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I've done a lot of this sort of thing before on my aero engined cars but making carburetors from scratch is a whole new ball game.
Sometimes it can be really frustrating. I managed to get a really beaten up but correct Bosch fuse box. I patched it up with filler until it was 100% then made a latex rubber mold from it. I then cast a new pair in resin (well I cast about 20 and then I got everything right and made a perfect pair - definition, colour, rigidity). About a month later a contact in Holland sent me an email - he had found a mint pair of originals, NIB. So all that work and I still ended up spunking out £500 for a pair of originals basically because I would never have been happy with repros when it could have had the correct thing. Still there will be a few repros for sale on my stand at Beaulieu in a couple of weeks.