THX, I just reread your posts and I'd missed the part about Brooklyn having the original pin on hand, that makes things far easier. DUH-OH!!!!!!! :I

Skip all the steps referring to the modification of a machine pin if you've got the original part and substitute that. The whole megillah outlines the method for fixing a connector with a missing pin that's actually MIA. I posted the fix when I first thought of it, without really thinking about the particular situation, but it worked out OK as a more general procedure anyway.

Maybe file a tiny flat onto the original pin to align with the vertical metal strip in the pic?

I was planning on modding a couple of pins as described before I sent the strip, you've saved me some tinkering.

Thanks for that wetware reboot, Dennis, apparently I needed it! :lol:

p.s. The pin mod describes my down & dirty way of cutting bolts down to size in the field, thread a nut or two onto the bolt for deburring the threading before chucking it into the drill. At home or in the shop, a drill press makes a far superior metal/plastic/wood lathe. It's even fairly easy form a cylindrical starter section with conical thread starter into a bolt for hard to start applications.