I sent him 3 Cox TD .049 cylinders with pistons that were too big and told him to hone them out and fit them without chroming. He talked me into letting him chrome them. After 3 months I called and he said he was having some problems getting the chrome to stick. 2 months later I told him to just send everything back but he assured me it would be done soon and I could hear in his voice he didn't like me calling every month. After a total of 8 months he sent cylinders back and they were different than the ones I sent him. They were all WAY too tight. I found a smaller piston, lapped it down to fit and got one running, it ran like crap. Closer examination of the bore the chrome had vertical channels and gaps that went down to bare metal also chipping on most edges. You could tell they were chromed over and over again with failure each time because chrome doesn't fill gaps it makes them bigger. 3 cylinders with guaranteed compression relief, completely useless. I paid him and put it behind me.
Some time went by. Next was a Rossi .15 MK2 ABC. When I got it back it needed allot of rework. Piston way too tight and had a strange taper in the bore. I would never dream of trying to run it like that. I worked with it and got it running ok but it's not the national level work I know he can do. I paid him.
The last one made it obvious he had a bug up his bum on my account. I made a custom sleeve for an OS Max 18TZ clown race motor and bought a new piston/sleeve assembly ($90) to get a piston for it. I made the brass bore slightly tight with instructions to hone it to his specs then chrome it and finally fit it to the finished bore. What he did was rather unbelievable to me. He didn't hone it bigger before chroming he just chromed it making the bore several thousandth too small. Then he tried to lap the piston down with heavy grit. When I got it back it was still too tight to turn over in the engine, it locked up just as the exhaust port closed and the piston looked like someone took 60 grit sand paper and mauled it to a pulp. The worst craftsman ship I have ever seen. When I complained about it he got mad and said he had done his best work for me and blamed me for the problems huh? He said he would send a refund and never do business with me again. Still waiting haven't seen dime one. Bobby you still owe me $120.
Walt Gifford AKA Motorman