Originally Posted by dparks

All,
Just a liittle more info. I grew in the little town of Conneaut Ohio ( 13 miles from Astabula) - lived in the area from 1958 to 1998. I worked for 22 years at one of the "re-inforced fiberglass auto parts plants" - Trans Plastics. Our company was part of a larger company that also owned Ashtabula Bow Socket for a period of time - I also think they were once called Ashtabula Forge. Anyway, I had the opportunity to go into the ABS plant and watch them make the Astabula cranks. Hard, hot, and dirty work as I remember - harder than my work in fiberglass! Little did I know that I would be handling some of their cranks years later on my rebuild projects.