Whatever you decide to make please make it as good as the original. I've been buying reproduction parts for a while now and most of it is garbage. People are spending a lot of money tooling up parts that don't fit. Not sure if the Chinese can't read blueprints or what the problem is but it is really rare to take a repo part out of the box and have it fit and work like an original part.
I agree with this!
How about making it right.
The Chinese and Taiwanese can do it! I've made 1000s of quality parts in China but you need to sit on them to get the quality.
