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Wow, that’s incredible - very nice and rare find! Those drills are really neat!

It was a vintage syrup tin.

Painted and ready for mounting.

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...

Thanks for all the research David, this is very helpful! I’ll have to take another look at the M6 threads. Mine shouldn’t be any different than yours. At least now with the correct pitch sizes I can start hunting for the correct screws.

Not sure exactly what possessed me to jump into another chainsaw as my next project but I figured it was time to finally go through the Mono-Line. I got it all disassembled today. The gearbox is set up differently than most of the Orline saws. The chain sprocket is to the outside. Unfortunately a previous owner cut the crankshaft flywheel nut and ground it and the end of the shaft flat. A few of the threads are broken off too. It’s bad enough, and seems overly brittle, I’ll need to replace it if I can hunt down a used one. The screw that holds the chain sprocket was also cut in half, makes no sense to me... I can’t figure out why either of these modifications were thought to be necessary, frustrating when people do stuff like that.

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.

Interesting, good to know. That would explain things... thanks for the recommendation! I found a seller on eBay that looks to have a few pre-1967 JIS screws, might be worth a try if I can narrow down the size.

Excellent, thank you. I need to get myself a thread gauge one of these days... they have to be metric (JIS), just not sure why the standard ones at the hardware store don’t work

I came across one of these for the first time just recently, ended up replacing it with a plastic check valve.

Yep, I was fortunate enough to land this one as well. I actually want to use this one some and I have a project in mind. The first one is way too nice to use since it’s almost new condition, I plan to keep it in good condition.

I’m missing one of the small screws on top that holds the cooling baffle/cover to the head and then I’m missing two of the main screws that hold the crankcase cover together (see just below each corner of the red cover with the J-12 decal).

Got it back together, that was a pain! Now I just have to finish the recoil cover and it’ll be ready to try.

Just got back from the local hardware store and found something very close. Good idea about the string- I’ll see if I can do something like that.

Indeed, you need another four hands for this operation. It takes two hands just to align the windings with the bearing while fishing the wire through and everything As it all slides together. Then, just as it engages the bearing you’re suppose to somehow use a dental pick through the front of the bearing hole, while also holding a flashlight, to push down the brush and slide it all together. One little slip and snap... just like what happened to me!

Bad news, while trying to get everything lined up to put the generator parts back together the little brush bot pinched and snapped Hopefully I can find a suitable replacement.

Ha, tell me about it... This was a busy week with work and kids getting back to school- not much time for O&Rs. Are you seeing any daylight yet on your end to get back to some O&R projects?

Making some good progress on rebuilding a Life-Savr. The paint on the recoil spring cover is in really poor condition and flakes off in chunks when you touch it so I’m repainting that piece. It was so saturated in oil and grease that the paint failed. I think the rest of the paint on the recoil cover will hold up a little longer and I want to keep it as original as possible. I’ll be putting on a new decal since the one on their basically chipped off and was pretty faded. Thanks to JustO&R I was able to buy a new front shaft seal (Timken/Nationals 342805), looks to be a perfect fit. Fortunately I had a couple NOS induction case gaskets, the ones that are slightly thicker material - kind of like the cylinder head exhaust collector gaskets. The recoil rope reel was also damaged but I was able to find a used spare one in my parts stash. Should be able to start reassembly and finish the painting today.

Very cool, always fun to see these in action even if they’re finicky! Thanks for adding the video for us.

Some carbs use 1/16” and some use 3/32”.

David, That J-22 is super nice, wow! It looks like based on the orientation that it may have been set up for use on an outboard. I’ve seen several pictures, mainly from Australia, with some cool outboards using this style engine. There is a video on YouTube of one as well. I’ve also noticed that several of the screws don’t seem to be common metric threads. I’m missing some on mine and haven’t been able to find replacements, definitely not standard M4, M5 or M6 anyway...

Yes exactly, that’s the photo in the manual that always got me confused! I’ve always installed the bearings like you suggest, opposite the manual diagram.

Yes it does Yes, starting to get tough to find the missing tools but there are several so the hunt continues...

Decided to experiment with finishing out a crude soup can gas tank. I bought something a long time ago and it came with a soup can that was mid way through being made into a gas tank by the previous owner. I have the bug to start learning how to solder so I thought I would give it a go and try to finish it up. With a bit more practice I may try to make one entirely from scratch using a can that is a better copy of the O&R tanks. This one is literally a soup can. The can had a hole punched near the filler hole so I just soldered the intake tube there rather than making another hole in the bottom. Since the hole was too large for the 1/8” brass tube I ended up using a piece of 5/32” for the main pickup and added a small section of the 1/8” for the connection to the 3/32” fuel line. I’ll probably just use this tank on one of the engine test stands.