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They did and do make steel cranks.
Either spend a lot of time trawling bicycle jumble sales and find some old road cranks (you may also need to find a cottered bottom bracket) or see if you can fit some BMX cranks to your bike.
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with steel you usually need to use welds and get a different set of problems.
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If alu works for all the track sprinters in the world I think they're fine for the rest of us.
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Why doesn't anyone make steel cranks? I've done a pretty extensive search and most cranks (even the ones at £300 - £400) are made from aluminium. Surely steel would not be susceptible to this kind of 'shear' failure?