I bought a low hour 4 mil 110 rod crank, stock cylinders with a 4 mil dune port and wiseco 65mm pistons from Travis. First things first, Im not ranting on how bad of a seller he is I want to just let people know when purchasing this kind of high dollar parts from him to be sure to have him package it really good. I got the box in the mail and it was in rough shape, with nothing that resembled the word fragile. Everything was closely packed together in a medium sized keurig coffee box. His idea of well packaged is wrapping each individual part in saran wrap and rationally stuffing brown packaging paper in the box. The crank looked good as it was on the bottom of the box, Im just hoping the box was never dropped. The cylinders were next. The bore was nice as described but there was alot of chaff marks on the rim of the cylinder where the head/o-ring seats from bouncing around on the crank. I was able to file the burs down. Hoping I wont have to JB weld them to make a good seal with the coolhead. Next was the pistons. There were knicks and dings all over the skirts and the top edges of the piston. They are not usable. I pm'ed him asking him why he sent the parts parcel post with no insurance. it took 24 days for me to get the box. He said it was packaged well when it left his hands and had nothing else to say. I ordered new pistons from rocky mt atv ($209) and will be throwing the ones he sent in the scrap pile.
Im not down grading him or anything other than the packaging. Like I said before, I just wanted to forewarn people on making sure the box is packaged well when it leaves his hands.
It doesnt appear he wants to work anything out with me. Use stirefoam, bubble wrap, packing peanuts, shop rags, and ship it "priority mail" and package them as if they were coming to you to use. Future reference, compress the rings and put the pistons in each cylinder, and write FRAGILE on the box atleast. Anyway, Im stoked for the new pistons to get here and to finish my build.