04-08-2018, 12:53 PM
It is also easy to make roll pin punches if you have access to a drill press and a vice for it. All you need is a piece of round metal appropriate size about 4 inches long. Drill a hole just a little bit larger than the roll pin diameter and only about half as deep as the roll pin is long. Put a little dap of grease on the roll pin and stick it into the hole in the punch and it will hold it fine. I also made a front take down pin installing tool out of a piece of round brass stock of appropriate size to fit into the lower. Just drilled a hole through one end just a hair larger in diameter than the spring and detent. It works like a charm. That little table top $50 Harbor Freight drill press I got a number of years ago has paid for it's self many times over.