Hardness testing
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Incorrigible

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13,668 posts

285 months

Thursday 30th June 2011
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Can anyone recommend me somewhere localish that I can get a cylinder head hardness tested

All my usual engineering contacts are drawing blanks

K-series if anyone's curious

stevieturbo

17,987 posts

271 months

Thursday 30th June 2011
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Roland Alsop Engineering

http://www.yell.com/s/engine+reconditioning-gu14.h...

3rd one down

Incorrigible

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13,668 posts

285 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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Cheers Steve,

Have you got first hand experience of these guys

there are others on that yell list that I wouldn't send lawn mower engine to

MattYorke

4,501 posts

277 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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I don't know if he can do hardness, but my engine is currently with him.

I get super paranoid about paying anyone to do work for me - I get sick and tired of paying someone to do a job and being disappointed with the results.

What I like about Roland was I wrote a spec sheet out of exactly what and how I wanted everything done. Nothing controversial, just the bore clearances I wanted, deck heights, that kinda thing.

A couple of weeks later I popped back to deliver a couple of bits. In conversation, he assured me that he was aware I wanted a job with a bit more attention than normal to detail and promptly recited all the specs I'd written down. So not only had he actually read what I'd written, he'd committed it to memory.

That said, my motor has been with him a while now - I think he's kidnapped it. But I always figure you can only expect 2 out of the follow 3 on a job: A good job, a quick job, and a cheap job. No.1 isn't negotiable, but the other 2 are.

stevieturbo

17,987 posts

271 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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Incorrigible said:
Cheers Steve,

Have you got first hand experience of these guys

there are others on that yell list that I wouldn't send lawn mower engine to
Yes, they've worked on a few Subaru engines for myself and a friend. They do specialist work.

Rude Girl

6,937 posts

283 months

Friday 1st July 2011
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Ben, go to the UKAS website and do a search on testing labs. They are all audited competent.

Can't recommend anyone in your neck of the woods, it's a long long time since I left that game

Hope you are well, C

Incorrigible

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13,668 posts

285 months

Saturday 2nd July 2011
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Cheers, you're all lovely