No need. i believe you.
Strange the clearances are tighter, but oh well...
Will a magnet pull the pin out far enough to get holt uv if yer fingernails is cut extra short, or is a sharp knife tip (or an exaco knife) needed to bring it out some?Well, I already did it so I might as well post a pic...
This was the tiniest size that I could find. Unfortunately the image doesn't do a good job of conveying how small the ball end is. It's really small. I actually had to try it with a couple of the same size because the little plastic ball kept breaking off when I tried to close the philips. Anyway, yeah. It won't close, sadly.
The tweezers can pick the pin out quite handily.
FINALLY!!! An actual use for the slick no grip SAK tweezers!!!Good question. If it's a regular pin then a magnet should work. I'll try it...
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Huh. I expected that to work, but it didn't. The pin is attracted to the magnet, of course, but it's too small and probably doesn't have enough iron for the pull to be strong enough to overcome the friction of being in the scale. Plus the magnet wants to go straight for the backspring. The pull from the backspring is too strong. I had to fish the magnet back off of the spring with the plastic SAK toothpick. If you had a bigger, stronger magnet, maybe, but that's probably out of the question with the size of magnet that you would have tucked away somewhere in your SAK. Even then, after having tried it with a quarter inch diameter neodymium magnet, I have my doubts about how successful a larger one would be.
But you know what does work really well? The SAK tweezers.
The real answer is that there’s a bump moulded into the slot and it bends the pin just slightly to provide the friction needed to retain it. No ‘pre-bending’ of the pin is needed.
