1919 Henderson

[T. Cotten]

-My 'in-house' effort turned out HX Schebler friction washers, Eric,.

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But never on the first try.

....Cotten

[exeric]

I like the radius tool you made, Tom. The thumb screw adjustment is very useful for setting the cutting tool.

[exeric]

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Enjoyed helping a friend with his 1919Z yesterday. You don't get to see many early Hens side by side. My phone camera usually takes a good picture but I'm not happy with this one. Seems very pixilated.

[exeric]

It has been a while since I have done any up-dates on 1919 Henderson progress. I have been busy on it, but much of that has been minutia, and nonsense that would be of no interest to anyone but me. A big nagging issue has been the starter assembly which was inadequate from it's inception and has haunted many Hendersons. I have a genuine assembly collected over years swap meet hunting, but it never worked reliably, and always needed to be carefully nit-picked or re-made. I chose to re-make all of the close tolerance parts and attempt to get a Harley-Davidson reliable starter. In the picture, I made everything but the springs, and the actual starter arm which is genuine. The starter jaws were a challenge but more of a drudge because it was mostly angular adjustments to a dividing head. A dividing head (as pictured) is one of the most useful tools in a machine shop. Remarkable what you can make with a dividing head. I'll up-date this when I get the starter assembly sorted out and installed.

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