RB Cylinder repair

[eibargum]

get a new piston and send to langcourts (thats who the dealers use) and it comes back in les than a week like new

Langcourts f@@k up when they plated my RB barral, it had to go back a second time .

[JOHNNY]

Have to agree with eibargum , sent mine away to be repaired and they f@&k it up , repaired barrel bit of welding then replate , lasted all of a mile before the plating came off where the repair had been carried out and trashed another piston , not cheap at £160 a pop ! What makes it worse was we sent two barrels down so I had a twin of mine to swap to if anything ever happened to mine , so two went down two came back different sizes, so couldnt even use the spare barrel ! and the cheeky feckers even charged for there cock up ! Not happy! would never use them again !

[mark]

they are the only one in the country to do nicasil lining so you will be buying new every time then

[Ian Hepworth]

aptec

[mark]

i thought they only did ceramic coating ,i stand corrected

[Ian Hepworth]

i thought they only did ceramic coating ,i stand corrected

They only do ceramic. Given the choice I'd go ceramic.

[mark]

any chance you can explain the benefits and pitfalls please , i have heard of both both not had it explained in common english . im sure others are interested as well

[Ian Hepworth]

any chance you can explain the benefits and pitfalls please , i have heard of both both not had it explained in common english . im sure others are interested as well

choice is more to do with who does the plating really. I don't know enough about the differences to explain.

[JOHNNY]

Were hoping we don't have buy new again, but you don't just buy a rb barrel at 270 cc of the shelf. If anything happens again then we'll go ceramic

[voicey]

Cheers for all the replies folks. Yes my barrel needs re-lined, the nikasil plating has been damaged in four separate places. I tried honing it but it's beyond it. Thanks again guys.