Big piston ash tray restore and clean

[God mode restorations]

Yesterday I acquired a big piston. It will make a nice ash tray. So it got the usual machinery restorations touch.

 

[My Old Landy]

Very nice I would love one for the mantle but I haven't smoked for 29 years!

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Piston+Conrod+bearing cap would make a nice clock.

 

[Blue Chips]

Yesterday I acquired a big piston. It will make a nice ash tray. So it got the usual machinery restorations touch.

Looks big enough to justify a stand and a carrying handle...maybe a couple of grooves on the top to prevent roll-off?

 

[Blue Chips]

Piston+Conrod+bearing cap would make a nice clock.

Connecting rod as a pendulum?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Connecting rod as a pendulum?

Not the ones I make.....

 

[pressbrake1]

A lathe would have made life easier!

 

[God mode restorations]

All done

 

[God mode restorations]

A lathe would have made life easier!

A lathe pfft. Do it by hand

 

[striker]

The piston ashtrays I've seen and made were cut off at the skirt through the centre of the gudgeon pin hole. They were to be used upside down, with the remaining half gudgeon pin hole used to rest the cigarette and prevent it rolling off.

 

[pawsnizzy]

The piston ashtrays I've seen and made were cut off at the skirt through the centre of the gudgeon pin hole. They were to be used upside down, with the remaining half gudgeon pin hole used to rest the cigarette and prevent it rolling off.View attachment 386675

I've got one somewhere made from a merlin piston

 

[pressbrake1]

The piston ashtrays I've seen and made were cut off at the skirt through the centre of the gudgeon pin hole. They were to be used upside down, with the remaining half gudgeon pin hole used to rest the cigarette and prevent it rolling off.View attachment 386675

When the piston is big enough and it’s got a combustion chamber no need and it’s still looks like a piston

 

[Tinbasherdan]

I've got one somewhere made from a merlin piston

Used to be loads about. Spares+raf mechs makes for a roaring trade

 

[God mode restorations]

I didn't want to cut or ruin the piston. The purpose was to clean it and lightly polish. I put the rings back on. It's still got its originality but I can still use it as an ash tray ect

 

[God mode restorations]

If anyone has visited colchester fuel injection you probably would have seen the massive piston they have inside the shop. It came out of a massive engine that paxman engineering had. Unfortunately paxmans is now finished and is mostly a housing estate. Faffn shame.

 

[keithski122]

A friend of mine gets creative with old pistons.

 

[Erie Fred]

How big in diameter is it ?

 

[God mode restorations]

How big in diameter is it ?

 

[lotus_esprit_s1]

If anyone has visited colchester fuel injection you probably would have seen the massive piston they have inside the shop. It came out of a massive engine that paxman engineering had. Unfortunately paxmans is now finished and is mostly a housing estate. Faffn shame.

I filled a skip with Paxman pistons and heads a year or two ago. Have a running V12 Paxman Ventura at work we rebuilt a few years ago

 

[Anguz]

I may have a few spares after last night
3 trumpton trucks at one of our sites.
We got away lightly