Grinding a crank with Dads portable crank grinder

Here are some pictures of grinding a crank with a portable crank grinder. I had not used it to grind a crank for almost 50 years. We use to grind cranks in the car back in the day. Most of the time it was just one rod journal. We had a big crank grinder we used when the crank was out of the car.

This is not the best way to grind, but I wanted my mains with no run out. Most of the cranks that I have had ground by some one else, run out at the flywheel, and crank gear.

The mains are done, but forgot to take a picture of that setup.
Just another way of doing things.

A picture of rod piston and crankshaft that let go a 5000 rpms at the hill climb.
This is a model A crank

 

Very cool George! We have had a couple threads about this.

 

I am the proud owner of one of these, in car crank grinders, that belonged to my father and was wondering what it would be worth?

 

We had an in-car grinder at the Enco station i worked at in the 60's... it was old even then!

 

Tman, any links to the other threads?
I have an older sunnen unit that is missing some of the mounting hardware to
do a "drop the oil pan job".

-Torr