Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:11:29 -0700
Reply-To: Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Al Knoll <anasasi@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: repairing arm rest
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If you drive out the pin with a longish 1/4 inch diameter bolt just free of
the inner bit, keeping it in the outer sleeve from below then you can tap in
the split pin, tapered end first of course if it should slip free by
aligning the hole using that bolt and then driving out the bolt as the pin
enters. Keeps it all aligned.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:
> 'cordin to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_pin
>
> a drift pin is a punch used for aligning holes as in metal working. A
> couple of dictionaries confirmed this usage. I did not find drift pin as a
> separate listing, but only as an example of the usage of drift as an
> adjective (modifying pin, where the general usage of pin is synonymous with
> punch). Fact is, I had a bit of a time aligning the holes in the arm rest
> and the rest of the hinge on the chair, and used a smaller punch than the
> one I used as a drift when drifting the spring pin out and back in.
>
> Did I use the terms correctly here? Thanks. DMc
>
> ---- Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > 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
>
> --
> David McNeely
>
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