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Are you sure you are not smoking weed now?

Same thing as “hold my beer”

Chrome plated maybe, or a high chrome content steel minus the nickel.

Yep

Didn’t you get that lathe like two years ago?

Call around to some welding shops.

Cough cough thermic lance cough cough :P:D The pin will be an oxidized puddle of metal in minutes.

Now to get the pin out.

pics or it didn't happen

Done yet?

More heat! Soak’er down in atf and acetone let it sit overnight, get some localized heat on the pin, hit it with some water don’t drowned it just enough to get a good flash steam, reheat and beat. Repeat. It might take you a hot minute or all weekend or call around and get a pro out there for...

Well, best of luck to you.

Call in a pro it sounds like you are under gunned for this fight. There was a no shame in knowing when to call for backup.

I am sure the pin is seized to the sleeve on top of the cylinder. You will need heat but getting it there will be difficult that’s why I suggested the 6010 route.

Thermic lance.

How about taking a 5/32” 6010 cranking the amps to way too hot and getting some localized heat on the pin then melting some wax on it?

I can almost smell the ozone and metal vapor now.

It will probably cost you thousands anyway regardless of who does the repair. Sometimes you have to destroy some smaller things in order to do a repair. Welcome to machinery ownership.

Thermic lance. “ can’t be tight if it’s liquid” Take everything off that can be melted and what can’t be removed wrap in kwool or a welding/fire blanket. Heat and cool in a few cycles with a torch but if all else fails thermic lance is the end all final word on the matter. I may suggest...