Hello Toby, RE the CATERPILLAR box. I forwarded this video to my friend, Dave Hoffman, who now runs Hoffman Construction, the addressee of the box. He recalls, as a young man, picking up shipments of parts for his dad’s multiple 2U, D8s. It’s amazing how a cardboard box survived all these years to become a Collector’s item and touched the life of one who likely had his hands on it half a century ago! Keep up the good work.. WH from CA
Just a note on shipping with Greyhound. A little more than 40 years ago as a student at the University of Minnesota I worked evenings as a courier driver. Monday through Friday I picked up Tractor parts from an Allis Chalmers Parts distribution center as well as a Ford tractor parts distribution center both about a mile apart from each other in Southwest Bloomington. Most of the parts I picked up got dropped off at the Minneapolis post office. But every day there were some larger parts that went to the Greyhound bus depot in Minneapolis. Apparently, Greyhound could quickly get them to another Greyhound depot near the dealer and the dealer would make regular trips to Greyhound to pick up those parts.
Fantastic video Toby. You found alot of great finds. But 60 bucks for that H crank, cam, and gasket kits was a steal of a deal! Nice to see senior found some great finds. And yes senior should do a video for us. Thanks for sharing your finds Toby. Looking forward to the future videos. Cheers
Great finds @squatch253! I'd jump all over that cam, crank and gasket set myself. You can't machine a used crank for 2x what you paid for the lot there. You guys both hit the jackpot with your finds.
Always good to see and hear Sr on the episodes. Find ways to feature him more often. You two together are always interesting, educational and inspiring. Great scores at the swap meet. Congratulations.
I retired from Hoffman construction from Black River Falls WI . Great company started around 1920 still one of the largest highway contractors in WI. Always been mostly Cat equipment. Pat from northwest WI
cool swap meet finds , the center drawer on the machinist box is for the machinists handbook , good content and edit. Great to see Senior in another episode of the Squach Files
I love the wooden box. If it was a Gerstner it would be a pot of gold. They still restore their wooden boxes to OEM. Highly sought after by machinists. I have the exact same Starrett indicator in the same sliding toolbox. I would love to see a close up of the boring head . It looks like someone took a small compound slide from a lathe and made a boring head out of it.
My high school had a heavy equipment class. A past teacher liked to go to military auctions to get equipment. We ended up with a 7m series d7 and a 2u series d8. Both of which had mags very similar to those. Sparked a happy memory. Very cool. (I was in high school like 2 years ago, they still have equipment that old)
It's that fellow from the UK again. What a fascinating collection of bits and pieces, especially that set of micrometers. Your vids. are such compulsive viewing, keep them coming.
Excellent video Toby :) SR& JR also very good finds and all wonderfull prices to pick at sales ! I think both you get all need for vechiles projects too and did excellent!
Our Super M had that big metal pulley on it just like the one you showed. Also our H had the smaller paper pulley you show. Brought back alot of memories of filling silo as a youngster. We had a long table blower that folded up and was belt driven by usually the H then latet the Super M. Forage wagon had a cable driven push out the back cause the back opened up to feed the blower and you help feed it with a hoe like forks. The wagons used a portable drive unit we would connect to push the chopped grass or corn out the back.We had a barn fire in the mid 60s and lost all our equipment that was stored inside . Luckily we only had 1 tractor in that old barn the rest were in storage in other areas. So we bought all new forage and hay equipment. Ended up with a PTO driven New Holland blower and 2 Gheyl forage wagons and chopper. New Holland rake baler and sickle bar mower and a New Idea crusher. I started to miss the old belt driven blower but not those old wagons. Our first live pto tractor was purchased then also which was a International 460 gas. It replaced the M doing the bigger jobs. Little trip down memory lane.
Very enjoyable. Reminds me of the time I spent with my dad tinkering with old tractors. We never went to a swap meet but we did spend some quality time in tractor salvages.
According to my master “where used” parts index microfiche - the 356943R1 pulley was a factory option for W-6/WD-6 (and technically O-6 orchards) , Super M/MD and Super M-TA / MD-TA tractors !
LPS3 is a great modern parts coat I have liked in the commercial world. Its no cosmoline, but takes 2 seconds to remove with LPS1 or pretty much anything like WD40.
Re: Magneto with Key Lock without Key. Pretty sure you can 'foil' that lock. Contact Lock Picking Lawyer or Bosnian Bill for a helping hand on that. So making a new key should be easy.
What I would not give to have been there. You guys got some excellent finds! My wife has box envy! You guys deserve every single wonderful thing coming your way. Thanks for sharing.
Toby, thanks soooo much for honoring my request. I really enjoyed seeing what you and Sr found. So many interesting things. Much appreciated video. Thanks
Fascinating. Words are hard to find for what you have acquired. Priceless comes to mind. Perhaps Christmas has come early this year. I doubt if you would find many parts and useful acquisitions like this in ten to twenty years time. Well done.
Those headlight brackets are a sweet find. Reproduction parts are a nice option but getting original parts is so much nicer. I think X231 will purr like a kitten for you once she realizes that you're going to treat her like a queen.
Some good finds! I kind of wish the weather was better when I was there so vendors would have had more things out to see and they were more willing to get out and talk to people instead of huddling around a heater trying to avoid eye contact so they didn't lose their place at the heater.
Wow, the price for the crank, camshaft and gaskets was a steal! We have a Gerstner machinist box like that one your Dad picked up. Back when we found it we didn't have luck finding a key.
Yep for that money I was plenty willing to take the chance on those pieces still being good. The way I figure it, some items I end up overpaying for but others I manage to get a great deal - so hopefully it all evens back out in the end lol 👍
Looks like some good goodies you found their! That caterpillar box is vary cool especially that it came from my part of the country! You spell it this way ( EauClaire). But you say it this way ( O Claire )!
What an astonishing collection! I am eagerly looking forward to Squatch's dissection of the first magneto you found. Although I know the principle on which they work, magnetos have always been something of a mystery to me, especially the device many of them contain to boost the spark when the engine is turning slowly on the starter.
What a sweet review from you and Senior. The micrometers are a sweet deal, these can cost a lot if you wanna get a complete set. 20$ for a NOS crankshaft? What a deal , that is almost as paying just scrap price for the thing. Also the NOS pieces should be very good quality stuff to put into your tractor. Excited to see the magneto rebuild and thanks for adding the picture of where it exactly was located on the tractor. I wonder what that giant belt pully was used/designed to drive? Maybe a very big trashing machine?
On the Bright Side for that Armature Tester? Its 110% Repairable. About the only part in it that >will< need to be deeply inspected and probably replaced is... the wires due to corrosion, at its age it can be green to the middle in a few places and be real brittle, ohm it out and flex the wires and it'll tell you if its bad. Also the Capacitors typically turn to goo inside and when you apply any juice to them they smoke and pop.... or pop then smoke. Still repairable, even if it blows up. Old School test equipment was 110% repairable, most of the parts were off the shelf at ... *sigh* Radio Shack, or the Rexall Drug Store.... damn I'm old.
Pretty awesome finds for Senior! It is an amazing thing to find all those NOS parts. It just makes you wonder how much of that stuff is floating around still. That pulley is pretty big! I will have to check the pulley on the 27 D, now. I'm curious!
12:22 always a pleasure when Sr. is on the channel. 14:40 beauty! Those are really good quality calipers. That's heirloom grade. I have the next size up set myself and am piecing a set of smaller ones as well. 16:01 that's a great looking box, honest one. Nobody has tried "fixing it up", which usually ends up messing them. I have steel ones, because i'm 110% afraid i'd break a wooden one. I still haven't touched grandpa's box, cleaned it out, put some preserving wood oil on it and left it be. Too much of a klutz for these gems. I hear a little bit of wallnut core rubbed on the bottom of the wood rails helps with sliding the drawers when they're loaded to bear. edit: for the key, figure out which of the boxes that is (brand that is) and then look for the keys online. People have repros and means to figure out which you need for most of these old boxes. All of my steelies came without a key and the online community got me keys for each and every one of them.
5:13 That's a super nice score! That's basically the bend or break of an engine (at least in my opinion). You can fudge the cylinders, you can fudge the rest... but if you don't have a crank and cam. You're to the mercy of the winds. Noice!
Great finds! If you know what you're looking for, you can find the diamond in the rough! Speaking of Greyhound... When I lived near Shawano Wisconsin, the main reason the bus stopped there was to pick up liquid nitrogen tanks from 21st Century Genetics. Some high quality dairy genetics riding on the Greyhound with you.
Hey Toby, think seniors larger wooden toolbox is the same manufacturer as one that Adam from @Abom79 worships. I think he had them restore one of their own toolboxes … might be worth touching base with him? Love to see Senior go through the rebuild on channel too.
What a bunch of great finds. Really like Senior's machinist tools. I've used the same Starrett bore gages for years. I've watched and enjoyed your channel for years but don't believe I have seen the object at the back of the table with "Holt" cast into it. Do you know what it was used for?
I know you like the look of the belt pulley on the tractor, my dad and other old timers always said to remove the pulley when not in use to prevent the weight and unnecessary wareon the bearings of the pulley drive.
They had a similar trick with the old Caterpillar starting engines, where they’d wedge a wooden shim beneath the heavy flywheel to hold it up off of the main bearing so that it wouldn’t be vibrating while the tractor was operating. Fortunately, with so few hours being put on these machines now, it’s not a concern anymore 👍
Squatch Snr and Squatch, You are bith lucky guys finding things you need for your projects. I have now just learnt that you have a farmall W-4 my question is what else do you have and with out being rude is it possible to maybe one day you have ALL the goodies on display for ALL your fans to see them in the light of day??, I reallyenjoy watching all your tube uploads and when felling down ( work issues) I come home and view random videos of yours to lift my spirit, Thank you BOTH gentlemen. Pete form Australia
Squatch did good. Senior made a haul! Some vary interesting items that’s for sure. Might have to add a extra wheel weight on the other side of the M to keep it from tipping over with the big ol pulley on there!
Pretty much all inline 4 and opposed 4 engines 4 stroke engines have been using "flat plane" cranks forever. (VW engines and horizontally opposed 4 cylinder aircraft engines also have 180 degrees between crank throws) Anything else would have an uneven distribution of power impulses around the crank rotation. "Flat plane" really only has significance in the context of V-8 engines, where there are other arrangements. If it's a crank for an L4 engine, you'd be hard pressed to name an L4 engine whcih doesn't have the throws all 180 degrees from each other.
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Hello Toby,
RE the CATERPILLAR box. I forwarded this video to my friend, Dave Hoffman, who now runs Hoffman Construction, the addressee of the box. He recalls, as a young man, picking up shipments of parts for his dad’s multiple 2U, D8s. It’s amazing how a cardboard box survived all these years to become a Collector’s item and touched the life of one who likely had his hands on it half a century ago! Keep up the good work..
WH from CA
small world
That’s so cool! 👍
Thats amazing, the reconnection after all these years, decades.
That little tall drawer in the middle of Senior’s vintage oak machinists chest should accommodate a copy of Machinery Handbook.
It is amazing how you two find those unique items in all the junk at that show. "One man's junk is another man's treasure."
The vicarious bargain hunter in me just loves episodes like this. I can almost smell the history 🙂
Love those old school wooden boxes
Some nice finds well done gents
Just a note on shipping with Greyhound. A little more than 40 years ago as a student at the University of Minnesota I worked evenings as a courier driver. Monday through Friday I picked up Tractor parts from an Allis Chalmers Parts distribution center as well as a Ford tractor parts distribution center both about a mile apart from each other in Southwest Bloomington. Most of the parts I picked up got dropped off at the Minneapolis post office. But every day there were some larger parts that went to the Greyhound bus depot in Minneapolis. Apparently, Greyhound could quickly get them to another Greyhound depot near the dealer and the dealer would make regular trips to Greyhound to pick up those parts.
Fantastic video Toby. You found alot of great finds. But 60 bucks for that H crank, cam, and gasket kits was a steal of a deal! Nice to see senior found some great finds. And yes senior should do a video for us. Thanks for sharing your finds Toby. Looking forward to the future videos. Cheers
I echo all your sentiments.
Great finds @squatch253! I'd jump all over that cam, crank and gasket set myself. You can't machine a used crank for 2x what you paid for the lot there. You guys both hit the jackpot with your finds.
Great video, Squatch you did well but Senior knocked it out or the park. Some really important machinist stuff.
The front door of that machinist box is made to slip in the gap between the bottom drawer and the bottom of the box.
I just love the smell of swap meet finds in the morning!
Always good to see and hear Sr on the episodes. Find ways to feature him more often. You two together are always interesting, educational and inspiring.
Great scores at the swap meet. Congratulations.
That machinist wooden box is great! A bunch of neat finds.
I retired from Hoffman construction from Black River Falls WI . Great company started around 1920 still one of the largest highway contractors in WI. Always been mostly Cat equipment.
Pat from northwest WI
cool swap meet finds , the center drawer on the machinist box is for the machinists handbook , good content and edit. Great to see Senior in another episode of the Squach Files
I love the wooden box. If it was a Gerstner it would be a pot of gold. They still restore their wooden boxes to OEM. Highly sought after by machinists. I have the exact same Starrett indicator in the same sliding toolbox. I would love to see a close up of the boring head . It looks like someone took a small compound slide from a lathe and made a boring head out of it.
My high school had a heavy equipment class. A past teacher liked to go to military auctions to get equipment. We ended up with a 7m series d7 and a 2u series d8. Both of which had mags very similar to those. Sparked a happy memory. Very cool. (I was in high school like 2 years ago, they still have equipment that old)
Some great finds
It's that fellow from the UK again. What a fascinating collection of bits and pieces, especially that set of micrometers.
Your vids. are such compulsive viewing, keep them coming.
Great finds , thanks for sharing 👍💨💨
Thank you for taking the time to show us your finds😊
Excellent video Toby :) SR& JR also very good finds and all wonderfull prices to pick at sales ! I think both you get all need for vechiles projects too and did excellent!
Best part of swap meets: Finding things you need, then finding what you don't need, but can still use, then finding the things that have extra value.
All great stuff. Enjoy your finds
Great haul for you and Sr.!!
Our Super M had that big metal pulley on it just like the one you showed. Also our H had the smaller paper pulley you show. Brought back alot of memories of filling silo as a youngster. We had a long table blower that folded up and was belt driven by usually the H then latet the Super M. Forage wagon had a cable driven push out the back cause the back opened up to feed the blower and you help feed it with a hoe like forks. The wagons used a portable drive unit we would connect to push the chopped grass or corn out the back.We had a barn fire in the mid 60s and lost all our equipment that was stored inside . Luckily we only had 1 tractor in that old barn the rest were in storage in other areas. So we bought all new forage and hay equipment. Ended up with a PTO driven New Holland blower and 2 Gheyl forage wagons and chopper. New Holland rake baler and sickle bar mower and a New Idea crusher. I started to miss the old belt driven blower but not those old wagons. Our first live pto tractor was purchased then also which was a International 460 gas. It replaced the M doing the bigger jobs. Little trip down memory lane.
Very enjoyable. Reminds me of the time I spent with my dad tinkering with old tractors. We never went to a swap meet but we did spend some quality time in tractor salvages.
According to my master “where used” parts index microfiche - the 356943R1 pulley was a factory option for W-6/WD-6 (and technically O-6 orchards) , Super M/MD and Super M-TA / MD-TA tractors !
LPS3 is a great modern parts coat I have liked in the commercial world. Its no cosmoline, but takes 2 seconds to remove with LPS1 or pretty much anything like WD40.
Hey Squatch, those were some great finds. Thanks for another interesting video.
Excellent video....nice finds, especially that wooden box
Re: Magneto with Key Lock without Key. Pretty sure you can 'foil' that lock. Contact Lock Picking Lawyer or Bosnian Bill for a helping hand on that. So making a new key should be easy.
What I would not give to have been there. You guys got some excellent finds! My wife has box envy! You guys deserve every single wonderful thing coming your way. Thanks for sharing.
15:50 The middle drawer is for your copy of Machinery's Handbook.
Look at that smile on Sr. Over that carb!
Senior and I are of the same vintage. 49 model here. If we only new what to keep back then.
I can relate to that 52 vintage here.
Love the wooden tool box, what an excellent find.
Great finds! Thanks for the video Toby!
Toby, thanks soooo much for honoring my request. I really enjoyed seeing what you and Sr found. So many interesting things. Much appreciated video. Thanks
Fascinating. Words are hard to find for what you have acquired. Priceless comes to mind. Perhaps Christmas has come early this year. I doubt if you would find many parts and useful acquisitions like this in ten to twenty years time. Well done.
Those headlight brackets are a sweet find. Reproduction parts are a nice option but getting original parts is so much nicer. I think X231 will purr like a kitten for you once she realizes that you're going to treat her like a queen.
Some new old stock 😻😻😻😻😻 awesome finds congratulations 🎊🎉🎈 that’s wonderful. Couldn’t have gone to a better home. 👏👏👍👍👍👍
Some good finds! I kind of wish the weather was better when I was there so vendors would have had more things out to see and they were more willing to get out and talk to people instead of huddling around a heater trying to avoid eye contact so they didn't lose their place at the heater.
This was a fun video to watch. Thanks for following up on the request to do it!
Wow, the price for the crank, camshaft and gaskets was a steal! We have a Gerstner machinist box like that one your Dad picked up. Back when we found it we didn't have luck finding a key.
Yep for that money I was plenty willing to take the chance on those pieces still being good. The way I figure it, some items I end up overpaying for but others I manage to get a great deal - so hopefully it all evens back out in the end lol 👍
Looks like some good goodies you found their! That caterpillar box is vary cool especially that it came from my part of the country!
You spell it this way ( EauClaire). But you say it this way ( O Claire )!
What an astonishing collection!
I am eagerly looking forward to Squatch's dissection of the first magneto you found. Although I know the principle on which they work, magnetos have always been something of a mystery to me, especially the device many of them contain to boost the spark when the engine is turning slowly on the starter.
Excellent haul guys great stuff
Yes, Sr needs to get on the single cylinder work.
Excellent video I have the same valve seat grinder set up. Swap meets are fun to go to and look for stuff. Keep up the great videos
You fellows done very well, enjoyed the video, thanks Squatch
That front cover on the wooden machinist box slides under the bottom drawer
HELLO from Las Vegas Nevada
Good video
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Those are nice picks, like that metal box Sr got and the lever style dial indicator. Cheers from New Zealand.
Y'all both made out like bandits. Great finds
I have a Kennedy machinists tool box that is very similar. Exactly the same locking mechanism.
What a sweet review from you and Senior. The micrometers are a sweet deal, these can cost a lot if you wanna get a complete set. 20$ for a NOS crankshaft? What a deal , that is almost as paying just scrap price for the thing. Also the NOS pieces should be very good quality stuff to put into your tractor. Excited to see the magneto rebuild and thanks for adding the picture of where it exactly was located on the tractor. I wonder what that giant belt pully was used/designed to drive? Maybe a very big trashing machine?
On the Bright Side for that Armature Tester? Its 110% Repairable. About the only part in it that >will< need to be deeply inspected and probably replaced is... the wires due to corrosion, at its age it can be green to the middle in a few places and be real brittle, ohm it out and flex the wires and it'll tell you if its bad. Also the Capacitors typically turn to goo inside and when you apply any juice to them they smoke and pop.... or pop then smoke. Still repairable, even if it blows up. Old School test equipment was 110% repairable, most of the parts were off the shelf at ... *sigh* Radio Shack, or the Rexall Drug Store.... damn I'm old.
The Farmall AM in Australia all used the stell pulleys I have many of them , I would of loved taging along with you at the swap meet .
That nut box is awesome! You always find the coolest stuff at those swap meets.
Wow 😳 you certainly got yourselves some great parts at some very good prices 👌 excellent video 👍
Pretty awesome finds for Senior! It is an amazing thing to find all those NOS parts. It just makes you wonder how much of that stuff is floating around still. That pulley is pretty big! I will have to check the pulley on the 27 D, now. I'm curious!
12:22 always a pleasure when Sr. is on the channel.
14:40 beauty! Those are really good quality calipers. That's heirloom grade. I have the next size up set myself and am piecing a set of smaller ones as well.
16:01 that's a great looking box, honest one. Nobody has tried "fixing it up", which usually ends up messing them. I have steel ones, because i'm 110% afraid i'd break a wooden one. I still haven't touched grandpa's box, cleaned it out, put some preserving wood oil on it and left it be. Too much of a klutz for these gems. I hear a little bit of wallnut core rubbed on the bottom of the wood rails helps with sliding the drawers when they're loaded to bear. edit: for the key, figure out which of the boxes that is (brand that is) and then look for the keys online. People have repros and means to figure out which you need for most of these old boxes. All of my steelies came without a key and the online community got me keys for each and every one of them.
You guys got some great finds
Great to see all the treasures hauled home from the swop meet
cool box and large nuts lol
5:13 That's a super nice score! That's basically the bend or break of an engine (at least in my opinion). You can fudge the cylinders, you can fudge the rest... but if you don't have a crank and cam. You're to the mercy of the winds. Noice!
Gotta love them FARMALL TRACTORS ,really cool stuff right there .😊
Great finds! If you know what you're looking for, you can find the diamond in the rough!
Speaking of Greyhound... When I lived near Shawano Wisconsin, the main reason the bus stopped there was to pick up liquid nitrogen tanks from 21st Century Genetics. Some high quality dairy genetics riding on the Greyhound with you.
Looks like a good score to me. It's always interesting what seniors up to!
Wow what a deal on the NOS H/W4 parts
Hey Squatch,,,some pretty nice finds. The big box from Cat is not a surprise. It's a Caterpillar,,it's gotta have big,heavy nuts.
Now you need a Cat 30 to go with the mag. Maybe you already have one.
So lucky that you can get this stuff . Awesome video Denis from santa rosa ca .
Oooooooooohhhh……………cosmoline! Be still my heart! Can’t make up my mind which word is cooler…..cosmoline or glyptal?😂
Love it. Thanks.
Thanks for the fun video. I hope you find some more good stuff.
I love this video. Swap meet finds now a days where I'm from are few and far between. Glad you two racked up
Always love seeing Senior.
Thx just thought you may have known but if you see them around would like a shout. I have several case tractors that I am restoring.
Dang I wish the Pawnee show swap area had as much kool stuff.
My mom started at Caterpillar in East Peoria, Illinois in 1950
KO tool box is awesome!
Hey Toby, think seniors larger wooden toolbox is the same manufacturer as one that Adam from @Abom79 worships. I think he had them restore one of their own toolboxes … might be worth touching base with him?
Love to see Senior go through the rebuild on channel too.
"C/O Bus Station"... Nice...
What a bunch of great finds. Really like Senior's machinist tools. I've used the same Starrett bore gages for years. I've watched and enjoyed your channel for years but don't believe I have seen the object at the back of the table with "Holt" cast into it. Do you know what it was used for?
That is a counterweight off of a vintage Holt Whirlwind windmill 👍
@@squatch253 Thanks for the response. I did not know Holt built windmills. Live and learn.
I know you like the look of the belt pulley on the tractor, my dad and other old timers always said to remove the pulley when not in use to prevent the weight and unnecessary wareon the bearings of the pulley drive.
They had a similar trick with the old Caterpillar starting engines, where they’d wedge a wooden shim beneath the heavy flywheel to hold it up off of the main bearing so that it wouldn’t be vibrating while the tractor was operating. Fortunately, with so few hours being put on these machines now, it’s not a concern anymore 👍
Score! Nice finds!😊❤
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Hoffman Construction is still in business, they still run mostly Caterpillar equipment.
Neat to know! 👍
Yes please. Single cyl thumper please.
Well done
Squatch Snr and Squatch, You are bith lucky guys finding things you need for your projects. I have now just learnt that you have a farmall W-4 my question is what else do you have and with out being rude is it possible to maybe one day you have ALL the goodies on display for ALL your fans to see them in the light of day??, I reallyenjoy watching all your tube uploads and when felling down ( work issues) I come home and view random videos of yours to lift my spirit, Thank you BOTH gentlemen. Pete form Australia
I love the smell of cosmoline in the morning.
The front cover on Senior's box slides into the opening under the drawers. You probably knew that. lol
Squatch did good. Senior made a haul! Some vary interesting items that’s for sure. Might have to add a extra wheel weight on the other side of the M to keep it from tipping over with the big ol pulley on there!
lol yeah one extra rear weight on the left side 👍🤣
Yup,,I see a bigger pulley on the M about the time paint hits the H.
That was fun.
Wow that was great
Great finds for you both, You both have a great eye for parts and finding good deals.
Flat plane crank shafts have become all the rage for high performance engines but Farmall has been using them for years.
Pretty much all inline 4 and opposed 4 engines 4 stroke engines have been using "flat plane" cranks forever. (VW engines and horizontally opposed 4 cylinder aircraft engines also have 180 degrees between crank throws) Anything else would have an uneven distribution of power impulses around the crank rotation. "Flat plane" really only has significance in the context of V-8 engines, where there are other arrangements. If it's a crank for an L4 engine, you'd be hard pressed to name an L4 engine whcih doesn't have the throws all 180 degrees from each other.
@@andrewalexander9492 I know. It is sarcasm.