I beat so many of my competitors by running their "junk" parts that it finally got difficult to get anything from them, even if they were planning on throwing it away. A "worn out" 60 over block with all sorts of trick machine work done to it could always be sleeved back to stock bore, and I had a boring bar! Still got it, BTW!
Jerry

"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!