[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #1080

[Iopsycheng@xxxxxxx]

Dean, and the rest of you Alfisti
First of all you don't machine a valve shim, you grind it. If it is necessary 
to thin one out all you need to do it go to a good hardware store or a 
gun/sporting goods store that sells high grade knives. Buy a round (makes life 
easier, straight will work) sharpening/honing stone and the oil. Use an old towel, 
sit down in front of the tube or some other boring nonactivity, oil the honing 
stone and have at it in a figure eight motion. Check the progress every once 
in a while and you will very soon not only get a feel for the amount of 
material being removed but you will also learn to make the motions without having to 
think about them. I have been doing this for years. NEVER had a failure.
Thomas Gonnella
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