Inliners International Forums Thread Like Summary - Crankshaft Repair

Watched this over coffee this morning. He takes what most would consider scrap and puts it back to work.

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His use of pins seems to be for alignment as his welds seemed to penetrate quite deeply.




He as quite a few videos on YouTube showing repairs on all sorts cranks - some of the them from huge engines for boats and heavy equipment.

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I'm not on facebook so I can not view the video. This is interesting and I have watched many videos of people making repairs that seem amazing by today's replace the part standards. My father was a journeyman machinist, a welder, a well driller, a farmer, and a mechanic. When I was a child I spent a LOT of time with him when doing all of this things. All of this was in rural Texas where replacement parts were often days away and work needed to be done. I never saw him weld a crank shaft but I saw him FIX things in ways that are not the norm today. I wish I had not lost him so soon. Once I herd him tell a customer, "If someone can build that surely to God I can rebuild it!"