Pictures of cylinder halves

Here is a couple pictures of an 056 cut length wise. The 2 photos are 90 degrees from each other. 2 cylinders were used.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/klickitat/stuff_0002.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y186/klickitat/stuff_0001.jpg

Good informative pictures. Those transfers look nice and gentle - round and no sharp/square corners to disrupt the flow.

Cutting the cylinder in half also makes it much easier to to do a nice neat porting job.

Rotax

Cool!

neat dean
That has a huge combustion chamber huh?

just looked at those pics and it indeed has huge combustion chamber but the squishband on head looks like it could be improved alot...

blis said:

just looked at those pics and it indeed has huge combustion chamber but the squishband on head looks like it could be improved alot...

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Considering it's 25 year old design (before you were born??), maybe

Dean....could you please show us the 066, 650, 064, 046, 044, 084, 088, 2100, 181, and 680 solo please. Thanks......Hahahahahaha!

sorry guys, computer has been down and had to steal the one from the house and have it built up for the shop.

Hey Dennis, if you supply the cylinders I will supply the sawz all blades. 1 per cylinder at $2 each. The combination of the chrome and the aluminum plugging up the teeth destroys them in short order.

I do have a 044 and a homelite 2100 that are cut and I will put them on later today when I get my camera hooked back up.

klickitatsacket said:

sorry guys, computer has been down and had to steal the one from the house and have it built up for the shop.

Hey Dennis, if you supply the cylinders I will supply the sawz all blades. 1 per cylinder at $2 each. The combination of the chrome and the aluminum plugging up the teeth destroys them in short order.

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What did you cut them with? Really a sawzall? What blade? I would not have expected such an even cut.

Cool pics. Cross sections are the best way I know to clearly see curves on 3-d objects. (You might want to try a manual focus.)

I will try to get wome better pictures of these as well when I post the others later.
Yes they were cut with a sawz all. A standard metal cutting blade. I tried one of the RemGrit blades but it plugged way to quick.

I have POS $200 Grizzly metal bandsaw that I paid $50 at a garage sale. Cuts these in half beautifully, and the bands last for a long time. I'll try to dig up some cylinders.. Unfortunately, the scrap guys hauled most of it away a few months back...

It would be fun to cut one away and mount it back on an say an 044 with pistion. Sure would make timing calcs easy!

Andy, have you seen the cut away saw from Stihl. They have one sitting at Madsen's. I heard they are like $1800 for one.

yep!

How come cut in half? What to do after that? opcorn:

just to look at. I have about 10 cylinders cut. Some so I can measure the thicknesses of areas I am working and others; just to see how they are built.

klickitatsacket said:

just to look at. I have about 10 cylinders cut. Some so I can measure the thicknesses of areas I am working and others; just to see how they are built.

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Post the pics...

most of the cylinders I have cut I will not show on here. There is too much work in them and I really do not want to post for free what has taken me a lot of blood, sweat and tears to figure out.

I will put some more up though as soon as I find my kodak picture software and get it loaded up into this machine. I am still trying to load up software that was lost when my computer when down over the weekend.

Cylinder

Do these look ok???

If anybody is has a donor 066 or 084/088 cylinder, I have a horizontal bandsaw with a carbide tipped blade that should cut through it rather quickly.

I'll post the pics here, naturally...


Andy