Medeco Pin Setting Pick Set

[raimundo]

I believe that the medeco angles are about twenty degrees off the straight across for left or right

when squelch speaks of 45 degrees he is refering to simply tilting the pick so it engages the chisel tip of the pin toward either edge and thus causeing it to rotate around its center axis this method depends on the fingerpins to reach a slot or falseslot to hangup on it. there is no accurate way to control the rotation but the pin has a stop on it to prevent it from rolling completely around. its restricted to about a quarter rotation.

[raimundo]

Ive been thinking about your tool,

besides the lateral angles that you are making to rotate the pins, there is also the angle of the peak, ____/\ and my idea is that this should be a steep angle, to keep the picktip inside the spacing for one pin and not impinge on the next one to it

I thinek that the angle could be as sharp as the angle of the chisel tip on the pin, so that when your lateral angles are interacting with the pin
the pick tip angle compliments this. so the contact between the pin and the pick has a wider footprint, rather than a single point of contact which regardless of the angle cut on the pick, a single point of contact will tend to twist the pin if its not directly under the center line of the pin.

[clearmoon247]

Raimundo,
why do you have to be so awesome, seriously. I haven't thought of it that way, but when i get home this evening, i will be grabbing a pin and seeing what angle the chisel tip needs to be and what width would work best, because right now the stock i am using for the picks is 1mm exactly in thickness, but that may actually be too thin. Now i am on the hunt for easily accessible stock of that thickness, because most feeler guages only go to .025 inches and what i need is .0394 inches. Additionally, I plan on making a single half diamond version to see if it is more effective than a double half diamond