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After finishing the hinge pin retention yesterday, I decided I wanted to do something
slightly different. I think I want to avoid putting any large-ish holes through the
sides of the lid. Since that hinge pin retainer would have required a flat head screw,
it would end up cutting away a lot of material. Instead of that, I just made up a new
retainer. This one will screw through the top of the lid which is much more stout.
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In order to avoid putting a large hole through the other side of the lid, I decided to
work on coming up with an alternate approach to the button I had machined earlier.
This took quite a bit of time...I probably mentally designed 50 different latching approaches...
none of which seemed ideal. Finally, I hit on an approach I liked. I'll show the result
in a day or two.
By this time, the mail had arrived, and my (soft) rivets along with it.
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