Movable Pinned Joints

Joining metal by combining can be use pins like join work piece, i.e. by inserting, placing upon, encasing/telescoping, hanging.

Types of Pins:
It is always more economic to use standard pins than to produce them specially.
Pins are manufactured with or without cotter holes. It is important to consider the length of grip when ordering or selecting pins. This can be calculated by adding the thickness of all the work pieces and the washer, as well as some play.

Pin Materials
Pins are subject to bending and shearing stress.
Headless pins: drawn round steel 9 S 20K, St 50 K, C 35 K
Pins with heads: St 50, St 60, St 35.
Pins with threaded pegs: screw material 5.6

Inserting Pins
Pinned joints are nearly always movable. Clearance play must therefore be provided for. Pin shanks have h 11 tolerances. The following rule applies to most moving joints. The pins should be fixed in the fork and the broadest joint plate should turn on the plan. For this purpose, the fork holes through which the pin is inserted are machined to a tight clearance fit, e.g. H8 to H11, and the holes of the joint plate so as to allow greater play, e.g. A11, B11, C11, D11, D9. if the pin carries rotating machine parts (cable pulleys, rollers, etc.), the fit between pin and wheel should be analogous to a slide bearing and the hole should have a tolerance of E9 or D10. Fine with axial lubricating holes and grease nipples are used in such cases, so as to be able to lubricate the bearing point.

Other Metal:

• Grinding Spark Test
• Tin Symbol
• Material Testing