Thread: stainless pins

I picked up a 1/16 inch stainless steel welding fluxless rod. Would this work for pins or is it to hard?

Thanks Glen

Never tried it for peening.

I would say try peening it, without the razor. Drill a 1/16" hole in a 1/8" to 1/4" piece of wood and pin through it. If it works then you can do it on a razor.

It will take more taps if it can be used. Don't try to hit harder or you will deform the pin instead of peening the end.

Glen,

I've been planning for my first major overhaul and have considered getting some nickel-silver pins. Here's one source for them. They might be easier to shape than stainless.

I daresay the stainless pins are going to be too hard. I use them on knives, but only when I'm pinning a stainless bolster, that isn't going to crack. You'd really have to beat hell out of them to form the head of the pin, by which time your handle material might have already cracked. Just my $.02

I picked up some 1/16" stainless steel rod stock from a hobby store to try pinning with. Definitely to hard. They messed up my clippers when I tried to cut them, so I had to use a dremel cutoff bit. Peening them was just as futile, barely did anything.

Originally Posted by ToxIk

I picked up some 1/16" stainless steel rod stock from a hobby store to try pinning with. Definitely to hard. They messed up my clippers when I tried to cut them, so I had to use a dremel cutoff bit. Peening them was just as futile, barely did anything.

Try annealing it ,it may work,depends on what grade stainless you have
Kind regards Peter

You can order nickel silver rod on ebay from this place "Washita Blade & Tool": It is $4.99 for 5 rods plus $4.95 shipping making the total = $9.94. Which makes it $1.99 per rod. I have used some of this and it is nice.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Nickel-Silver-Ro...QQcmdZViewItem

Originally Posted by str8razor

You can order nickel silver rod on ebay from this place "Washita Blade & Tool": It is $4.99 for 5 rods plus $4.95 shipping making the total = $9.94. Which makes it $1.99 per rod. I have used some of this and it is nice.


http://cgi.ebay.com/Nickel-Silver-Ro...QQcmdZViewItem

Sounds pretty good.

Anyone know of a source for nickel-silver, or, some similar alloy microwashers to go with it?

Toxic,
You can try the below site it has stainless steel or brass washers that are supposed to work pretty well. Bill Ellis suggests this site and to use size #0 or #00 if you want bigger ones.
Click on "washers" and then click on "brass" or "Stainless Steel".
1/16 of an inch is 0.0625 inches the ID of size #0 is 0.064 which is just a little bigger than 1/16. The OD is 1/8 of an inch which is twice the size of the 1/16 inch pins so should work OK unless you want a bigger washer/collar.

http://www.microfasteners.com/

Thanks Bill. I've actually ordered from microfasteners.com before (brass and nylon washers). Didn't realize they had stainless steel washers in an appropriate size though.

Seeing as I've never used them together: anyone know if the SS washers match well with the nickel-silver rod or would stainless be too much of a contrast?