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While the airbox may get warm it should not experience any kind of high heat whatsoever, but duly noted. The repair is very thin, so I think drilling and epoxying panel pins for support then using double wall dam to contain the epoxy wall around the pins may be my safest and strongest option, but any opinions are more than welcome.

I have many 4 cycle engines that smoke when using straight 30w, but no smoke when using 10w30. I also have engines that run poorly on 89 octane ethanol, but not on 87 octane non ethanol. I think an engine likes what it likes. Great job on getting this kit back in shape.

Maybe want is a better word, but if anyone wins the lottery and has a spare 10-12k I would appreciate a long term loan as a tax deduction for you. https://www.purplewave.com/auction/171227A/item/DP9600?utm_campaign=20171226&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Boomtrain&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiMWQyNmUyYjUtZGU3NC00M2ZjLWJhOGEtZDBiYmNjMjViNjJmIn0%3D

That is sort of what I was thinking, however I just thought about drilling holes to let the epoxy go into the magnesium. The panel pin (small brad nails?) idea is superb and that is exactly what I will do. Thank you so much for the suggestion. I can drill and putty, but I'm not willing to risk the possibility of starting a fire that can't be extinguished.

Supposedly a person that is skilled in tig welding can weld magnesium, also using a torch to heat the magnesium just hot enough to melt aluminum, but not hot enough to ignite the magnesium provides superior repairs, However, I would have to know and be able to gauge what that temperature is to accomplish the aluminum repair and I am not sure I want to attempt it at all and possibly lose the saw (and shop). The saw is a Homelite 2000 made in 1968 and it has 115cc. It is a saw that while not rare is very hard to find in this condition internally. I have made the decision to buy the used tank and cover. but I am still mulling over the air box repair. Can anyone give me an opinion as to how strong the JB Weld/epoxy repair would be on the half moon area? Thanks, Alain

Very nice find in the accessories, congratulations on getting most of the kit

I am in a quandary about two repairs on a chainsaw made from cast magnesium. The first repair is a small chip in the side of the airbox and I have been advised that by heating the area sufficiently to melt a aluminum flux core rod I could build up the area and sand it some, I would need some tin dams to keep the aluminum in place while cooling, another option was to use a two part epoxy repair. I have concerns that the epoxy repair would not hold on this particular area so I am leaning towards the aluminum weld. I have nice torch, I just am not sure in my ability to accomplish this type of repair. Te second repair is the petrol cover and it has been struck with enough force to have possibly created a crack in the interior of the tank cover. Whether it has or not I also have been advised tat by sanding it bare and using an epoxy patch would repair the defect, but again, I am not satisfied in this type of repair. I cannot get another gasket for the tank cover so if it was removed I would have to use a RTV type sealer, but I was thinking that the repair should involve removing the tank and using a vise to remove the dent and possibly using a solder or aluminum wel on the crack. I can buy the complete tank and cover in good used order for 35 US, so I am actually leaning towards this direction.

Happy belated Birthday wishes George (you and George the tractor). Your pictures are always superb and I know we all look forward to them. Hoe you are staying warm and enjoying the day

I love research and like to understand all facets of society, so while everyone was passed out from eating too much and boring football (oblong ball) games, I spent some time on the computer. I was wondering how globalism was faring today and how it rose after WWII and started googling information. This is what I found, and by the way, some of these statistics came from leads reported in vintage Popular Mechanics magazine that led to government websites. After World War II in 1945 with international business returning to post war conditions, U.S. companies had $8.4 billion invested around the world. By 1958, this had grown to $27.4 billion and by 1967 U.S. private investment abroad has increased eightfold in 20 years since the end of World War II. This was largely accomplished because postwar Europe was very favorable to the Common Market theory and encouraged trade between nations, however European businesses were not fully prepared to function in that much larger market due to the decimation of factories and infrastructure by war damage. American businesses, by contrast, were well used to operating in continent-spanning contexts from the very same war conditions. In 1967 American firms invested $10.2 billion, or about 14% of all their capital spending on plant and equipment, in ventures outside the U.S. This rising annual amount brought total overseas investment to $64.8 billion, more than the gross national product of many a nation, and eight times the amount foreign businessmen have invested in the U.S. in the 191 years of the Republic. Americans controlled 80% of Europe’s computer business, 90% of the microcircuit industry, 40% of its auto making, and sizable shares of chemicals, farm machinery and oil by 1967. In Britain, U.S. companies owned half of all modern industry, employed one of every 17 British workers, and manufactured 10% of all British goods for home consumption or export. U.S. firms also squeezed out twice as much profit from invested capital as their British competitors. Of this amount American companies sent $225 million a year home mostly tax free and reinvested the rest for the long term abroad all tax free. In 2016 the U.S. direct investment position, or the cumulative amount was around $6.4 trillion and has been well over a trillion dollars a year for nearly 20 years, but that growth has seen a much, much smaller growth in the past 4 years and many economists believe that the global market is close to saturation. Between 2008 and 2014 alone US capital investments rose from 3 trillion yearly to over 6 trillion yearly or 100%, but from 2014 through 2016 that increased slowed to less 250 billion or less than a 2% increase. What is more disturbing is that the small or no growth could turn to a negative growth very quickly due not only by a saturated market, but also due to the attitude towards consumption and consumerism by new generations. For over 100 years the US growth has been dependent on domestic or foreign economic growth, or both, but indicators from multiple areas concerning the economic conditions in which Western society/American society has depended on (economic success) could change literally overnight. Today it feels good to be old.

Hopefully you weren't guilty of unwrapping any "presents"

I thought this posting was a nice piece of history http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/equipment-field-gear/british-ww2-folding-saw-17824/

Happy Birthday James, take the day of, oops its Sunday, well take tomorrow off, you may need to. lol

Never seen one of these, very, very nice. Looks very capable of doing most anything. BTW, what engines are these and what is the box on top, not overhead valves are they?

https://tulsa.craigslist.org/mcy/d/2013-triumph-scrambler/6398496984.html

Very cool https://www.purplewave.com/auction/171227A/item/DA8582

He's probably okay in the warmer temps and wet snow, but without chains and more ballast heavy snow and colder temperatures may prove more challenging. The Gutbrod has a higher center of gravity and narrow track than a Bolens large frame, ao outfitting them for the conditions becomes the trick. That said, they are more than capable of handling about anything they encounter.

I don't think they will be able to keep pace with our massive new generation of morons in the US, but this guy was making a valiant attempt. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/12/08/firefighters-slam-youtube-prankster-who-cemented-microwave-oven-to-his-head.html

Looks like a handle to lift two jugs, the kind that hold liquid

Yep, its the original multi-tool, they got smaller in the present

I've made a few of these, but here in the states I can usually find NOS stock. The tough ones to find are the Bolens tube frame hold downs with the big brackets on each side.

Most people take the battery hold downs off the first time they change the battery (often buying one the wrong size to save money), and discard the parts. This also happens with shields, cover plates and even air cleaners/filters at times. Its the disease of laziness when a person thinks no one will see them not completing the job correctly.

Very nice hedge trimmer, be mindful of things in front of this while running, lol

rope ladder, lol

I see a little drooling on your post.