Work Sharp Ken Onion Tool Grinding Attachment Detent / Divot Lock Bar

*****UPDATE: I'm now cold bluing the bars and oiling them. This will aid significantly in rust prevention! The photos still show the un-treated bars with a few showing the new blackened bars.*****Work Sharp Ken Onion Tool Grinding Attachment Detent / Divot Lock Bar. Condition is New. Shipped with USPS First Class Mail. If you have a Ken Onion Tool Grinding Attachment; you know what a pain in the butt the ball bearing detent retention can be. Sure it holds "OK", but anytime you bear down on it go grind harder; the detent gives in and the device slides on you. One time, I even had my attachment slide and un-mount from the motor!It sure would be nice if there was a way to just lock it in place! I introduce you to the Detent Lock bar. Like every other item I sell; its something I wanted....so I designed and made it happen. It'll probably end up helping a total of 12 people in the world...but so be it. Look at the photos, it should be pretty obvious what it is. You basically unscrew the Allen head retaining screw from the Work Sharp Ken Onion Grinding Attachment tool. Then you replace the ball bearing with my Detent Lock bar. This allows you to pick your favorite position, align the lock bar into the associated detent, and screw it down which locks it into that place. Now you can use your Grinding Attachment without fear that the tool is going to slip from one position to the other! Simple as that. Problem solved. To change positions; unscrew the lock bar about a turn and a half and readjust to a different divot. Then tighten the lock bar back down about a turn and a half and you're ready to get back to work. That's it.Directions:1. Remove the Grinding Attachment from the motor.2. Unscrew the detent retaining screw. 3. This allows you to remove the spring and ball bearing contained within. The spring allows the ball bearing to retract so you can snap from retention divot to divot. 4. Remove the ball bearing; and place my "Detent Lock" bar into your spring. 5. Put the spring back in its hole with the Detent Lock bar inside and after the spring. Not before the spring. The spring will act to automatically retract the lock bar when you unscrew the Allen/hex head retention screw.6. Reinstall the Allen/hex head retention screw.7. Screw the Allen/hex head retention screw so that the lock bar is flush with the attachment (refer to photos)8. Pick the position you want the tool to be locked into.9. Screw down the Allen/hex head retention screw about 1/4 turn.10. Adjust / wiggle the Grinding Attachment so that the lock bar is seated within the detent that best matches the position you desire.11. Lock in place by screwing down the Allen/Hex head retention screw 1 full turn. More or less is up to you; I find that 1 and a 1/4 turns is all I need to lock it in place without marring the plastic of the motor's body. Use your best judgment.To adjust to a different position; just repeat steps 7 through 11 above. Legal talk:1. One of my precision engineered lock bars is what I am selling. You must have your own Work Sharp Ken Onion knife sharpening motor and the associated Grinding Tool Attachment. 2. The price is for the bar alone. You will reuse your spring and retention screw from the Grinding Attachment.3. There is no need to over tighten the lock bar. About 1 turn or 1 and a half turns is all you'll need. Any more, and you're just abusing the plastic body of your motor. The bar can handle it, but more turns is just going to scuff up your plastic housing on the tool.4. As mentioned earlier, the lock bar is steel. It's more hearty than the plastic body of your Ken Onion motor. Even though it's securely locked in place and won't move on you anymore; don't try to break your tool by applying all your body weight onto the motor. In my experience; the belt stops moving before you'd damage your tool anyways.Cost:I hand make these here in America. I make them in my free time; out of my home shop. I don't expect to get rich; but I don't expect to be treated as slave labor either. Between the cost of materials; and the cost of my precision lathe and my time. I think that the $10 I'm asking is fair. If you saw me at a flea market; or saw this hanging on a shelf at Home Depot or Lowes; the price would be about right. Perhaps someday, with the help of all my customers; I'll be able to afford a cheap CNC machine; then I can offer prices that compete with China. Until that day....