Jasons tube, pin and peen the head system works well but, depending on the layout of the job, it can be difficult getting cleanly on the head of the pin to peen it without bending unless you make up some tooling to support the hinge and hold the pin in place.

An alternative is to lightly squeeze one or more of the tubes on one side of the hinge so the pin is held. With careful judgment the squeeze can be made effectively unnoticeable. Given a nice fit between pin and tube very little squeeze is needed. Its possible that one of the loctite retainers carefully worked into the end tube sections would hold things sufficiently well.

The one time I did something similar I assembled the short sections of tube onto the pin first, squeezed the end ones to hold the pin tight, jigged up the two parts and soldered things together. Naturally a little of the solder worked its way into the wrong place so some careful clean-up was needed.

Clive.

So, you don't want the wings to fold like they do on a butterfly, but to move so that they stay in the same plane and pivot around a point (or perhaps two points?) in the wing corner nearest the body in your diagrams.

If so, you could attach a short wire normal to the underside of the top wing (hard solder, eg) and drill holes for the pin in the wings below it and the body. In wear, the weight of the wings would hold them closed (looking rather like a moth). To display the wings you would need to be a bit clever (or just manipulate it with your fingers). It should be possible to hang a short cord or chain below the body, which when pulled resulted in the wings opening. But it is going to need some fiddly wirework etc, if it is to look convincing.

Regards, Tim (the last apprentice at the Guild of handicraft, Chipping Campden, but that was over fifty years ago)

I remember being taken there as a schoolboy by someone who needed a repair to a silver salver and being particularly struck by the aprons which connected the craftspeople to their benches; I think I was told that the precious sweepings were carefully collected at the end of the day.

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