silversaddle1
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So yesterday I told the wife I was just going to take a "me" day out in the shop and just do something that I like to do. Well as many of you here know, I like to harvest gold pins from backplane type boards. So I went out and went to work and had at it. I cranked some Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd up on the audio system and went to work. In the time that a guy could have watched a couple pro football games I was able to collect these pins! 18.5 pounds of them!!! They are kind of bulky so they tend to take up a lot of room. So I had to tamp them down as I was filling the jars (I know, glass jars!). When my wife walked by the shop to feed the horses, she said she could hear me in there "tap, tap, tapping" away on the pins, thus the term "pin tapping". Pin tapping is the art of using nothing more than a small hammer, a heat gun (sometimes) and a pair of cutters to remove the pins from a board. It's simple to do once you master the hammer work, learn the "feel and sound" of the pins, and how to do different types of pins. I've been doing this for about 20 years now and my wife says I should make some videos and share the ideas. Maybe. But until then, enjoy the pics!