Cost is the killer to get started then lack of work coming in , then the talent to do the work on a vast array of MFG"s . Just like around here there are only a couple left and those that are left are working with equipment that some of it is older then i am . At one time i had a close friend that i have known since 1959 that had a shop that he built from the ground up , had the newest equipment all state of the art . Dick worked like a dog day in and day out . He did this up till he had a heart attach then slowed down a bit . He tried to teach and get his kid into it BUT Jr. had no desire to work or learn . Dick had a new state of the art line bore set up that could handle up to a V 16 Diesel or a little two cylinder lawnmower engine . He had a stationary boring bar that would also deck the block or ya could use it for milling heads , Here again ya could do a 3 Hp Briggs and Strattion or a V16 diesel . totally computer controlled . once you made the set up put the operation in and pushed the big green button you walked away and did what ever . when it was done it would shut down and beep at ya . After he had his THIRD heart attach he offered it to me for a bargain basement price of a quarter mill for lock stock and barrel and i could work out of his shop for a year till i got a new shop built in a good location that would meet state and EPA requirements . It's those requirements that will kill you . The only thing he did not have was a crank grinder and to have one you need one guy that grinds cranks 8 hours a day five days a week to make it pay and here again ya have to be able to do from the little ones up to the monsters . I could run everything but i was not as fast on line bore set up . as doing a true line bore over a line hone like what most places do now days takes more set up time . Line boring you want to take more meat from the cap then the block , line honing takes it from both it is fast to set up but also sets the crank deeper into the block and this will cause timing gears to set deeper into the mating gear loose timing chains and raise pistons up in the bore . anybody can set them up , grind the caps , put the caps back on shove the bar thru and set the stones and grind away . Not so easy with a bar. So ya want ot do this you better have some spare chump change layen around as even with a friendly banker that has handed you money for other crazy idead before knowing you were crazy to start with would now know you really went off the deep end wanting a half mill. . And what dick offered his place to me for was what he gave for just the boring bar and it was only six years old at the time. . We had another shop close up here lately and his stuff was auctioned offbut was nowhere near what Dick had . So now that leave just three little shops . And if you are in a hurry to get something done it ain't ah happening .
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