Andy sleeves an AJS cylinder

The very reason that I am researching a cylinder is a result of my rather amateurish attempt at doing a sleeve job.

This was a few years ago after you kindly supplied me a couple of sleeves. I decided to do the job myself on my Little Oriental Lathe (LOL) instead of paying a lot of money to have someone else do it (properly).I bored out the old cylinder (that had a cracked skirt) horizontally, after making up a special faceplate and tailstock jig to keep all as concentric as possible. I made up my own lengthened boring bar to reach down the length of the bore.

It was not a good job that I did, and after an extreme amount of tool chattering, I ended up with a tapered bore. After a lot of honing I managed to get a new sleeve to fit, albeit with some Loctite sleeve retainer(!). It would have been OK had I not screwed things up by trying to make a ring device to locate the sleeve in the crankcase mouth. It wasn't necessary, and I ended up actually silver-soldering a ring on the skirt base. This stupid accessory could fall off one day, and end up in the crankcase's gubbins.

Anyway, I decided that it was good enough for a gentlemanly motor that likely was going to be put out to stud.
The motor actually started for the first time and ran successfully at our CVMG-Montreal Ormstown Rally last summer.
Bill Magnussen, our rally chairman, had the honour of first-start (he has an AJS 600)

I have attached a couple of jpgs grabbed from a video that someone took of the occasion.

I have advertised the motor on the CVMG website, but there have been no enquiries to date. I may have frightened people off by being honest about the bad sleeve job. Therefore, I have decided that it must be done properly with a new cylinder, if possible.

Cheers, Andy