Nathan, it is a fairly simple carburetor, with parts easily available, and that makes it a good one to practise on.
There are limits to what is worth attempting: I once decided to clean out a very complicated car carburetor that was also obsolete and had never been sold in Australia (it was a Rochester 4-Jet, the predecessor of the well-known Rochester Quadrajet). It had 4 float bowls and more bells and whistles than an F18, but it worked miserably: it had tip-in hesitation, probably due to some kind of fault in the accelerator pump. I dismantled it, and lost the aluminium ball that was the accelerator pump intake valve. I went to the 'main man' on carburetors for an aluminium ball, and he refused to sell one: he wanted to do a full overhaul, which cost me a fortune. It did improve the hesitation problem, but at an outrageous cost.
You aren't likely to have any problems of that kind with a flo-jet: you can get the parts easily. In an emergency, you could even get another carburetor.
