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Came home this evening to some cool original O&R goodies. This bundle has some original, and very detailed service manuals, several service bulletins and some misc brochures, mostly chainsaws but there are a couple other cool ads. I haven’t even gone through this in detail yet but thought I’d share some pics. David, have you ever seen the Grow Gear Trimmer there in the UK? OO

Glad to hear you got it to fire so easily, that’s not always the case... Was the diaphragm still fairly soft and pliable?

First, Welcome to the forum! Second- $10 that’s an amazing deal on a Tiny Tiger, you’re very fortunate! Third-can you add some photos of your carburetor? We can probably figure out which parts are missing. You’ll probably need a new diaphragm and gasket anyway.

All buttoned up...

That’s a pretty good price but I grabbed a different Lancaster saw last night...

Nice work David, case closed

I might mask off the decal on the chain cover. Still have to paint the recoil cover and probably use a standard decal.

Yep, still hunting. I think I might have a lead on something but still need to acquire and do some testing. Can’t hurt to try an o-ring...

Ok, yeah those little details are probably challenging unless you have some higher end equipment. Since I’m going to have to paint my recoil cover I might just go back with a standard O&R decal. Would be nicer to have the Mono decal on there but o’well...

I do but unfortunately the recoil cover was replaced at some point and it doesn’t have any of the original decal I bought a set of the Mono decals from Sugar Creek, let me dig around for those and check to see if there were two in the package, I only need one for the chain cover... Someone might be able to also use this as a pattern and scale it down for the recoil cover but like David pointed out it won’t be quite like the original. I didn’t think of contacting Jim’s decals or anyone’s else to see but it might be an option. JustO&R: if your decal guy had one of these new decals would he be able to use it as a pattern to make the smaller one?

I’ve even really nice ones sit on eBay for months listed at Buy-It-Now for $350 or $450, sometimes with the case....

Best of luck, I tried contacting them to see if they would scale down the decal as well and never got a response. Never know, maybe my emails ended up in their spam folder... I’m just going to use one on the chain cover.

Just looked at the engine rebuild thread again, very interesting... yep mine just has the open rollers with washers. That seems like a really high stress area to have a plastic cage, maybe that’s why they switched. Plastic or metal? I’ve seen a couple complete but used metal ones on the auction site. I think I might have an extra metal cage but it doesn’t have the little rollers.

Interesting, I’ve never seen a cage with the connecting rod bearings. Seems all the engines I’ve done just have rollers that fit inside the open ends of the rod. All the other bearings on this engine are the plastic cage type.

These are too large for the engine recoil cover but should work for the side cover for the chain. https://www.sugarcreeksupply.net/collections/decal-sets/products/mono-3-5-tree-logo-decal-set

That turned out great, nice match on the color!

Hey now, I’ve actually never lost any rollers, just thought I did on this one because if the deceptive spacing. I’m certain now that this particular rod has the 13 roller set up, no plastic cage involved. The plastic cage I was referring to was for the crankshaft bearing that had a crack in it.

This roller situation may have just gotten a little more weird. Big thanks to JustO&R for providing the spare bearing rollers and plastic bearing cage! Good news is the plastic cage fit great. What is strange is when I started putting the connecting rod bearings back together I tried to use one of the spare rollers and there is absolutely no way to get 14 rollers in there. Everything measures out to be the right size It seems odd to have almost a full roller gap in there but maybe it’s only suppose to have 13. That matches the set that JustO&R reference only having 13 as well. I put it all back together with just 13, guess we will see what happens. I can send these spare spare rollers back to you JustO&R so you’ll have them when you need them in the future.

Seems I generally have to pay $125 or more for just engines as well...

Ha, I saw that as well and was baffled. There have been quite a few Tiny Tigers on eBay lately I’m varying condition but they still seem to hover around $125-175.

I didn’t notice the chain drive at first, that’s pretty cool! David- can you add a photo of the front view?

Here are a couple close-up pics. Looks like it should be a pretty common style cap. In addition to WalMart a store like REI or Container Store might be another place to look. https://www.containerstore.com/s/travel/bottles-medication/2-oz.-flip-spout-bottle/12d?productId=11009936

That Aquabug turned out really nice, awesome job JustO&R!

Looks great! By the way, that stamped metal Ohlsson & Rice sign is pretty awesome!

Wow, very nice! Do you think that is an original product or a custom use of an engine? It looks kind of like an O&R bicycle engine applied to a pumper cycle.