The amount of pistons i have thrown to scrap & never thought about making ash trays although not merlin pistons, but with the smoking ban in the uk not much point now.:dev2:
Was at a motorcycle salvage yard one day & discovered 3 brand new high comp MTC pistons for a Kaw 1000. They were just laying in the dirt, but clearly unused. I got em for free as you need 4, not 3 for a set.
Fast forward about 12 months or so & on another visit to the salvage yard discovered the 4th one, also free 🙂
As seen here on top of my Connie piston…
I don’t smoke, so my Merlin piston is still intact…:p:cool:
& no, thats just polished, not chromed….. I’m not one of those chromo-sexuals 😉
Hi ZRX61.
Have you a photo of the inside of the flat top piston please.
Thanks.
Lincoln 7
Flat top:
Flat dome (Connie):
R2800:
Yep, not exactly much variety with design of large American aero-engine pistons! 😀
Well, some of em are flat on top…
& some have a flat dome…
Here are a couple of photographs of my R-1830 piston…..at least I hope it’s an R-1830 piston! :rolleyes:
I’ve got R2800 pistons that look exactly like that…
Well, the lower one does…..
The ‘master’ connecting-rods for the R-1830 are particularly impressive if you can get hold of one.
This pair are 1820…right one is unused.
Slowly cleaning this up… Got most of the burnt on oil off by plastic blasting(it went BOOM! clatter clatter clatter…..pop, clunk)
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