over the end with masking tape to ensure it would not fall out when it...
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    It Looks So Easy and Straightforward ON Paper But...

    Hi All, Drilling the two half body attachment bolt holes comes next. This is another operation which is easy to describe and less easy to do without some planning and forethought even having some fancy equipment available. First, on one half body, both of the half body centre lines had been...
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