Man is it hard to find a flathead guy in Ok.

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Ok so I have since picking up my first flathead been looking for a machine shop that will work with me on building a flathead without results...... I have a job which I am out and about all day and I take my down time to visit with local machine shops to see if they can help me in my flathead block.... well most I get the No we can’t help you because of the special tooling needed to do "THOSE" engines????And I did find a guy that is a good engine builder but has never worked on a flathead willing to do it..... So what do I do? Do I let the guy TRY out flathead building with my help blind leading the blind so to speak but he has allot of experience in building engines.......I have been collecting flathead tools so that I have everything I need to do the job myself except machining and that seems to be the hold up
Thanks to russ/40 for helping me out on the valves and out of 3 complete engines I think I have one that I can get running by myself with just a hone and new rings and valve lapping
But if all doesn’t go well on this engine Im screwed in the machine shop part of the build…