2008 October 25: Pistons and front forks (4.00 hours)

• The matched set of pistons from Mark Etheridge of Moto Guzzi Classics arrived in Thursday's mail. Mark sent me a great matched piston and I am very pleased.
• Although I've not done it before, I decided to send both pistons out to Swain Tech Coatings to have the dome coated with a ceramic Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) and the skirt coated with a durable piston skirt coating (PC-9). I'm certain this isn't necessary, but it can only help and it doesn't cost very much to try. I removed both wrist pins, boxed up the pistons, and mailed them out later this morning.
• Removed the paint from each front fork leg using my wire wheel...this was a lot of work.
• Just barely started polishing on one front fork leg. Decided I was tired of fiddling with fork leg polishing and quite for the day.
• I'm more convinced than ever that I need to build myself a vibratory polisher or a rotating tumbler polisher.