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Subject:Re: repairing arm rest
From:Malcolm Stebbins
Date:Tue, 1 Jun 2010 13:59:06 -0700

Sorry.  I MAY not have the right name for this "pin", but in my vocabulary, a Westy arm-rest drift pin is a metal tube about the length of a hairpin (maybe shorter) and about the diameter of an elbow spaghetti..... BUT, it is completely cut from end to end so that it will compress when forced/banged into a tunnel type hole,  like the one on the westy arm rest.

One can use a blunt (cut off) nail the size of the tunnel to bang the pin out of the tunnel, or one can buy a real tool to do it.

Again, I may have the names mixed up here.  Malcolm

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From: "mcneely4@cox.net" <mcneely4@cox.net>

Malcolm, I still don't know what a "drift in" is.  Is that the pin that I punched out, referred to in the post referenced below as a "steel plug?  Seems such an odd term that I feel a need to know.  Thanks, DMc