<html> I believe that a lot of these stringing jigs are made at the chapter level. I know that ours was. It should be possible for them to be made with an angled hitch pin. Terry B. At 04:57 PM 5/3/2007 -0600, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>There's one big difference about the stringing jig: that darned vertical hitch pin.   I did a great splice, went back and neatened up the coil... and then lost a point, because the string wasn't seated around that vertical pin.  Touching the wire at all after seating can make it walk up again... something you don't have in The Real World with an angled hitch pin.  (This was one of the very few Non-Real-World items in the tech test, by the way).   --Cy--  </blockquote> </html>