So the old timers around here will remember the days when Old Lycoming cylinders were taken to a cylinder shop to be overhauled, or to have a valve replaced, or to be re-honed. A complete engine overhaul would have four chromed cylinders, cracks were welded - everything was repaired. A used cylinder had some value!
Nowadays, I?ll admit that with a complete ?Cylinder-in-a-box? (cylinder, valves, piston, etc) Costing about $1400, its sort of a no-brainer to me to just put in everything new at overhaul time. Which leaves us with a bunch of old jugs sitting around! Are there any shops that want them bad enough to at least cover shipping? I made a desk lamp out of an old one once - nice lamp too, but I don?t need four of them!
Right now I am sitting on eight O-360 cylinders, all at TBO, and curious if their only value is hangar ballast....
Paul
Nowadays, I?ll admit that with a complete ?Cylinder-in-a-box? (cylinder, valves, piston, etc) Costing about $1400, its sort of a no-brainer to me to just put in everything new at overhaul time. Which leaves us with a bunch of old jugs sitting around! Are there any shops that want them bad enough to at least cover shipping? I made a desk lamp out of an old one once - nice lamp too, but I don?t need four of them!
Right now I am sitting on eight O-360 cylinders, all at TBO, and curious if their only value is hangar ballast....
Paul