Homemade milling machine well kinda.. Connecting rods 998 and 1098
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most of it was done by a sanding drum on a bench grinder, 400/800 grit then i went with wet and dry 1000 grit by hand, finished of with a polishing wheel on the bench grinder, for doing the centre of the rod i made up a few hockey stick shaped sticks and glued wet and dry to them took ages but i was waiting for parts
i was going to get them shot peened but i didnot get quotes back in time have seen over 7k a few times this year

Yes i moved to the darkside

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well i have done some work on one rod still need to do the inside tricky bits shall have a go the same way brett did his still plan to have the big end turned down i will finish as much as i can first tho to more or less complete a set so far i have lost 64 grams total weight over a stock rod there are still some tinny scratch lines i need to polish out but i think ill weight until the big end is done for that final polish

Wow thats one shiny rod!

I cannot be arsed polishing. Send them for shot peening. Better and faster.

why is it at a dodgey angle?

998 rods, designed to fit down the bore.

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the shine helps reduce weight extra oil just slips off nah i like doing things my self and im willing to polish them up apparently done right its as good as shot penned ones ?

as matty said for clearance

Try to have a look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaLD40VAo8&feature=plcp

and this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RkCY4Gl9c

and pleae consult the yellow bible

If i have more toys than you when i die, I WIN

Just polishing the rod will actually weaken it as you have taken away the hard outer skin. You need to get them peened to replace what you have taken away.

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Isn't it six of one, half a dozen of the other case? The idea of polishing is to remove any barely visible surface cracks or "V"'s where cracks can begin, also reduces weight and less oil sticks to the surface.

With regards to overall rod strength though, conrods don't often fail due to cracking do they? So not sure what the benefit of any surface treatment work is really, usually stretching and buckling that kills them- to my knowledge anyway.

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