The lifters arrived today- - - -nice, brand new, and 16 of them to boot! I'll only need 12, but the price was right, and if the idea works, maybe that liquidator will have a few other sets of the same part. The steel tubing I ordered to make the reducer bushings from is stuck somewhere in a post office in Arizona!
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!