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I did something stupid but perhaps I can spare someone else from my fate. I connected my mower PTO shaft but apparently it didn't lock into place properly. I got the mower spinning but the shaft slipped out of place dropping onto the mowing deck and flopping around while the blade slowed down. Okay, no biggie, just reconnect and move on. In the process it dented the PTO shaft and it would no longer smoothly slide in and out. A new PTO shaft would be in excess of $300 so I decided to purchase both halves of the shaft and replace the damaged shaft. I was able to score both sections locally for just over a hundred dollars but I got the last ones in town. The vendor doesn't know when he can get more. I think I'll rig some kind of strap to prevent the shaft from free falling in the future.