10/33 MTD Snow Thrower Chute Keeper

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This snow thrower has been around for a long time, it was built to last and is relatively easy to maintain. While it is much older than I even am, MTD actually has no catalogs parts available for its model, they don't know the model even exists. This has to do with corporate restructuring and the explosion of the web way back when tv was black and white, right? Some parts you can find, as I was able to purchase a replacement spur gear for it a few years ago third party, but other parts are much harder to come by or take a long time to get delivered. One of the things that was broken when I acquired it was the chute guides. 1 was broke completely off and the other two were cracked, so I knew I was going to have to replace them eventually. The first major snowfall on the shores of Lake Erie while I was running the machine the chute went flying and snow was just being thrown up into the air to fall back down wherever it fell. A quick search proved these parts were available as new-old stock, but they were going to take a bit to get delivered and the ability to produce parts like this quickly is a good application for a 3D printer. A minimal amount of time was spent on the design, its not overly complex and its small, to print 3 took about 1.75 hours in ABS with my print settings on an Replicator clone that has several upgrades. You can see in the photos where these attach, how many I needed, and that you will have to provide the hardware to attach them.