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Painted and ready for mounting.

Stripped the fork legs down yesterday. I'll need new seals and stanchions. The stanchions are well pitted and wont re-chrome. The lower legs will be sand blasted. I met a chap yesterday who's going to let me use his blasting cabinet. It's bigger than mine and the frame should just fit in, if my measurements are right. I'll find out later in the week.

Got the recoil done and all back together. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get it to run. It’s got spark and it sort of sputtered a couple times with the choke but never really got any signs of life at mid choke or run. Sort of seems like it’s not getting fuel for some reason. I mounted a temporary syringe of fuel above the carb and that didn’t work either, even after priming the carb several times. Strange, always a bummer after doing a complete rebuild... walking away for now and will try again another day... Ok, so I just couldn’t leave it alone. It always drives me crazy not being able to get‘em going so I decided to give it another go. I cleared the carb again and adjusted the needle. Fired right up, sounds great! I’ll have to test the generator function the next time I run it. Now I can sleep tonight...

You should have kept quiet, patina'd it and fitted it to an old tool. You'd have had the O&R geeks in a frenzy looking for another one...

It was a vintage syrup tin.

That's a cool tank where did you find it?

Found this cool shaped 8 oz can. It’s a good size and might make a neat tank for a test stand or maybe even with an O&R engine. Got it all sanded. soldered in the fuel fitting And drilled a small vent hole in the cap. Next up is to paint it O&R red.