>Ron, > I have used welding rod to custom make the pins. Works very good. > >Tommy Black Hi Tommy, Yes, I expect it does. A bit time consuming though, and you have to finish the ends. I'm lazier than that, and don't like filing bridge pin tops. The reason I asked Joe about the diameter of his take-outs, was that I was wondering what the diameter that Schaff was supposed to get right compares to. In the shop, in some old bridges I kept as examples, I find pins of: 0.0775 Mason & Hamlin #6 = 0.076 0.079 Kimball #7 = 0.086 0.086 Kimball 0.0865 Mason & Hamlin 0.089 Chickering (I think) 0.092 Knabe #8 = 0.096 0.107 Knabe 0.108 Mason & Hamlin #9 = 0.109 0.1245 Mason & Hamlin 0.1345 Knabe #10 = 0.135 The originals are all over the place, and this is just a very small sampling. If we got to recap everything we string, it wouldn't matter a bit. But if we have to re-notch and re-pin an existing cap, it gets more complicated. Was that 3/32" rod you used? Ron N
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