Given the very small size of the pins do you think that just holding them might have made them change size a bit ?
I know people say this about micrometers but the pins must be only a fer grams of steel.
You know, I don't know. It was pretty cold in the workshop so any heat from my paws
might have had a
relatively significant effect. I was wearing nitrile gloves so there would have been some insulation though.
Machinery's Handbook has the data for the various steels' properties so I could look it up and if I
absolutely trusted my measuring technique I might well do that but whilst I think my technique is
okay, I reckon errors from that technique are likely to be greater than the effects of my gloved hands.
That's just a gut feeling though and if my measurements of these pins needed to be more than just indicative, I'd get off my lazy arse, check the material properties and do a better job.
My head is spinning at the thought of doing 190 mini holes in dowels
Stu
I mean, actually using my brain, rather than making a half-arsed comment, at least
partially for comedic value, I suppose I wouldn't
actually do 190 separate drilling operations.
I'd take the square dowel and cut enough pieces at the length of the applicable wood drills (so 1mm drill would be about 40mm, 2mm would be 50mm, etc), drill those pieces and then cut each of those drilled shorter square dowels to length (15mm or thereabouts) to make the individual holders.
I'd still have to tidy and chamfer each individual holder though.
Still and all, that's
definitely a job for a rainy day.
