[GreenKeys] Super Cleaning

[Tom Jennings]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 23:25, Craig Sawyers wrote:

> > I took the thing up to the counter, the guy took a look at it for no
> > more than 15 seconds and asked if I needed the same brand or not.


> Well, it turns out that the laminations are still made!  Back in wartime
> Germany, they had chosen a lamination size that later became standardised in
> the ISO range of transformer laminations.  So I got a stack of them sent
> free of charge from a fairly local company that stamps laminations!

Ahh, the age of interchangeable and standard parts! It's ending, alas,
as microproduction and small-run customization becomes practical, but it
really is a great thing. Disk brakes from the late 1980's bolt on
without modification on my 1963 Rambler! Now that's interchangability...

A friend just found out that a very recent Cadillac Northstar 32-valve
V8 engine is *not* rebuildable -- no oversized pistons are made for it.
R & R a V8!