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Hi all, I need a locating dowel for my alternator cover, part number 13.04.29. Does anyone have a spare?? Many thanks.

Make one.

harrymuffin wrote:Make one.

Maybe he doesn't have a lathe?

Why do you need a lathe? Furtle a piece of tube and cut to length. Surely, everyone with a motorcycle or lives in a house must have a hacksaw, junior hacksaw, bastard or fine file?

harrymuffin wrote:... Surely, everyone with a motorcycle or lives in a house must have a hacksaw, junior hacksaw, bastard or fine file?

perhaps he would prefer to buy one?

Oh, to be rich.

harrymuffin wrote:Oh, to be rich.

Surely you'd know where to get them trade?

harrymuffin wrote:Oh, to be rich.

Or if we were rich we would buy a lathe, or get our butlers to do it?

Harry, how about making some extras to help those without oodles of cash, lathes or servants who hand make them out of rare metals?

You can even engrave them with your moniker to add value to them

I had a look in my stock, all sorts of Morini hollow dowels, but no right hand cover examples.

Measuring one that's in an outer cover awaiting assembly, it's 9.8mm diameter and approx 9.5mm long with an M6 clearance hole.

You can juts about get away without them, but they accurately align the starter clutch, so it can take quite a bit of trial and error to stop the shoes dragging.

You are talking about that fitting sleeves you need for to center the electric-start-cover?

Ah, meanwhile Paul already answered my question

best bit of dialogue I've read on the forum for a long time ! since the 'rivet counter' 'thread anyway...
Very funny , until it started getting technical.

"Then mend it dear Henry..." springs to mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%27s ... _My_Bucket

If you don't have a lathe , then you could use a vertical head milling machine with a deviding head mounted on the table. OR you could purloine from a plumber a scrap, off cut of 10mm copper pipe and fit and cut to length, would be more than ample for simple location, the screws do the clamping. Keep things simple and be self reliant.

Or he could smelt one from a mix of iron ore, coal dust, and a straw blowing in as pure oxygen as he can manage... https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... l7JqonyoKA then sand cast the dowels.

And didn't young apprentices learn to make anything with little more than hand files and saws?

Or am I over complicating things?