Begin engine strip-down

I didn't make it over to the spray shop today, so instead here is my work from yesterday evening. I disassembled the outer parts (mostly cast aluminium) from the engine, covered them with a degreaser and scrubbed them with a toothbrush. They were well preserved underneath 49 years of grime. I washed the degreaser away in the kitchen sink as my girlfriend cooked a nice dinner...

I expected total horror from an ancient communist scooter motor, but this engine is better than I would have imagined. It came apart cleanly, the aluminium castings are nice and the piston is marked to an accuracy of two decimal places. Two decimal places, Jeremy... that's insane.