Vic, my machinist is a fellow Kiwi like me......... Not much older than me, and he is from Bert Munro territory.........Pretty clever chap........His shop is quite small really........with his son and an apprentice there......They have both manual plus CNC machines........lathe and Mill........He loves doing bike work being a bike rider himself, but the small jobs don't pay like the production run stuff.........He is always doing stuff for me..........Some of the repairs he has done for me have been amazing........We always seem to work out a plan to fix these old bikes.........but it does take some head scratching at times........Cheers.