Anyone turn your own crankshafts? on a lathe? The Home ...
A crankshaft grinding lathe is a pretty large and involved chunk of machinery. If your lathe can swing enough, you could get away with working just the mains on a regular machine, assuming you compensated for droop and sag. But to do the throws requires some wild equipment The one I saw essentially had a large faceplate with a movable head that slid sideways on a micrometer track kind of .