Well I felt well enough to spend some time in the workshop today so I attacked the cylinder block casting for the Seal 15cc petrol engine build. I decided to fly cut the top and bottom of the casting and by using a set of 1,2,3 blocks, managed to take off enough metal to just clean them up.

When checking the height on the new granite surface plate (Christmas present form my son Adam and his fiance, Jemma) I was pleased to see that it measured the same wherever a reading was taken from. The casting has not been finished to size but I now have a reference point and by using an angle plate I will be able to clean up the two ends. Not much, but it is a start! A couple of photo's to show what I mean.

Surface fly cut to clean up casting

Checking for accuracy of two cuts - base and top