" From: <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> " " Boring will run $15 or so a hole. Cleaning (usually done in an oven, no " liquid involved) around $25. If you're going to store it a while wipe " the bores with grease (not oil), and other machined surfaces as well. " Doesn't need to be caked on, just rub it down good -- like greasing a " cake pan. any good machine shop should have an aerosol oil used for preserving freshly cut surfaces. it looks thin, and you don't need much, but it sticks and keeps air out. my engine friend uses it, and if the block will be stored for any time he duct-tapes a trash bag around it. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought