What's on your bench now?

I ordered and received an oem Echo vent. Hoping to route a line up to the carb box and have it in there somewhere. Just have to figure out how to get the line “in” the tank.

 

It’s been awhile since I worked on that 346 but if I recall I left the actual cintered metal vent in tank and it was just a bare line that went into the air box. So I left the line out of the box and put a regular echo style vent on end of hose left it outside the air box and plugged the hole in the box. Been running 2-3 years that way now in the neighbors saw.

 

Cool, thanks.

 

My bench is on the bench now. I needed a place to make/sharpen chains, so I put this spot together. I had the steel cabinet, cedar posts, OSB and some scraps of laminate flooring on hand already. All I had to buy were a couple 2x4’s and a box of screws from big box orange.

 

I’m assuming the grinder gets pulled to the front edge when in use? I tried to mount mine back like that once and if the chain wasn’t hanging it would consistently bunch up and not up making it a pain especially longer chains like my 36” ect. What do you think of that square jig? Wondering how good it actually works for the money.

 

The grinder is alright where it’s at. Between the oak board it’s mounted to on top of the 2x4’s, it’s elevated enough off the table top to let the chain not get in the way.
That square jig is pretty good. So far I like it, although there’s a bit of manual eyeballing and holding the chain in place while you grind. I never ran a Silvey but I assume that would be a lot more hands off, having a positive stop to bank the cutters against. For $300 it was a good investment for me though.

 

More forward progress on the 372xp rebuild. My coworker powder coated the cases and cover last night:

Tonight I assembled the cases:

Of course I had to mock it up to get a preview of what it’s going to look like. I’m not too sure about the color scheme but it’s going to have to grow on me; I’m committed now…

 

Hey that’s a square filling jig isn’t it