Old Homelite project 🤔

[Angore]

Spent quite a bit of time chipping , scraping and wire-wheeling on this muffler. I'm convinced that for the last few tankfulls that this saw ran , it was running on a motor oil mix .
I gave it 3 coats of VHT 2000° ceramic black out of a rattle can I had leftover from a previous project. It should last a while .

 

[Al Smith]

Leon is the guy's name.

Thanks ,I had forgotten that I just called him "Wolfy " If I recall he was a tool and die maker .Myself just a self trained hack about machining . However I could do the same as a toolmaker it just took me about four times the amount of time to do it . It became really fun coming up with methods dating back 300 years ago like using brown sugar to case harden mild steel .

 

[Angore]

Moving along but I broke a ring dammmmmit!

 

[hacskaroly]

Moving along but I broke a ring dammmmmit!

I've done that more than once!!

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Moving along but I broke a ring dammmmmit!

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You could just use the top ring, like a Husqvarna!

 

[Angore]

Thanks guys , i had to swallow alot of pride to say that but i just ordered a new set .
I saw no markings on the old ones .
Are there top and bottom to each ring and is there a top and bottom ring ?

 

[hacskaroly]

Are there top and bottom to each ring and is there a top and bottom ring ?

No, they should be the same, if not then I have been doing it wrong...lol

Edit: Better to break while in hand than while in the cylinder! I have a McCulloch 10-10 that ate a ring and half of it is still embedded in the top of the cylinder in small bits.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Thanks guys , i had to swallow alot of pride to say that but i just ordered a new set .
I saw no markings on the old ones .
Are there top and bottom to each ring and is there a top and bottom ring ?

I've broke lots of critical parts in the middle of a build! Haha don't sweat it.
Ever forget to glue a 2" waterline together! Lol I've seen it.

 

[Junk Meister]

Thanks ,I had forgotten that I just called him "Wolfy " If I recall he was a tool and die maker .Myself just a self trained hack about machining . However I could do the same as a toolmaker it just took me about four times the amount of time to do it . It became really fun coming up with methods dating back 300 years ago like using brown sugar to case harden mild steel .

Want to share a bit of that SWEET TEMPER you're dangling in front of us.

 

[Al Smith]

Want to share a bit of that SWEET TEMPER you're dangling in front of us.

The brown sugar treatment ? It's simple, sugar chemically is C6 H12 O6 .Six parts carbon,12 part hydrogen ,6 parts oxygen .You heat up the steel to cherry red and toss it in a can of sugar which will burn off the H and O and leave the carbon to get absorbed into outer layer of the steel .After it air cools heat it back up to orange which is around 1400 degrees and dunk it in a can full of oil .It's crude but effective .However it only is case hardening ,not completely through the metal .--psst I have more tricks than a barrel full of monkys ----

 

[Al Smith]

The brown sugar treatment ? It's simple, sugar chemically is C6 H12 O6 .Six parts carbon,12 part hydrogen ,6 parts oxygen .You heat up the steel to cherry red and toss it in a can of sugar which will burn off the H and O and leave the carbon to get absorbed into outer layer of the steel .After it air cools heat it back up to orange which is around 1400 degrees and dunk it in a can full of oil .It's crude but effective .However it only is case hardening ,not completely through the metal .--psst I have more tricks than a barrel full of monkys ----

More ,my families history is most men became machinests ,metalurgists .My great great grandfather and my great grandfather ,Fred Smith made the engine bearings for the Spirit of St Louis's engine ,a Wright Whirwind 223 HP radial .The company they owned at the time was "American Non gran brass".These little known or no longer practiced old blacksmith methods were passed down to me by word of mouth .

 

[Al Smith]

I might further add for those seeking information two online sources are "Anvil Fire " and Practical Machinist .Of which I'm a member of the later .It's out there you just have to find it .

 

[Duane(Pa)]

The brown sugar treatment ? It's simple, sugar chemically is C6 H12 O6 .Six parts carbon,12 part hydrogen ,6 parts oxygen .You heat up the steel to cherry red and toss it in a can of sugar which will burn off the H and O and leave the carbon to get absorbed into outer layer of the steel .After it air cools heat it back up to orange which is around 1400 degrees and dunk it in a can full of oil .It's crude but effective .However it only is case hardening ,not completely through the metal .--psst I have more tricks than a barrel full of monkys ----

This is awesome!

 

[LAWN BOY]

I just finished restoring a XL-1 and a super mini. They are fun saws

Nice! I've been looking for the right deal on a super mini for over a year, I actually have a variant on one from Jay Hansen, but am looking for other other versions too.

I had to get the only one I’ve seen with a full wrap handle.
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That's so cool!

The blue ones are tougher to find

I've noticed that, I'm fortunate to have both a red and a blue one.