hack work or me being too picky?

[spring snow hero]

first and foremost I did not take pics so bear with me.

I loaned a buddy a mic set to measure up a new piston/jug that he had replated. his jugs are ported pretty heavy on the transfers and he tripped a ring. he sent it in to get fixed. what they sent back was unacceptable in my opinion. the jug was welded up and it cracked. so they rewelded it....and it cracked. and apparently they gave it a couple more shots.....the last one looks like they were finally preheated enough that it did not crack.

in the end there is a deffinate fracture line that looks like it could drop a piece the size of a quarter into the crank at any time. as an expierienced welder I can't even imagine letting work like that leave my shop....let alone charging a guy for it.

is it acceptable to recieve a hacked repair job or what?

in the shops defence they did get both holes replated within a quarter thou of each other. the bore looks great, the stuff behind it scares the crap out of me.

 

[89sandman]

tell your buddie to buck up and buy new cylinders. if they were in that bad of shape to start with he shouldn't have tried to have them repaired. i'm sure the reason he tried was because of all the money he spent on the port job, and if he wouldn't of had it done so aggresively he probably wouldn't of had the problem in the first place. like the old saying goes there's never enough money to do it right the first time but always enough the second time around. not sure what kind of deal you had going with the machine shop, but if they needed welding they needed to be scraped imo. wouldn't put a welded jug on my sled...

 

[devilrmk]

Sounds like they should have returned the cylinder unplated for no charge.

 

[sled_guy]

I just got my 910 cylinder back from Carl's that had Millenium weld and plate it. It was in BAD shape when I sent it. A junk the size of a quarter was missing out of the bottom of the front transfer and one of the tabs that goes down in the case was broken off.

It looks PERFECT. I figured it was junk, Carl's said to send it to them. Millenium did a terrific job.

After seeing this one fixed I can't believe there is a cylinder that couldn't be fixed that at least has all the important pieces still there.

sled_guy

 

[spring snow hero]

it sure wasn't millenium, that's for sure. I agree if the shop did not feel confident that they could do it........send it back, or to millenium aparently.

 

[catman01]

Unacceptable in my opinion! I definately would not use them again!!