Questions

["John & Allison Cyganowski" <janah@att.net>]

Say, I have 2 questions about a couple of recent posts:

1.) What is "soda strip"?  I am assuming this is a chemical strip of the 
paint.  Why would you want to do this instead of say a wire brush approach?

2.) Why does one want to lower the block deck height? I assume that this is 
part of increasing compression?  Is shaving the head not enough?  I have 
heard that decking the head removes the block s/n.  Can it be re-stamped?

John Cyg.