Subject: Re: Champion Blower Repair

From: chris Hubbard <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:17:16 -0500

I recently picked up a 400 series Champion blower that is in generally good
condition except that one of the gears is missing some teeth.  It is the
small gear that runs off the crank gear next to the large bronze gear.  I
took it to two machinists and the teeth are nothing not like any modern gear
so they can neither repair it or suggest a replacement.  Does anyone know
where you can get gears like this repaired or find replacement parts.
Better yet does anyone out there have this gear off an old blower and wish
to sell it?  Worst case,  can anyone suggest how I can repair the gear tooth
say by trying to build it up with a welder and form the tooth by hand?  
     Those are my ideas but I am sure someone out there has a better one and
more experience with this.  Chris Hubbard, Dekalb, IL

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From: Jim McCarty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 09:16:39 -0500

> more experience with this.  Chris Hubbard, Dekalb, IL

Chris, I have two Champion blowers that have been outside awhile. ONe 
is working just fine but is missing the cover over the gears. The 
other one probably is a good candidate for cannibalising. I would take 
$25 for it. If you're intersted I could get someone from Illinois to 
bring it back for you from the July 13 BAM meeting. My dad has fixed 
gears for me by brazing a chunk of metal into the piece and hten 
filing it to the proper shape. If you are just missing one tooth that 
would probably work. Another possibility is to get someone to cast you 
a new one from bronze.
-- 
Jim McCarty
Father Helias Forge
Taos, MO
Editor Rural Missouri Magazine
Newsletter editor, Blacksmiths Association of Missouri

³Foolish consistencies are the hobgoblins of little minds³