Date:         Tue, 1 Jun 2010 14:13:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: repairing arm rest
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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"drift" is a neat word...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/netdict/drift

 >>1 a : the act of driving something along<<

On the arm rest you can drift the roll pin in/out or you can tap the
drift pin in/out.
I might use a drift to pound a ball joint out or to pound one in (old
king pins & a 5 lb hammer on a bench vice work really well for this).

Of course you can always just beat the sucker to where you need it.

Rob
becida@comcast.net


At 6/1/2010 01:59 PM, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
>Sorry.  I MAY not have the right name for this "pin", but in my
>vocabulary, a Westy arm-rest drift pin is a metal tube about the
>length of a hairpin (maybe shorter) and about the diameter of an
>elbow spaghetti..... BUT, it is completely cut from end to end so
>that it will compress when forced/banged into a tunnel type
>hole,  like the one on the westy arm rest.
>
>One can use a blunt (cut off) nail the size of the tunnel to bang
>the pin out of the tunnel, or one can buy a real tool to do it.
>
>Again, I may have the names mixed up here.  Malcolm
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: "mcneely4@cox.net" <mcneely4@cox.net>
>
>Malcolm, I still don't know what a "drift in" is.  Is that the pin
>that I punched out, referred to in the post referenced below as a
>"steel plug?  Seems such an odd term that I feel a need to know.  Thanks, DMc