replacement pins for decoder tools

[quickpicker]

is carben spring steel from a model shop adequate for use in these tools?

any help apreciated

[toomush2drink]

yes

[79commando]

Warning. Always use pins that are softer than the tool you are operating. Too hard a pin will wear a groove in your tool and render it unserviceable. Soft pins can be replaced cheeper than the tool body .

[quickpicker]

thanks for that.
i was why these were harder than the original pins.
they bent like a knife going through butter on the sitex.

regards