Check in on your local machine shops guys

Well that stinks. I picked up my cranks today and found out one of their machinist isn’t coming back. They kinda did him a favor and laid him off because his wife had cancer years ago and he said he was afraid of contaminating her with Coronavirus. Now he isn’t coming back. He worked for another buddy of mine years ago and then in a beautiful new shop after that. He took two years off before this job. So it’s Johnny and the retired guy (cranks only) and Jeff the speed shop counter guy helping out. They left the door open to him till they are forced to hire someone. I threw a Jeff 30.00 and told him to buy the shop some pizza for lunch tomorrow. They were very thankful for the 700.00 worth of work I had done. Heads and cranks. And I thankful for there work.


It’s pretty damned hard to find a good machinist any more for automotive stuff. The smart ones are all working in non automotive shops making much better money with less hassles.

The young guys doing this stuff do the same thing. Or they go to automotive shops doing the most expensive builds you can find.