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Put that crank in a chuck and straighten it...!!!


It will rise from the great beyond...!!!

I was once working overtime on an emergency repair as a machinist's helper in a refinery, and we had to stand around waiting for the engineers to decide what to do. While we were waiting  my machinist took a bent lawn mower crank from his locker, chucked it in the lathe, heated it, gave it only a few strategic raps, and it was straight again. "Lucky," he said, but I was still impressed enough to remember it from some 53 years ago....