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Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: beemer on July 10, 2009, 04:24:31 AM

Title: Retro looking key!!!
Post by: beemer on July 10, 2009, 04:24:31 AM

I had a spare key cut recently and decided to mount it into a very old bakerlite control knob i had lying around,here's the finished article!!!it seems to suit the bike just right!
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi77.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj49%2Fmazan_2006%2Fkey1.jpg&hash=cef99f7a2e0b91755cd0f40a1f9f4d6cf059d516)
(https://bmwr65.org/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi77.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fj49%2Fmazan_2006%2Fkey2.jpg&hash=7441ff97a8e43e706f935f8809f78d09ff358e9f)

Title: Re: Retro looking key!!!
Post by: weasel01 on July 10, 2009, 08:06:50 AM

That is WAY COOL! Did you pot it in epoxy?

Title: Re: Retro looking key!!!
Post by: beemer on July 10, 2009, 08:21:46 AM

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That is WAY COOL! Did you pot it in epoxy?

Yes it's in Epoxy,with a couple of bits of alloy either side of the key for added strength.