Thanks for your advice Adele! Will give it a try. Sincerely, Susan ---- Adele Shaak <ash...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > 29 mm is the length, equivalent 1.14 inch... to measure diameter you'd have > > to have a micrometer I guess! > > It's easier to measure diameter if you put about 10 pins side by side in a > row. (you alternate where the heads go). Then you can measure and divide by > 10. So if your row of 10 pins is 5.5 mm across, then each pin is .55 mm in > diameter. > > The finest lace pins are about .40 mm diameter. These are used when making > very fine laces, but they do bend very easily. For that reason I prefer using > .50 - .55 mm diameter pins, or even larger ones if I'm making something in > coarse thread. > > > Adele > West Vancouver, BC > (west coast of Canada)
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