I think this is called a spring pin, rolled pin or split pin. Spring
pin is the most common name.

Jim

On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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