kalicar85:

fyi I am in palo alto and have a dissassembled 617.952 all cleaned up
and machined, so if you're curious to see what the internals look like in
hand, you're welcome to drop by. There are other projects ahead of it,
so I won't be assembling it for a while. When it gets started, I'll be
posting a lot of newby questions to this forum.

Stuart