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Old 01-20-2007 | 09:49 AM
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Default RE: Cross hatching

Cross hatching is for iron cylinders, not chrome or Nikasil...You want smooth so as not to wear out the piston rings...If you had cross hatching on a chrome cylinder the rings would not wear the chrome smooth, the peaks on the cross hatching would wear the iron rings out in short order...The lines you see in a chrome cylinder are the valleys left from the original machining operations...
Old gaskets seal just as well as new gaskets, why not use them ?