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Well- I make toys for a living. We often use steel pins on our prototypes for hinge pins, etc. Even with carbide steel pins, and springs light enough for a toy, I've seen pins get bent when a toy...

Not a restorer (yet- at least until my WB blade arrives), but my humble guess beyond what these esteemed gents suggested is that they may have purposely made the holes and pins a bit larger on...