Here is what I have done to the engine.

The cast aluminum parts fresh out of the sand.

Squaring up the cylinder block.

cylinder block and crank frame. The cylinder block is supposed to get a bunch of machine work.

Bored the crank shaft holes with the mill. I'm not following the plans real close as there's a lot of detail work to make it look more like a cast engine. Hey it's already cast so there is parts that show that, like the crank shaft cap that has a rounded off corner that sticks out in this photo.

Tyler, Is the pitting your referring to the small hydrogen holes that form in the metal when aluminum is cast? I still get them they just are not showing up well in the photos.

Here some more stuff I got done. I seem to be having problems with photobucket lately. I've been having a hard time getting it to upload photos.

The cylinder is bored, drilled and tapped the cylinder for the head, milled off the excess on the cylinder. I found some nasty defects when milling the outside of the cylinder.

Milled the base so the rod and crank will have clearance, you can see a defect on the cylinder. I guess there was still some dross in the metal that I didn't see when I was skimming it. I misread the plans and have the crank shaft main bearing caps drilled wrong, Oh well, it still will work the off set was supposed to be on the bottom of the crank shaft supports not the top. Look close and you can see the left crank cap is off set by about 0.002 to it's bottom that is from skipping the step of center drilling the 2 holes before drilling them. I'm trying to hit the marks and missing them, is that where the name for this engine comes from? Hit and Miss.

Using the rotary table to mill the outside of the cylinder round.

Instead of removing the vice I set the rotary table up next to the vice. If you guys decide to get a rotary table do not get the 4" grizzly rotary table Part # H5685. The table is more of a assembled kit in the box even once you get it sort of trued up it's still is way too small and inaccurate.

Here is the worse of the defects on the cylinder.

I've made quite a few mistakes and then I find nasty spots like this! Oh well

One real nice thing is using the dro I can find 0,0 on a piece drill it and then do the same with a mating piece and they will be right on the mark. I have to remember to use the center drill first. No more clamping two part together and drilling and tapping it then hoping all the holes will aline.

Even with all of the Oh! Shi's I'm having fun!!!

More butchering to come.

rleete,If your table was included then that's a good deal. Mine wasn't that expensive but I sure do wish I'd gotten a larger one. This thing was lop sided over 0.050 out going around and worse on it's flatness. I'm just whining about mine, I may have gotten one made on a Monday morning, or else it was a Friday evening?

I did buy it with out looking at it other than on line, if I could have seen it and looked it over I'd have not gotten it. I did look at a 3" one from Harbor Freight and darn sure didn't want that one.

I put all of mine on Flickr Norman. It has lots of groups to do with machinery etc where people just post pictures of tools, machines and projects. Plus there is all sorts of amazing photos of "normal" stuff too.