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Reply to "Chesil Speedster - my planned winter overhaul of '98 build"

@Sacto Mitch posted:

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"...there's not a lot to making a woodruff key, just a solid piece of metal in a particular shape..."

Still, some of us would have just jammed in a screw driver and broken off the handle.



...There are those who would have used a similar VW part but, figuring that was about 40 per cent stronger than required and thus 40 per cent too heavy, would have then spent several weeks making suitable modifications to reduce the weight by 39.7 per cent.



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That's cutting it a little close.  A really smart man would only rework it to 25 or maybe 30% lighter; then there's a little room for miscalculation/error

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