Thread: What to do with this piston?

give it on to someone and let him/her have the headache on what to do with it

The Curse Of The Piston.

Go all Bert Munro, melt it down and make a new piston

Give it to someone who just acquired a piston grinder to practice on.

OK, enough chuckles.

How about this one ?

Cut a slot in the piston crown, put a hunk of pipe through the gudgeon pin bush, stick it in the ground, and hey presto you have the most interesting letter box in the street.

Rob.

Originally Posted by nearnexus

OK, enough chuckles.

How about this one ?

Cut a slot in the piston crown, put a hunk of pipe through the gudgeon pin bush, stick it in the ground, and hey presto you have the most interesting letter box in the street.

Rob.

There is a letterbox down the road from us done up as a sheep. It may have a gas cylinder as its base underneath the makeup but it looks like a huge amount of effort has gone into it. We have BIG letterboxes around these parts.

Would the letters fall out the back (bottom) of the piston?

Mount the piston on a slowly revolving base attached to a block of your favourite polished wood (or metal) and stick a clock in one side and a barometer in the other.

Dean

OK, thanks for the suggestions fellas. I've ordered the 50mm clock on eBay. That seems to be the easiest way of putting this thing to use.

I drilled a hole in the top of a small (5") aluminium piston with the idea of making a light stand, when I got back to tap it, the hole had collapsed and need to be redrilled! Must have been a lot of internal stresses left from the original casting?
Graeme

Originally Posted by anglesmith

I drilled a hole in the top of a small (5") aluminium piston with the idea of making a light stand, when I got back to tap it, the hole had collapsed and need to be redrilled! Must have been a lot of internal stresses left from the original casting?
Graeme

Graeme
I am sure Mr Vic Duncan, our metalwork teacher at Ashy Tech, would have had an answer to your problem.
regards
Bruce

Just a couple more ideas.

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I just had to include the light red one!

Dean

My cousin used to do desert/off road baja buggy racing and they always used to give the driver who came last or had the biggest wreck a trophy made from a destroyed piston as a momento

They used a small piston (or what was left of it) mounted on a wooden stand and they looked good as a trophy.

Also cost nothing to make.

Rob

Worlds biggest gear knob

What about a can crusher?

Originally Posted by pipeclay

Bad luck its only small, the larger ones make a good outdoor coffee table and seats.

Now THAT would be cool...

K.