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Date:         Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:20:49 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: repairing arm rest
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <482081.79815.qm@web111713.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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I think this is called a spring pin, rolled pin or split pin. Spring pin is the most common name.

Jim

On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM> 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


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