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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.
Some others would have worked out the forces applied, calculated a 50 per cent safety factor, and ordered in a slab of a suitable alloy from the Frumpster-Magee catalog.
Some members would have researched which woodruff key was specified in Germany by the original German engineers for the exact German model upon which your car is based, and would have then tracked down an old-stock part from that year of production, even though shipping times from the Alsace region are currently running from six to eight weeks.
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.
And then, there are those of us (a very small number) who would have built a steam-powered woodruff key fabrication machine, just for the sheer joy of having accomplished such a task.
I commend you on having focused on the task at hand and having found a simple, workable solution close to home so that you could ask what is probably the most important question in these projects:
What's next?
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