It's only 10AM, and it's already been one of those days.
I got my crank all polished up the other day. It took a while with the "shoe string" method, but it looks (looked) pretty good.
When I was done I wrapped the journal in heavy paper and tape so no harm would come to it. I did a "trial fit" in the block, and did the gasket shuffle until I got the TRB play set up correctly. So far so good.
Yesterday I reassembled the piston and rod. I heated the piston to about 350F first and the pin went back in with no problem.
This morning I reinstalled the cylinder studs in the block and was getting ready to put the rod, piston, and cylinder on so I could check things for square and see what the piston/head clearance is and get the correct stack of cylinder base gaskets figured out.
I removed the tape and paper off of the crank journal. I turned to the work bench and picked up a wrench. I turned around with wrench in my hand and accidentally hit one of the newly installed head studs with the end of the wrench. The wrench was knocked out of my hand, dropped down into the block, whacked my newly exposed crank journal, and bounced out the inspection hole and onto the floor.
Now there's 2 tiny little dings on the journal. Nothing big, and they should polish out just fine, but CRAP, I thought I was past that part already!
sigh.....