Repinning mat

[milkman22]

I found that bubble wrap works pretty well preventing pins from rolling around

[Schuyler]

Corrugated cardboard works brilliantly. Either take a normal cardboard box & remove one size of the brown paper covering it, or just use lightbulb holders, as they don't cover one side of the corrugation already.

[straightpick]

You can also use a small piece of that ribbed rubber sheeting that is used for the bottom of tool drawers. Also used for skid resistance.

[lock2006]

One of those door mats would do it too

[Davis]

A flat cotton rag (you know, the kind that comes in a plastic package of 50 or 100) works great, too.

Davis

[raimundo]

towel, even paper towel will take the bounce and roll out of the pins, and I use the lightbulb corregated paper to align the pins so that the order of them is preserved

when using a corregated paper to align the pins, put the pins in every third groove, this is so that when you reach accross the paper for something else that you need, and your sleeve drags across the corregated paper, if one of the pins is knocked out of the row its supposed to be in, it will be found in the groove beside the one it belongs in. This is much easier to understand and fix than if pins are knocked from one row into another row that already has some pins in it.

also draw a key on the paper so that you do not get mixed up as to which end is the first space and which is the fifth space.

[Eyes_Only]

Guess I'm the only one that went ahead and bought the LAB pinning mat.

[Squelchtone]

So I was at the Smith & Wesson Shooting Center today and after putting .45 sized holes in numerous paper targets, I was poking around the retail store and something on the counter caught my eye.



Cost $7.95 The rubber nobbies have a solid feel and don't bend too much. It would be nice if the rubber was not as dense, but I tried picking up small parts with the tweezers in the pic, and everything worked well.

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[Josh K]

Guess I'm the only one that went ahead and bought the LAB pinning mat.

Those are nice, I'm looking to pick one of those up sometime.

[UnlockD]

The rubber nobbies have a solid feel and don't bend too much. It would be nice if the rubber was not as dense, but I tried picking up small parts with the tweezers in the pic, and everything worked well.

Some Sports Bars have things like that too, I did some work at a restaurant that was closing and they had mats similiar to the one you have, just skinnier, and longer. I asked to buy one or two, and the owner ended up giving me five, they work great.

[raimundo]

many older mouse pads for computer mice are made with a cloth side for the mouse that has some advertizement on it and the other side is soft black foam rubber with a textured surface, so it you only need something to stop the bounce and roll that will work, better if it had long grooves to put pin collumns in preserving the order they came out of the lock.