setting pin's

[rickmenefee]

Guys have ask me several times how to do this. I had pin's show until doing it this way. Use a tapered pin reamer 4/0 from McMaster for 3/32.
Clean the pen stock and the hole w/ Acetone
Use a pin press
Use the flat side of the hammer polished / to do the final work.
Used this method maybe 15 years and don't recall one ever showing

when you hitting a pin it swells from the bottom up.

 

[Hengelo_77]

will it work wit just a hammer if you don't have a press?

 

[rickmenefee]

Yes it just not as full proof. I use a 15 degree bur for hammer pinning. Try to go down no more than .030 in the bolster with this x-mas tree bur. One of the hardest things about making slip-joints is getting pivot pin not to show.