tomble Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 8 hours ago, yoeddynz said: Have your looked under the sofa or behind the fridge? That's where stuff often goes to hide. I found myself literally plucking my garage trash bin one item at a time and running a magnet through the very full shop vac bag v.v It's super annoying. This $4 piece of metal that I totally remember holding at one point has gone walkies, yet I made very sure that everything Alto has a defined place in the garage. I've exhausted all the normal places, the dumb places, the super dumb places, the "out there" places, and now it's in "a mouse made away with it" or "it got knocked off the bench and lodged in someone's shoe grooves" levels of dumb places it could be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomble Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 23 hours ago, Doug Hill said: You can make a new woodruff key yourself with a little bit of key stock. If you send me the width/length I may have a bit here I can send Took the best caliper measurements I could to produce the shape in cad. The ends may or may not be boxed or the curves might continue all the way to the end, I don't recall, but it has a long flat base rather than a curve all the way along its length. I took rough measurements of where the curve finishes and becomes flat at each end. edit: based on the shape I think it's more likely to be a simple square key actually, that doesn't sit in the curved parts of the keyway... maybe doesn't have rounded ends at all? edit 2: the part number comes up with some images, seems square edit 3: yeah I'm a dummy, should have just checked the manual to confirm its shape I contacted Jesse Streeter and because of the japanese holiday week it's going to be a month :(. Tomorrow I'm going to hit up Suzuki ATV wreckers and maybe I'll get lucky. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrike Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 On 27/04/2024 at 15:36, Doug Hill said: You can make a new woodruff key yourself with a little bit of key stock. If you send me the width/length I may have a bit here I can send 21 hours ago, tomble said: <3 I'll get some measurements in the morning. I'll also call around on Monday to see if any motorcycle shops or ATV wreckers or whatever have one available. In the mean time I've pushed the button to get one from Japan (right as we enter their holiday week...) Looks pretty simple to make, ive made them for other applications with a grinder and a mill in the past 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 I'll have a look at work tomorrow, pretty confident I'll have a bit of 4mm in stock 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted April 28 Share Posted April 28 15 hours ago, tomble said: lodged in someone's shoe grooves" levels of dumb places it could be. One time I also lost one I put in a very special place, and searched the entire garage one item at a time I got a new one When I went to install it, the old one was in the way.... I had checked that too, so I'm obviously a target of gangstalking because it was impossible Anyway This is more like 4.7, so maybe too big? I got it from a local bearing/engineering supplier, they have a range of lengths in different sizes 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomble Posted April 28 Author Share Posted April 28 Doug's cut off some 4mm and is posting it over today <3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrike Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Did you end up going with a turbo upgrade in the end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomble Posted April 29 Author Share Posted April 29 15 minutes ago, shrike said: Did you end up going with a turbo upgrade in the end? It'll happen but not until more mortgage is paid off .... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Your key is now in the caple hands of NZpost, so you should see it around May 2nd 2026. 1 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 On 28/04/2024 at 16:40, tomble said: "a mouse made away with it" You could be on to something there... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cletus Posted April 29 Popular Post Share Posted April 29 On 28/04/2024 at 16:40, tomble said: I found myself literally plucking my garage trash bin one item at a time and running a magnet through the very full shop vac bag v.v It's super annoying. This $4 piece of metal that I totally remember holding at one point has gone walkies, yet I made very sure that everything Alto has a defined place in the garage. I've exhausted all the normal places, the dumb places, the super dumb places, the "out there" places, and now it's in "a mouse made away with it" or "it got knocked off the bench and lodged in someone's shoe grooves" levels of dumb places it could be. Do you have someone you have annoyed in some way? When I was a kid, my dad had done something that I didn't like. He was rebuilding his wheelbarrow so I grabbed the axle and biffed it in the bush behind the house I never told him until I was in my 30s He was equal parts = you little shit = impressed that 4 year old me knew what part was critical and annoying to lose 2 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoeddynz Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 The other day I was removing the gearbox and a big bellhousing bolt dropped to the floor. I heard it ding. I looked for it and couldn't not find it anywhere. I kept going back to the same spots to look, even though I knew I'd looked before, just in case I'd missed it. I had a spare bolt but I was getting so annoyed at not being able to find this one. It just had to be found. I called upon hannah to help look. Vacuumed under benches, shone lights everywhere. Fuck. How could it have gone far. In the end hannah found it. It had bounced off the floor and into a shelf area at the bottom of the wheelie tool box nearby. It was just sitting there, on the edge of the shelf, laughing at me the whole time. 3 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomble Posted April 30 Author Share Posted April 30 4 hours ago, yoeddynz said: I had a spare bolt but I was getting so annoyed at not being able to find this one. It just had to be found. I called upon hannah to help look. Vacuumed under benches, shone lights everywhere. Fuck. How could it have gone far. That's exactly how I feel. Girlface is trying to get me to let it go but IT MUST BE FOUND. Its absence is an affront to reality. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 Are you sure she isn't gaslighting you? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tomble Posted May 4 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 4 This arrived! Thank you @Doug Hill <3 It's a little narrower than I expected but I have to trust the process. First I used the caliper depth widget to figure out the exact points the keyway starts to taper so I could figure out what length the key should be. Grand pappy's old hacksaw was okay but not the cleanest separation so I brought out the angle grinder with cutoff disc to get it to the correct width, filing to get it to 100%. Perfect! A little slanted but that'll jam up once it starts running. It's nice to be unblocked again! 2 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePog Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 Are you sure thats real key steel? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Hill Posted May 4 Share Posted May 4 You're meant to hammer the whole key in while the pulley is installed, I should have added that to the instructions 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomble Posted May 4 Author Share Posted May 4 4 hours ago, ThePog said: Are you sure thats real key steel? The purest mitertenite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuel Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 please tell me this is a joke 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morkster Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Lol, gotta be.. we're being trolled in a weird way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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