My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(07-16-2018 )Rawze Wrote:  More accurate than a genuine B&S?

I was just going off the listed specs - there's a reason dad kept his tools hidden from me.

(07-16-2018 )Rawze Wrote:  Like you say, it is the person taking the measurements that you have to worry about lol.

I worry about me all the time. I'm no machinist, and despite the label coming up a lot for some reason, I don't consider myself a perfectionist. I just try to do the best job I can with my abilities. Patience is not one of them, and as I've found, precision measuring (and body work) are both something I don't enjoy any more than absolutely necessary. Milling and woodwork is not relaxing at all to me, but I managed to take rough cut lumber and make all of the mouldings and trim for my house. Satisfying, yes, but if money was no object I'd have gladly bought the finished product and bitched about the quality later lol.