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Dutch-K5 Fan:

--- Quote from: BDI on January 03, 2008, 02:30:48 PM ---It would be cool if you could take a cylinder apart by its casting seems because then you could make plaster molds from that then make all the changes you would like to make to the cylinder to the plaster molds then you make all the parts that make up the cylinder from wax. then you assemble the wax parts to make a cylinder then that gets coated with a speicial mold making media that fills all the voids and incases the wax cylinder. Then you fire it in a kiln that hardens the mold and burns out all the wax leaving the empty space of a cylinder. then you fill that space with molten aluminum, once it cools then you can break off the mold and you have a cylinder minus all the machine work and plating. This can be done in your back yard,I have literally seen a video of asian people making street bike wheels in a mud hut next to a rice pattie.

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The only problem of copying that way is, your NEW cilinder will be smaller.
Every 10mm will shrink about 0.15mm if it cools from melting temperature to normale.
For a wheel not much a problem, for a cilinder to be 2mm smaller :? :? :?
Will not fit I'm afried.

It would be tremendous to build your own cilinder to own spec!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil: :evil:
Bigbores or strokers can be made with eas

          Dutchie

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