* Major Rant! *
Scat, Callies and a host of other big name companies get most of their cranks from China. They do the finish machining in house - probably because they can get better tolerances that way (just a guess).
Wylde1.
Please provide a link to any forging house capable of forging quality crankshafts left here in the U.S.
Regulations seems to have caused all of them to close their doors.
Scat lost a ton, (literally), of forging dies when the forging house they used was closed down.
The mills producing quality steel here in the U.S. have suffered the same fate.
Scat turned to England for quality steel, and Germany for quality forgings.
When the forging house in Germany decided that 1000 pcs. was too small a quantity, and wanted to make 5000 pcs. the minimum run.... where do you go from there?
I guess you think they should have closed their doors too.
Instead, they gritted their teeth and found a company that uses quality steel and good methods to produce good forgings.
Where do you think the current production of crankshafts for Chrysler, GM, Ford, and the rest of the auto makers come from?
Environmentalist and regulators have pulled the guts from this country.
Many of the companies were models of how to do things the right way,.... but between the unions, green people, and regulators, the cost of staying in business meant being in the red year after year.
Please provide a link to any forging house capable of forging crankshafts left here in the U.S.
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