[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Sooo true -

In addition, the store/shop where I used to go as a kid, also had a small machine shop in the back, that would grind valves and mill heads.

Also, they were a source of information. For example, they introduced me to the plastic wire/tape to gauge how to shim piston rod bearings and to a miracle device to compress piston rings, so as to get the pistons back into the cylinders -

Yep, did drums and disks, valves and heads. Now places like O'relies are just wax and grease places.