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Background:
I may be a fool (i'm not to proud to admit it),
but sometimes my foolery ends up, being a stroke of genius in the long-run...
EG Can on the muffler, Vernier Caliper Choke,
Water-Proof Kill Switch (thanks large), Toilet Washer on Petrol Cap (thanks fetor),
Hi Temp Engine Paint on motor actually cools it they say...
My bike has been an experiment from the start
so I've always played with it as such.
I've sheared my woodruff key again.
I found a supplier of Woodruff keys, bought a couple,
took it home and it didn't fit.
...in frustration of having my bike not running
for the 25th time, used super glue on the sprocket,
then glue on the nut.
This actually worked.
For a Day.
I realise wood-ruff keys have been posted to death:
EG:
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=7231&highlight=woodruff
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=5265&highlight=engine+sprocket&page=2
but maybe no-one ever used super glue to break their bike in such a way.
So I now have to un-glue the super-glue from the Nut,
as the shaft has come unglued from the cog.
I've searched the web and found a couple of solutions
to un-glueing super-glue.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf722654.tip.html
"Cooking oil and lots of patience will remove or unstick superglue."
http://au.four.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?auction=1175440795-27373-0&mo=auction
UNSTICK DEBONDER for SUPERGLUE CYANOACRYLATE
I saw in another post that glueing has been sugguested.
So once I get the super-glue undone, my supplier may have the wood-ruff.
I am however interested in welding this thing shut with liquid steel epoxy.
As its a simple way anyone could fix the wood-ruff option if you don't own a welder,
or can't get a replacement key.
I may be a fool (i'm not to proud to admit it),
but sometimes my foolery ends up, being a stroke of genius in the long-run...
EG Can on the muffler, Vernier Caliper Choke,
Water-Proof Kill Switch (thanks large), Toilet Washer on Petrol Cap (thanks fetor),
Hi Temp Engine Paint on motor actually cools it they say...
My bike has been an experiment from the start
so I've always played with it as such.
I've sheared my woodruff key again.
I found a supplier of Woodruff keys, bought a couple,
took it home and it didn't fit.
...in frustration of having my bike not running
for the 25th time, used super glue on the sprocket,
then glue on the nut.
This actually worked.
For a Day.
I realise wood-ruff keys have been posted to death:
EG:
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=7231&highlight=woodruff
http://www.motoredbikes.com/showthread.php?t=5265&highlight=engine+sprocket&page=2
but maybe no-one ever used super glue to break their bike in such a way.
So I now have to un-glue the super-glue from the Nut,
as the shaft has come unglued from the cog.
I've searched the web and found a couple of solutions
to un-glueing super-glue.
http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf722654.tip.html
"Cooking oil and lots of patience will remove or unstick superglue."
http://au.four.ebid.net/perl/auction.cgi?auction=1175440795-27373-0&mo=auction
UNSTICK DEBONDER for SUPERGLUE CYANOACRYLATE
I saw in another post that glueing has been sugguested.
If the threads can not be saved you might get by with bonding the drive sprocket on with liquid steel epoxy.
So once I get the super-glue undone, my supplier may have the wood-ruff.
I am however interested in welding this thing shut with liquid steel epoxy.
As its a simple way anyone could fix the wood-ruff option if you don't own a welder,
or can't get a replacement key.
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