Originally Posted by
Roelof
The coating will make the pin a few microns thicker, you have to take away some microns from the pin or otherwise drill up the conrod. We keep it by a hard metal pin pressed in the crank, no wear at all.
Roelof, no offence, but I have done this plenty of times. In the States I had found a galvanic shop that was able to hard chrome only the crank pin and this worked perfect.
It is absolutely clear that the pin has to be lapped after coating.
The problem is, that most coatings won't work.
I would like to get back to my original question, please!