

| Subject: | Re: Chrome Barrels - Iron Rings |
| From: | Chris Mills |
| Date: | Tue, 7 May 2002 12:43:45 -0500 |
Are we talking a home project using fine wire and a welding machine maybe? >Kawasaki in the 80s used what it called Electrofusion in its >motocrosser bores; run a chromium wire 9into the aluminum bore and >run a huge current through it, vaporizing the wire, which then plated >the bore nicely. May still use this process. It IS reconditionable, I >believe. > >More recently BMW was using a similar idea, Nikasil, for aluminum >bores on its bikes. Chris M. <Busbodger - "TEAM SLOWPOKE"> Cookeville, Tennessee ICQ# 5944649 scm9985@tntech.edu '78 VW Westfalia (67 HP -> that is...67 Hamster Power) '65 Beetle - Type IV powered '99 CR-V AWD station wagon '81 CB900 Custom moto-chickle 2.5 Corvair engines for my Trans-vair Conversion
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