Ken Freeman wrote:
> Can cotter pins be re-installed? If you do, do they need to be filed,
> generally?
Depends on how they came out and how desperate you are. If the flats are smooth (or can be smoothed with only a litle filing) and you haven't buggered up the threads they will be fine. And they might have been of harder steel than what you can easily buy nowadays
-- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands