Thread: Triple stacked pins

Hi my name is Dylan, and I like the Vintage ones better I think says it all....

Hi my name is Glen and I like the new stacked ones better...


PS: Stu I have about 200 of the old ones in a baggie on the bench I'll send ya some of those too

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Hi my name is Dylan, and I like the Vintage ones better I think says it all....

Except that was not what I was saying in my first post. I was saying "I would recommend you try before you pin to see what YOU like."

so...what sizes work best if someone wanted to try more than one washer?

Originally Posted by tumtatty

so...what sizes work best if someone wanted to try more than one washer?

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order
#0W Brass
#0 SS
#0 Brass

You have to stack these correctly also to get the Beehive effect, dump a few of the washers on your workbench, note that one side is flat, and one side is rounded,,, Flat side goes toward the scale rounded side goes up...

My own experience is that three stacked washers are significantly taller than a vintage 'bullseye' washer...

It's all personal preference, but there is definitely a marked difference between the two.

Hi, my name is neil and I'm an al... sorry, wrong meeting - and I like both types!

Those old washers also had another, less obvious point - the pin was sometimes around 1/8th of an inch or so thick - a bit of a pain when you remove the washer and find a gaping great hole in the scale! I have been refurbing quite a few of these recently, and have had to stock up on wider pinning rods. They take a fair bit of walloping to mushroom the ends, so annealing is almost a necessity. Even if the thin bullseye washers have mushed down a bit, the pin certainly hasn't when it is greater than 1/16th. When you take into account that some of those old pins were steel, then the relative size-loss is even less.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by gssixgun

Micro Fasteners - Hobbyists Source - Locknuts - Washers - Machine Screws - Fasteners - Rivets - Wood Screws

order
#0W Brass
#0 SS
#0 Brass

You have to stack these correctly also to get the Beehive effect, dump a few of the washers on your workbench, note that one side is flat, and one side is rounded,,, Flat side goes toward the scale rounded side goes up...

i know this may be a silly question, but the #0 Brass and #0 SS will be exactly the same except the color/metal, correct? for some reason I thought the width was different on all three...

Originally Posted by ryanjewell

i know this may be a silly question, but the #0 Brass and #0 SS will be exactly the same except the color/metal, correct? for some reason I thought the width was different on all three...

Width is different on all 3. The SS #0 is slightly wider than the brass #0.
Not meaning to confuse things but there is also a narrow #0 SS which is less wide than the brass #0.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Width is different on all 3. The SS #0 is slightly wider than the brass #0.
Not meaning to confuse things but there is also a narrow #0 SS which is less wide than the brass #0.

And the washers from Fastener Express, which is another great place to get washers, are all different OD's as well. They run much smaller - more like vintage washers.