What's on your bench now?

Today’s $30 flea market find. A solid old school bench grinder. I can’t tell the brand but it weighs around 50 pounds. Runs silky smooth and has a ton of power. I laid into the wheel truing it up with my dressing stick and it didn’t bog one bit. Much better than some Harbor Freight model.

 

I buy nowlin match 1911 mainsprings for 1911s that have to heavy a trigger pull
They are 3 for 15.00
I've used a couple dozen over the year's to help with trigger pull without touching the sear engagement

I try to get them under 4lbs
Usually in the 3 1/2 pound range
I've had one in a 1996 kimber since I bought it new
Got some conduit for a target stand

 

Sometimes these things seek me out…
An old buddy of mine that I hadn’t seen in about 5 years had this 61 sitting under his bench doing nothing. He was just going to give it to me, but I didn’t feel right taking it for nothing. In the end I bought him an 18 pack of Budweiser and one of PBR on the way to picking up the saw. He likes his beer and I like my greasy old 200 series Huskies. So… The PTO side case is no good, and it needs a recoil, a piston/ring, AV mounts, another handlebar, ignition, and a slough of other odds and ends. As luck would have it I already have a bunch of parts that will fit it. I think long term I’m going to put a 266XP top end on it, but for now I’m stealing the top cover to put on my 61/272. It looks like the plastic should clean up nicely.

 

Nice score Eric! The beer was a really nice gesture.

 

Not on the bench yet, but soon. I found this abomination on eBay at an okay price and inspiration hit me. I needed a PTO side case for the 61 project, which this thing already has. I didn’t want to run the 61 top end I had, so I’m pulling the cylinder, intake setup and carburetor from this 670. Since Husky impulse lines are routed through the cylinder, intake block and into the carburetor, and Jonsered go from the cylinder using an external rubber hose to the carburetor, I’m using the entire Jonsered setup. Long story short, I’m building this Husky 61 into a 67cc Jonsered in orange. I know the choke setups are different but I’ll worry about that when I get to that point in the build. I already have a meteor piston for it on hand too, just need to buy a Caber ring, and crank bearings. Frankensaw round II.

 

My “abomination” parts saw came in today. After getting the cylinder cleaned up and honed, I see that the base and combustion chamber were already cut on a lathe. I’ll have to check squish before the final assembly.

 

Is that all? Any grinding on the ports?

 

Surprisingly no, the ports were left untouched. I might polish the exhaust port but otherwise I’ll just run it.

 

Lots of learning going on today. I’m liking this. It’s a good thing I’m test fitting everything before the actual assembly process. One of the biggest differences between Husqvarna and Jonsered 200 series is the intake setup. The Jonsered uses a rubber boot around the intake port of the cylinder, which I actually trust more than the Husqvarna intake block that bolts to the cylinder. Heat transfer issues and all that. But sitting that cylinder and rubber intake boot down into a Husky case isn’t quite plug and play. Comparing the two cases side by side, I can see I’ve got to grind that valley in the casting lower on my orange cases. That and add a tapped hole for the intake boot hold down. Other than that, my crankshaft bearings will be in later today, and I already have crank seals and a gasket kit. I should be assembling the bottom end tomorrow, then next week my piston and ring should arrive and I’ll get the top end on.