Originally Posted by
vroooom ptssssh
It's not just the crank your balancing though, it's the whole rotating assembley. Who knows how in or out of balance it is until it's on the machine. for £95...is it really THAT big an issue not to check it?
He said £95 to balance the crank. Not the entire rotating assembly, part of which sounds like he doesnt even have yet.
And then there is the issue of whether they actually know how to operate the machine !
just because a machine shop says they can do something, and charges money for saying they are doing something, doesnt always mean they can !
There are some good machine shops out there, but there are 100x more crap ones. And the crap ones dont have a sign outside saying they are crap.
So as he has done absolutely nothing to the crank to warrant balancing it, I'd be leaving it well alone.
And as you've also said, you cant really do any single item, you need to do the heap.