Sorry fellas, I just realized the pictures would need uploaded to a hosting site prior to being able to post them here. I'll figure out how to do that but in the meantime. The pictures were of milkcrates full of connecting rods which I'm assuming would be what we used to call #1 prepared? Not sure what it's called now days. A picture of a 55 gallon barrel full of aluminum pistons that have been completely stripped of rings, wrist pins etc. So would this be considered cast? Or is there a different category that pistons fall in? and is it worth the 1-2 minutes it takes to completely clean each piston of the rings etc? There's a few thousand pounds of crankshafts. Would it be worth the 15-20 minutes each of pressing off bearings etc?