<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>[CAUT] center pinning changes</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">To avoid pushing the points through the far bushing I press part way, relax and press a second time,</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>I always use a chase pin.  That is a pin which is of a smaller diameter</div> <div>and easily fits into the birdseye, usually a #18 0r 19. This lines up the</div> <div>bushings with the center, one push.  I use the hand-held H-style pinning tool.</div> <div><br></div> <div>When doing a set, I press the pin out part way on all the flanges. This way I</div> <div>don't need to be picking up the tool so often because after I cut the pin, I pick</div> <div>up the next flange and pull the pin with the nippers. Tools are placed in order</div> <div>of use to limit hand motions: Pin press - nippers - reamer - burnisher - pins.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Nippers pull the pin, ream, dip burnisher into Teflon Powder/ burnish,</div> <div>insert chase pin - insert replacement pin, press, nip, pull pin on next,</div> <div>ream, burnish... all the while maintaining quality control of friction.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>