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Cotter pins are ordinarily secured by spreading the prongs. Hammerlock pins are secured by striking the head with a hammer. In some applications, the spread prongs can be a problem because they can catch on such things as pant legs. If so they can be covered with epoxy.
Don't reuse cotter pins.
Always use the largest cotter pin that will fit the hole.
In general, when a fastener must be safetied, properly installed safety wire is preferable to a cotter pin.
Because cotter pins are so readily available, workers are often tempted to replace some special pin that has failed with a cotter pin. This error has led to deaths.
Standards:
from 1/32x1/4 -- Clinch Pins - Humped Cotter Pins - Hitch Pin (Hair Pin) Clips
to 3/4x6
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Use of cotter pins
Cotter pins for furniture brasses
For hundreds of years, special brass split pins have been used to hold pendants and some other types of pulls on the fronts of drawers. Some furniture makers still use them, as they don't loosen as threaded fasteners often do.
The pendant has a small axle in its back. The pin is slipped over the axle, enclosing it in the pin's head, and the pin is inserted into a hole drilled through the front of the drawer. On the inside of the drawer two shallower holes are drilled, one above and one below the through hole. The prongs of the pin are bent back, each end inserted into a hole, and the assembly hammered flat.
These pins are supplied with the fittings by the makers of brasses.
Crank cotter pins
Crank cotter pins are short shafts, threaded on one end, with a flat tapered so that the low end of the flat is at the threaded end of the pin. They are used to secure a piece with a bored hole to a flatted shaft having the same diameter, for example, formerly, to hold the cranks of bicycles to their axle. That particular use will be the basis of this description.
The crank has two holes, one for the axle and another at right angles to it for the cotter pin, with a slight, specified overlap. The axle is inserted into the hole so that the axle's flat is parallel to and facing the overlap. The cotter pin is inserted so that its flat faces the axles flat. Installing the pin wedges the shaft against the sides of the hole and prevents it from turning.
Special tools were once available to insert and remove these cotter pins. In the absence of such a tool, the cotter pin is installed by tapping it with a hammer. The nut is tightened simply to hold the pin in place.
Removing the pins can be much more difficult than installing them. Their function requires that they be made of a fairly soft, ductile steel. Jiobss Brandt suggests the following technique: Check to see if the cranks are really 180 degrees apart. If they aren't, the cotter pins are "mushed." With the cranks horizontal, left crank to the rear, stand on both pedals and lunge to force them back into the same plane. They should move a bit. Support the back face of the crank on an anvil, and drive the cotter out with a drift pin. If the threaded part protrudes more than a quarter inch, first hacksaw it off, otherwise it will buckle when you use the drift pin.
The cotter pins for bicycles are sized by the diameter of the shaft in millimeters, currently 8.0, 8.5, 9.0, and 9.5. Similar pins for other applications have been sized in inches, by diameter and length.
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