Well carburator is done. not much more drama after i found the bad die. only issue was the solder from the needle did stick the the main needle part to the jet tube. re heated that used my welding gloves and got it back apart. then cleaned all that up and sooted everything with accetaline soot and tried again. success and all done.
moved on to the head where i blued it to see if the push rods would rub, they just barely did, filed and sanded the cooling fin just a tad and thats all good.
next is a gas tank. mocked up several pieces of round stock and it seems 1 inch to 1.25 is going to be a good size for it. unfortunately i dont have anything in that size in copper or brass so ill be going to the hardware store tomorrow. (i have solid stock brass but im not going to waste that)
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the next pic shows it on the intake tube which is over length right now. i still have to shorten it
and this pic show where the push rod was rubbing. it was just faint but i scribed a line across the top as a file to line then gave a little relief to that area, filed, sannded and it looked better than it did before.