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Anybody know what cylinder this is?
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Anybody know what cylinder this is?
I recently purchased an .020 for next to nothing. It was seized, filthy, and looked like the cylinder was rusted. When I got it apart on my bench I realized that the cylinder wasn't rusted, that was the color of the barrel. I'm not a collector or expert on these engines (yet), but had never heard of a brown cylinder. Can anyone shed light?
PS-engine has good compression, plan to run it this week.
Thanks, Ed
PS-engine has good compression, plan to run it this week.
Thanks, Ed
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
Probably a cylinder that was de-blackfaced sometime and somewhere.
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
How 'bout that? I fingered it out! The brown is too uniform to have beendone in somebody's shop. Looks like it came from factory this way.
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
No,this is neither rust or dried castor. The brown finish looks like an anodizing. There are no inconsistent edges that would suggest someones' homebrew, and the coloring is even.
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
And no wear marks that would suggest throttle ring.
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
The throttle ring could have been summarily removed by some prior owner without ever having been used (or used very little), thus no scratch marks.
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
edw wrote:No,this is neither rust or dried castor. The brown finish looks like an anodizing. There are no inconsistent edges that would suggest someones' homebrew, and the coloring is even.
Well you can't anodise steel for a start-so forget about that as an option. I'd still opt for it having had a rotating exhaust throttle on it at some stage-possibly only at the factory-that was later removed for some reason-the brown could be either castor residue from actual running or simply oxidised oil/grease from initial assembly-if left undisturbed long enough the stuff dries out like this....or it could simply be a case of the cylinder being inadequately blacked during the treatment process-either thru operator error, or because of time, bath depletion etc etc
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
ffkiwi wrote:edw wrote:No,this is neither rust or dried castor. The brown finish looks like an anodizing. There are no inconsistent edges that would suggest someones' homebrew, and the coloring is even.
Well you can't anodise steel for a start-so forget about that as an option. I'd still opt for it having had a rotating exhaust throttle on it at some stage-possibly only at the factory-that was later removed for some reason-the brown could be either castor residue from actual running or simply oxidised oil/grease from initial assembly-if left undisturbed long enough the stuff dries out like this....or it could simply be a case of the cylinder being inadequately blacked during the treatment process-either thru operator error, or because of time, bath depletion etc etc
ChrisM
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Re: Anybody know what cylinder this is?
Well if it bothers you U can reblue it with little effort and small amount of $$
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