22 May 97 11:03, Hey Rocky! Jack Schwendener pulled engine outta his hat!:
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 RW> RW> JS>>> But Ole Hank whittled out a bunch of them over the years,
 RW> RW> JS>>> until
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 RW> RW>>> Hey, Crower's making billet cranks now...maybe he's got a 409
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 RW> JS>> Seems to me Crower has been making billet cranks for years, I'm
 RW> JS>> sure they could make one for a 409 (but I'm not sure why .... )
 RW> JS>> ;-)
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 RW>> Don't ask me!  I got that second hand from their heat-treaters
 RW>> salesman when he dropped into my shop one day..
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 JS> With a big enough chunk of billet, and enough time, you can make a
 JS> crank for anything. But I can't see doing it when you can get one of
 JS> those one-size-fits-all forgings. But if you can't find a forging to
 JS> start with, sharpen up the carbide.
 You'd need one of those special crank lathes too.  It'd be a big pain to 
have to setup a tool room lathe to offset each and every throw with a long 
stroke.  Even if you could, you wouldn't be able to run it very fast because 
it would be so far out of balance, the lathe would walk right out the door.
Course,  I live close enough to Mexico, I could hire a couple of guys to 
=file= it down for me...:)
... Secreation: hiding something wet.
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