Uncle Tony's response to Direct Connection

You're only making the point that what was **** 50 yrs ago...is still **** today.
Tools are everywhere, cheap too. Buy a bore gauge and lend someone a machete in the jungle instead of a pocket knife...
Show them right, not dicey time consuming marginal results that vary type of ****.
Auto machine shops have been around as long as the automobile. Do it shitty, half *** or the right way. That's your choice if you champion '****' and romanticize long nights pumping a drill up in down , squaring and measuring a worn 'oor' ring.

Back to Tony ...and this goes for all....you ever hear the old saying/adage
"you were good in your time"..?
I don't hate the guy,but I dont remember reading anything earth shattering from him in any magazine. Most things if you just buy about 3-4 books are all covered and clearer than smoke n farts from tony.
I have better, more productive ways to kill time than to watch a guy who's long past his prime and fading into a fart cloud.

No hate. Just not impressed. Not interested in those stories much anymore.
Dont look back... look ahead.

The point I made was ten thousandths is taking off five.... and five thousandths is nothing....Do you agree or not? Buy a bore gage? I knew one guy who owned a bore gage and he wasn't about to lend it to anybody.....They cost big dollars back then and it wasn't until overseas imported stuff hit these shores that measuring tools became affordable
Anyone who depends on a scripted TV show like Uncle Tonys to learn how to work on cars will never amount to much of a mechanic and that includes every show out there today.......Learn the way I did by reading watching doing it making mistakes and correcting them.....The same way I learned my trade
Maybe you had the dollars to take a engine to a shop and have them rebuild it and great for you, some of us weren't in that position and we learned and made do