"maxodyne" wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:57:11 -0500, wrote:


Describe the pin. Is it a roll pin or a split pin?


What's a split pin?
I looked up "roll pin" on google, went to images.
It's a roll pin !!!!

Repeat: What's a split pin?

AKA cotter pin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_pin
Besides cotter pins, of which there are at least two entirely different
kinds, I am aware of two distinctly different types of "roll pins". The most
common type is made of relatively heavy spring steel formed in a partial
circle with a lengthwise slot. The other one is made of several turns of
relatively thin spring steel without any slot, kinda like a short wide clock
spring wound up real tight. The first squeezes the slot narrower when
compressed and the second rolls the layers around themselves.

Don Young