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Does plating a cylinder change the castings properties?
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[QUOTE="MikeS, post: 673846, member: 18813"] Curious as my black cloud follows me. First I am not complaining here as I have no issues with the plater or Eric's services.. I have a big bore RM85 that Eric has done. History goes like this: 1. Sept 2002 O3 Cylinder made/plated at factory. 2. Oct 2002 Eric bores and replates it. May 2003 Bike Overheats BAD. Eric hones cylinder (says it is warped but it may last for a race or 2) (N/C... THANKS ERIC) 3. June 2003 Eric sends it out for replate. The process is flawed and cylinder needs to be bored some more to clean up warping. It is replated Again. 4. Thicker coating is applied. (N/C for rebore and replate as the warpage got overlooked. Only got charged for a normal replate) Sept 2003 Plating falls off after approx 6 hours of race time. 5. Oct 2003 Replated again (2 days ago) ( N/C Thanks Eric and US Chrome) Well Yesterday I recieved the cylinder as promised (THANKS AGAIN ERIC). Last night I assembled everything. I torque the head bolts in 3 stages with a Good Torque wrench. The 2 rear head bolts pulled the threads out of the cylinder. Well I put 2 heli coils in. I assembled it again and the front 2 pulled out. OK ... I installed 2 more heli coils. I have not assembled it again as it got late and I was POed. I plan on getting some new bolts/studs this morning just incase. Junior has a race Saturday (tomorrow) morning. [B]My Question here is can all that plating (5 times) cause the threads to become brittle ?[/B] Mike [/QUOTE]
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