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

 

All back together. It’s too late at night otherwise I’d try to fire it up.

 

Looks good Eric.

 

Thanks, hopefully it runs good. I’m a little nervous being my first full rebuild. Actually I’m reasonably confident minus the feeling that I may have prolapsed the crank seal on the one side when I put that bushing in. I’ll find out soon enough. I do have another set of seals if that’s the case.

 

That looks really good Eric! Did you make that pattern on the bar? The plastics turned out great.

 

Thanks. Yeah the jeweling on the bar I did in the drill press with a rough scotch brite pad on an arbor. I had my buddy do a clear powder coat on that to keep it from rusting. This was my first time dyeing plastics too, and I was surprised how easy it was.

 

I fired up the 372xp this morning and it ran pretty well. I’m waiting for a couple odds and ends to come in then I can tune it in some wood.

Not wanting to waste time, I’m jumping right into grandpa’s old 61 I have a Meteor piston/ring coming in later today. While it’s apart I need to put in a new on/off switch, and I’ll probably do the crank seals. This saw (as far as I know) hasn’t been serviced since it was brand new. Having sentimental value, I don’t want to play with this saw, so all I’m doing for performance is a base gasket delete and smoothing the inside of the piston. Crank bearings still sound good.

 

The Meteor piston and crank seal/gasket kit from Wolf Creek came in yesterday. I got to work on smoothing out the piston a bit.
Baseline weight:

After a little massaging:

About 0.7 grams of aluminum were shed. I’ll have to check the OEM tomorrow to compare the Meteor against.

 

Checkout the AV also. Those are soft have seen them degraded.

check AV’s too. Soft and degraded. I’ve had unexpected throttle movement because the rear mounts let the tank/handle hinge too much, causing the throttle rod to follow

 

I replaced those mounts back in September, thanks

 

This was unexpected. I was all happy yesterday shaving 0.7 grams off the aftermarket piston, when the factory piston was actually SEVEN grams heavier. It doesn’t have the windows in the side, which is probably where most of that weight is coming from. I ended up splitting the cases on this saw today and ordered crankshaft bearings, plus a rim sprocket conversion kit

 

This morning I got the bottom end back together on the old Husqvarna 61.

After dinner tonight I went back down to the lab and hammered out the rest of the assembly. All that’s left is to spray paint the muffler, install it and I can fire it up. That’s a tomorrow job.

 

Nice job bud. I sure do like the style of the old Husqvarna saws.