A troubleshooter came by to take a look at the cabinets. Thought he was going to fix them. I was hoping too. I asked him, so what do the new clips look like? Was hoping they were the magic solution. He shows them to me, and I say, "they are the same as the old clips. Why do you think these will be any better? They don't address the real problem." Eventually, the guy agrees with me. I showed him my bracket that I made and thought they would work. The boss man talked to the fixit guy and wanted him to come back and drill more holes in my cabinet so he could use the same clips. Told the poor fixit guy, I don't want to additional drill holes in my cabinet, except as a last resort. Especially if they intend to use the same clips which don't work! To his credit the guy told me he'd drop by a place that has a lot of cabinet hardware and see if there might be something useful there. He also said, that so far, my brackets were looking like my best option.
So after all that, and sending the guy home, I made some pins today. Got 10 done, and an 11th for practice. Really only need 8, 4 for each shelf.
The pins are made of 1144. The dark part is unturned and measures 0.2495". The light part measures 0.245, give or take a thousandth. Thought I would practice pressing in the pin using the 11th pin. So I faced a piece of 6061 to 0.300" like the bracket and drilled a hole 1/32" under 1/4, and then 1/64" under a 1/4.
Then tried out my new and questionable reamer. It's a no go. Although sold as a 0.2490" reamer, it isn't. The black part of the pin is a slip fit to the hole, not interference! Remeasured the pin with my DigiMatic mic and it's still 0.2495". Hmm, lets measure the reamer. Well midway down the reamer, it measures 0.2495", umm that's bigger than the spec on the label. Let's measure the business end of the reamer. Gee, what do we have here? 0.2501" at the cutting tip. Nope, not going to work. Drat, have to return this. If they let me keep it, (because it isn't worth shipping back) I have to mark it somehow, so I won't use it again. It will just become stock for grinding into a tool. So I have to wait another week for a real reamer to show up.
