> Thanks for your response. I have suggested that "the appropriate person"
> should look into using a different kind of pin, but this would mean "the
> appropriate person" having to do something! Have you any suggestions of
> 'harder materials'?

Harder than the head of "the appropriate person"?  Probably doesn't
exist.  And by the way, their close kinfolk work here!

Jo

JoAnn L. Amerson
Design Librarian
Red Lion Controls, Inc.
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