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Hazelwood7 wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 7:42 am

DaveInNZ,

I have a few different slotted Sonor keys and I can’t place the one with the S. Any other clues.

This one - Speed key I think they called it? The top bit spins so you can kinda crank it around pretty quickly. I guess it's a bit like a crank handle in miniature.

Hazelwood7 wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 7:42 am

DaveInNZ,

I have a few different slotted Sonor keys and I can’t place the one with the S. Any other clues. I emailed Aaron about making more bits but I think he won’t make more until he has enough demand.

Tom,

I will have to buy an extra designer slotted rod and send it you since I don’t have one to spare. I already have an extra Sonor slotted key to send to you.
Chris

Tom,

Sounds good. I have my Solidworks machine set up and running again, so I can get everything measured up and modeled when it arrives. Let me know when you're ready to send and I will give you a shipping address. Any thoughts on the choice for the driver yet..or do we need to make one of thsoe as well? That wouldn't be out of the question, but we'd likely want/need to harden it after machining as well. I could likely make a drill key too, it would just take a little more work of course. And I'll send back anything you send me, once the stuff is finished--I will never own slotted tension rods again I'm sure.

DaveInNZ wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 4:43 pm

Hazelwood7 wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 7:42 am

DaveInNZ,

I have a few different slotted Sonor keys and I can’t place the one with the S. Any other clues.

This one - Speed key I think they called it? The top bit spins so you can kinda crank it around pretty quickly. I guess it's a bit like a crank handle in miniature.

Speed Key.jpg

That one looks COOL! Those speed keys aren't bad actually--I've had them for regular (square) tension rods, and they work just fine.

DaveInNZ wrote: Mon Dec 15, 2025 4:43 pm

This one - Speed key I think they called it? The top bit spins so you can kinda crank it around pretty quickly. I guess it's a bit like a crank handle in miniature.

Speed Key.jpg

I have one of these - love it! Wish I could find another one...

I can’t find any extra designer lugs now for now, but will continue the search and buy a few, and send them to Tom.

Hazelwood7 wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:20 pm

I can’t find any extra designer lugs now for now, but will continue the search and buy a few, and send them to Tom.

No sweat. The little mill I just bought has a table that's 0.005" out on one end, so they're sending me a new one. That will take a week to arrive, and then a day to remove/replace the old one. I'm off until January 5th now though, so I will have some time. After that I just do things in the evenings and on weekends...so it's not even a problem to do it after vacation. I work from home too, so I'm in the shop 10 seconds after finishing my work day.

Thanks Tom, I will keep working on it.

I wanted to give an update that I used SonorBart’s suggestion and got a slotted screw bit and got a sleeve. It’s not perfect but an excellent option for me. The other issue is that I can’t get drum parts from Germany anymore. Due to the tariff situation, a lot of seller ls are not shipping from Germany anymore. I need to ask ST drums if they will or not. It would be the last place that I think would ship parts to the US but I am not sure anymore.