Is the key for yours the same as a 1984 300D?
On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:26 PM, buymbpa...@gmail.com wrote:
Want to do one for me to prove you can do it twice?
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-----Original Message-----
From: "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:34:50
To: Mercedes Discussion List<mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Keys once more
'Made a nice-looking black walnut key head coupla years ago; drilled/
routed
out cavity for key with Dremel; ground off excessive "ears" on metal
part of
the key head a bit to reduce width of cavity required; inserted key in
cavity; filled around it with epoxy. Looks great; works fine, but I
use it
only occasionally - mostly as spare. 'Did it mainly for the
exercise and to
prove to myself that I could do it and do it well.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "R A Bennell" <b...@mts.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 7:31 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Keys once more
My old 115 300D came with a key with the hard plastic head. I
ordered a
couple of new ones through the local dealer
as the original was a bit worn. The new ones came with the soft
plastic
heads and they have not lasted. Both have
broken in a short time. I managed last summer with just the metal
part but
that is not all that much fun - hard on
the fingers - especially since I have to use it to lock the doors.
In any event, I have pondered a couple of choices and now am
thinking of a
3rd one. My first idea was to make
wooden heads as I think I have seen referred to on this forum in
the past.
I was going to use my Dremel with the
router base to carve out a depression shaped like the top of the
key on a
couple of thin pieces of wood and glue
them together. Seems a bit fiddly to me but I guess it could make a
strong
key. Another possibility was to use thin
plywood as it might have more strength than wood?
My second thought was just to contact Rusty and see if he can
supply the
soft part only. If I got a dozen of the
darned things I would be ok for a few years. My only concern on
that is
that I might not notice the thing was
breaking and I might lose my key. A problem if one is not at home and
cannot start the car.
Now, my new thought is resin. I wondered about supporting the key
and
pouring some sort of resin over and around
it to form a head. Would need some carved out depression to form a
reasonably shaped head and then might have to
work on cleaning the edges up etc afterwards. However, I wondered
what
sort of resin I might use and how strong
these are. I recall many years ago one of our old neighbors was
making
stuff like one sees sold at craft sales in
church basements - pennies in a paperweight sort of things.
Anyone else got a good idea of how to fix the bu**ered key without
making
a monstrosity or doing a silly amount of
handwork? I like woodworking but miniature stuff is not my strong
point.
Randy
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