Cylinder coatings

[LarryTheCableGuy]

Now that right there is funny.

Electroless Krome™ Plating Kit Looks Like Chrome - Not A Yellow Nickel!
Hard Like Chrome - Tougher Than Nickel!
Keeps Its Shine - Just Like Chrome!

"Krome" is to hard chrome as "Krab" is to crab.

Just get a rattle can of shiny silver paint! That "chrome" stuff is just BS!

It will go perfectly with those ScotchBrite air cleaners.

 

[04ultra]

Try this one even Ben Walkers like's them..:rockn: :rockn:

http://www.usnicom.com

 

[coveredinsap]

Now that right there is funny.

Electroless Krome™ Plating Kit Looks Like Chrome - Not A Yellow Nickel!
Hard Like Chrome - Tougher Than Nickel!
Keeps Its Shine - Just Like Chrome!

"Krome" is to hard chrome as "Krab" is to crab.

Just get a rattle can of shiny silver paint! That "chrome" stuff is just BS!

It will go perfectly with those ScotchBrite air cleaners.

Don't mind larry, he's the kind of guy that throws a hissy fit when you tell him that his plans and/or 'calculations' don't work in real life.

 

[04ultra]

Here's another one
..http://www.atelieradrienbernard.com/contenu/index_ang.cfm

 

[04ultra]

WOW another one..http://www.mt-llc.com/index_home.shtml

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

Aw, c'mon. Stop it Ultra! Who needs something tried and proven when you can buy a kit that you hook up to an old tractor battery!

Sap, stop acting like an idiot. You remind me of ill behaved little kids that act out just to get attention.

What in the world is your motive behind stupid comments like the "hissy fit" one above?

 

[04ultra]

Aw, c'mon. Stop it Ultra! Who needs something tried and proven when you can buy a kit that you hook up to an old tractor battery!

Sap, stop acting like an idiot. You remind me of ill behaved little kids that act out just to get attention.

What in the world is your motive behind stupid comments like the "hissy fit" one above?

Stop telling me to stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm just starting to get up to speed on this.. Boy I just cant find the sence in argueing about everything all the time.. Larry we just cant win ..Hope your wife dont mind I'm useing your fish tank and heater.. :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

B1tchen Man! I always wanted some Krome plated fish!

Can you do Krome plated Krab?

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[coveredinsap]

WOW another one..http://www.mt-llc.com/index_home.shtml

Yeah, why do it yourself and learn something in the process when you can pay $$$ more and have someone do it for you!

I'm surprised you guys even work on your own chainsaws....wait, that's right!, you don't! BwahHahahahahahahahaha!

Tell me more how you use to live in Alaska, please.

 

[04ultra]

Yeah, why do it yourself and learn something in the process when you can pay $$$ more and have someone do it for you!

I'm surprised you guys even work on your own chainsaws....wait, that's right!, you don't! BwahHahahahahahahahaha!

Tell me more how you use to live in Alaska, please.

Oh I forgot your on a tight budget .. I'm not and do repair my own saw's .. Was checking into chrome plated bar's for all my saw's .. So they look nice and shine..HAHAHAHA
As far as Alaska no clue what your talking about.. Splain your self Lucy...

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

Sappy,

I used to run a blown gas flatbottom boat...A Sanger hull, BB Chevy, punched .030 over to 460ci with a 6-71 Mooneyham blower, Carillo rods, two double pumper Holleys, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, I have turned a wrench or two...

 

[coveredinsap]

Sappy,

I used to run a blown gas flatbottom boat...A Sanger hull, BB Chevy, punched .030 over to 460ci with a 6-71 Mooneyham blower, Carillo rods, two double pumper Holleys, blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, I have turned a wrench or two...

Yeah yeah yeah. Was that before or after you designed and engineered the Eiffel Tower?

Hohoho, Merry Christmas.

 

[sawinredneck]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK SAP, think about this, this is what I was askin Lakeside about. If you Electrosil the insde of a cyll. without boring it out first, the piston WILL NOT FIT!!!!!!!!!! This is not rocket science just facts, think about it, you have around .007" clearance at most, then you shrink it by .010". IT DOESN'T WORK!!!!!!!!!!! Don't be a dumazz and fight this one too, I have won way too many pissing matches lately, and don't feel like having to live across the street fom you to prove my point!!! CA will be in the ocean soon enough, it doesn't neeed my sound system and help right now!!
Andy

 

[Lakeside53]

I read of people around here salvaging cylinders with hand sanding. Putting a thin coating of chrome with a electroless or electroplate chrome kit is not cost effective how?

Read the Caswell site. People plate all sorts of things with their kits. And you'd never know the difference.

The questions is: What does it take to get a coating on a chainsaw cylinder depending on what the cylinder is made of....and you'd have to read the Caswell site for that information.

Funny thing is I did read the site, and, obviously you don't have a clue what you're talking about. Don't give up your day job.


You should be careful what you read around here... it assumes some level of knowledge and you should just go repeating what you read without adding in your own experience. FYI, Guys "sanding" cylinders are generally removing aluminum deposites from Nikersil or sometimes hard chrome. Nikersil needs diamond to hone it out. Chrome isn't honed.

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

 

[Lakeside53]

"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - Homer Simpson

Fact: Sappy is an idiot!

You mean that's remotely true, or untrue?

 

[LarryTheCableGuy]

I think that it depends on which way the wind is blowing, or not.

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[THALL10326]

I think that it depends on which way the wind is blowing, or not.

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lololol, which way is the wind blowing today,lololol. I've been reading this thread and took alook at some of the links Ultra posted. For what that stuff cost to re chrome a cylinder heck I may as well just order a new one and let the fish keep their happy home. No doubt in my mind what so ever Lake knows what he is talking about. As for you Sap, your guns may have turned out nice but my question to you is this. Sap have you used this chrome plating to re-do a cylinder? If so how well did it work and if not then you might want to take Lake's advice and knowledge because when it comes to saws he's in a class by his self. Not poking fun, just stating fact. I don't know of anyone that would even bother to go to all that trouble for a single saw cylinder. Its only a chainsaw, not a dragster. If you can afford the chrome kit and all the time required then you can afford a new cylinder as well, one that is perfect instead of possibly right and may last....

 

[04ultra]

THALL the links I posted are just a few around to show what they do... In most cases your better off buying a new cylinder..If useing the scotch brite filter's you can expect to buy a new saw because the one you use it on will be junk.. :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[THALL10326]

THALL the links I posted are just a few around to show what they do... In most cases your better off buying a new cylinder..If useing the scotch brite filter's you can expect to buy a new saw because the one you use it on will be junk.. :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

I agree, why bother with all that, get a new cylinder and be happy. I guess if you wanted to chrome something as a hobby it would be worth looking into. For something that has a piston going up and down in it 14,000 rpms I'd say get a new cylinder and be safe instead of sorry. As for Scotchbrite as a filter that makes me wonder, makes me wonder whatttttttttttttttttttt. Never heard such a thing. Can you imagine a piece of that getting sucked into the intake and down in the engine, yikes. I think if you need a new filter buy one. If they aren't available anymore make one out of filter materail or something similar, not Scratchbrite, I mean Scotchbrite. It would be safer and probly just as good to make one out of a simple sponge if thats all ya got available. Thats what all the little Poulans use as a fitler, a sponge.....