On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:17:17 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

ALL of us are gonna
die! The important thing is how we handle the time leading up to that
event.

-R.S.Hoover


you're doing a bloody fine job of it.

I post to these exchanges in the deliberate style of a pre-senile
dementia patient. it is so that you can enjoy rebutting the message.
I figure that the mental exercise is exactly the distraction you need.

btw why do you see building an engine as impossible? ...as opposed to
assembling one?
I am an erstwhile model engineer at times and I have done castings
from scratch. I've even made my own furnace and greensand.
making a casting is no harder than making the pattern and core prints
and they're done in wood.
the rest is just ramming up greensand, cutting ingates and runners,
then pouring in molten metal.
its a dark art but it isnt impossible.
controlling hydrogen embrittlement in alooominum castings isnt
difficult.
(no need to raise to this bait. it isnt in presenile dementia mode)
Stealth Pilot