[Formulajones]

Cranks are another deal all together. Most machine shops, even the good ones, don't have a crank machine. Most shops send the crank out to a crank grinder mainly because of several reasons.

The machine is big
It's expensive
And it takes good machinist to run it which is a full time job by itself.

So it again comes down to finding a good machine shop where you can trust your guy knows who does a good job on cranks and trust his judgement on where he sends it.

Here in Arizona I think there are only 2 or 3 crank grinders in the entire state but there are probably 100 machine shops. I know Paul had his favorite that retired a few years ago. Not sure where that crank machine went. Point being there usually isn't a bunch of choices.

An example there are at least 5 machine shops up here in Prescott, 3 others I know in Sedona and Cordes Junction, They all send cranks to Phoenix, there isn't a crank machine up here. One of my neighbors was a crank grinder and owned the machine. He lived in Payson at the time, retired and sold the machine to someone in Phoenix.