Pin for swim platform

[mf01]

Last weekend I got out on the lake and my swim platform was coming up. I found out that one of the pins got pulled somewhere. I don't really know how, since the pins aren't that easy to pull out. I went to home depot this morning and all they had were thin metal pins. Does anyone know where I can get one? Maybe ACE Hardware or some other store.

[Fredk]

RE: Pin for swim platform

Same thing happened to our old '95 SN several years ago. I found some pins at Lowe's. They were slightly larger, but worked great.

[campbelljo]

might try FASTENAL or GRAINGER.

[RCHANDED]

I think White Lake as them

[DanielC]

Your dealer. Marine supply store. Industrial bolt supply house. Is it a cotter pin (bent piece of wire) or a hitch pin? A tractor dealet might have the hitch pin, but probably not a stainless one.

[mf01]

Your dealer. Marine supply store. Industrial bolt supply house. Is it a cotter pin (bent piece of wire) or a hitch pin? A tractor dealet might have the hitch pin, but probably not a stainless one.

It looks more like a hitch pin.

[mf01]

Grainger and Fastenal are in the same building which was literally a couple blocks from my office. I went to Grainger, they didn't have any stainless in stock. I went to Fastenal and they only had a Zinc one. So I bought the Zinc one($.23) for the weekend and ordered 5 stainless ones from Grainger. Thanks for the info.

[jroyal]

If you are lazy and don't want to drive.........

http://www.shopwhitelake.com/platformpins.html

[jhiestand]

Wow! $3.50 for the 2001 and more vintage boats is some pretty hefty markup! I've lost probably 4 of those to date so picked up a handful of them at the local True Value hardware store. I know they were under a buck apiece.

I took my remaining pin in and went through all their fasteners and found replacements the same size. I wonder if the '02 and newer style pin would fit my older boat?

[TRBenj]

I wonder if the '02 and newer style pin would fit my older boat?

The newer style pin is bigger in diameter- eyeballing it Id say its 1/4" in diam vs. the 1/4" of the earlier pins. Im sure it would work if you simply drilled out the holes.