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Originally Posted by flatrod
When I started in the machine shop business back in the 70's, we had a crank welder. It was a machine you set stroke and it wire feed wire on the crank to build it up. Welding could of been done without a machine, have seen it done. I would guess that in the 40's if strokers were made it was welded up and ground most likely to 2" journals.
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Very interesting. Were you able to weld up cast cranks with that machine back then?
My crank grinder today can weld up cranks but not cast cranks.
As a kid I used to go to the machine shop with dad and watched Knobby (I still remember his name) welding up cranks but it was a spray weld process sprays powder onto the red hot crank.