Malcolm, thanks.  I read literally, a consequence of something from my youth I suppose.  So, when you typed "drift in" (no "p"), I simply felt confused.  Someone else suggested a typo, and suddenly I knew you meant "drift pin," but until someone else explained the meaning of "to drift" in mechanic's working terminology, I still didn't understand for sure.  Thanks again, David

---- 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.
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> 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
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David McNeely