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Irish John
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Irish John. I'm Portuguese Oh do I wish it held up on the first day, sheered right off that key.
Potugese Proboscis, are you telling us you welded it the wrong way around? It's tempting to weld but the sprocket is not that good and the weld is if you get my drift.
It's no big deal to make a key from a length od 1/8" key steel. Every pass of a flat file really shaves it down fast so you have to take care cos before you know it you can file off too much steel. I could make one without a vice and just filing it in my hand.
I would like to know how you got your shaft out of the gearbox and how you got the other engager key out of the shaft?