Roy Witt wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 RW> That method used to be required on valves that were ground on a
 RW> machine made for the job. Then someone discovered that if you make
 RW> the seats one angle and the valve another angle, they seat within a
 RW> few miles of firing up the engine again. e.g. 45 degree seats and
 RW> 46 degree valves or vice versa, I forget.

That is true, but the most difficult thing we did to a flathead Ford engine
was scraping the carbon off the piston heads.  And I thought the valve job
was tiresome!  (-:

 RW> That was in my junior year. For my senior year I got a job in a
 RW> supermarket stocking shelves for 95 cents an hour. I was making a
 RW> whopping $1.20 by the time I graduated.

A long time ago, I had a job offshore (14-out, 7-in) making a whopping 90
cents an hour.  I got seasick on my first trip out by crew boat, but never
rode in one again.  The company decided to bring us back and forth by
'copter.  After the first 14 days, I remember falling asleep in the 'copter
on the ride back to Leeville.  If you've ever been in one, you'll wonder
how that happened with all the noise they make, but I was dead tired. 
After three months of that working 5am to 5pm shift, I called it quits. 
Besides, the guys I bunked with were crazy.  They'd stay up to 2am playing
cards and go to work with only three hours sleep.  Darn near froze to death
that first deployment.  They had the A/C thermostat set as low as it would
go.

Regards,

Roger 
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