Bring even the most "impossible engines back to life for little cost! You are no longer limited by the price and availability of replacement pistons and rings when you can make your own. Design and make pistons for new or old engines. Use inexpensive modern piston rings on your antique equipment! Learn to make all the tools and jigs needed to quickly produce top quality replacments in your own back yard. Heavily illustrated. A must have for antique equipment restorers. Book 5 of Chastain's popular "Small Foundry Series."
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Steve Chastain holds Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science degrees from the University of Central Florida. He is the author of the popular "Small Foundry Series," which is sold in over 30 countries. He publishes several articles per year regarding machine shop practice and small foundry work. He runs a foundry and machine shop that produces parts for antique automoblies. He has also worked as an OEM in the electronics industry.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Informative and to the point. Very useful info on the art.,
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This review is from: Making Pistons for Experimental and Restoration Engines (Paperback)
A great little guide book for making medium-size pistons.
It does not get too far into equipment, but that is GOOD, because the foundry and machining arts are really separate subjects that are already well-covered by common textbooks. This book covers only the basics in the art of piston making. A slim book, but it provides to-the-point invaluable 1st-hand knowledge into piston designing & piston fabrication, which are specialties not covered in most engineering books. The author's web site referenced in the book is cool, too....
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Contains information not easy to find,
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I own a VW, Audi, BMW, and Porshe repair shop and I also work in a machine shop at night. So when I started looking into a custom motor conversion I found myself needing to make pistons and not wanting to $600 into trying to have custom pistons made for something that might not even work. This book isn't a fluffy this is kind of how you do it deal, it shows technical information I've never seen about piston acceleration, temperatures, and ring placement on the piston. It's an easy to understand cross between engineering, mechanics, machining, and sand casting. The information contained about piston acceleration, tolerances, temperatures, and ring placement is nearly impossible to find anywhere on the internet. I stumbled upon this searching the net looking for information on designing pistons and I found almost nothing except this book, which contains everything I'm looking for. For the price it's a steal and I plan to buy his sand casting books now as well.
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Steve Chastain writes good books. Clear, understandable and practical info. I will buy more of his books.
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The simple looking piston performs many functions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
piston blanks, groove cutter, pin bosses, core box, machining allowance, head thickness, radial thickness, boring bar, piston head, ring belt, tool bit, ring grooves, second land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The simple looking piston performs many functions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
piston blanks, groove cutter, pin bosses, core box, machining allowance, head thickness, radial thickness, boring bar, piston head, ring belt, tool bit, ring grooves, second land Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Metal Casting New!
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