I just check a cylinder to see if the exhaust and transfer ports are properly broken off, so it will not hang a ring and if the cylinder has a good hash in it to help seat the rings. In earlier times I had to break the edges of the ports with my Dremel, but recent cylinders from Farmertec have nicely broken ports and have a good has in the cylinder. All I do now is throw them in my ultra sonic cleaner with a little Dawn to remove any material left over from the manufacturing process. I then blow them off, dry them, put a little oil in the cylinder and put them on the piston and saw with a base gasket and some 1184.
I rebuilt a MS 260 this past winter and used the Farmertec cylinder and piston set. Have not had any problem with it, as yet. It was a Nikasil cylinder. If I have any problems with this cylinder I may consider HyWay but at about three times the cost of the Farmertec it is something to consider.
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Circlips have only given me a problem when I was sloppy getting them in their grooves in the piston, especially on the intake side, which is why I always put the intake circlip in first. I have developed a procedure to make sure both circlips are in their groove and retained by the wrist pin. The wrist pin has beveled ends and the circlip is retained under these bevels. I take an old wrist pin and insert it in the piston so it is up against the end of the new wrist pin and circlip. I then tap it a couple of times with a small hammer. Then,I do the other end of the new wrist pin the same way. If the circlips were not under the end of the bevels they will be after this procedure. I have not lost a circlip since I started using this procedure.
