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    Prong and Pins: Akward shapes

    Some badges, mainly insignias have brass prongs or pins; and they may come in an akwardly bent manner, making it not suitable to be placed into the shallow Riker Mounts.

    Do any of you attempt to bend the prongs to shape or best to leave them?
    If I were to attempt to bend them, so you have some advice?

    PS: I have tried using flat nose pliers to some degree of success but there's always the worry of breaking those prongs.

    Mil
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    What I do is to use a quite small pair of needle nose pliers ( no teeth on the ends) to hold the pin as close to the badge as possible and use another pair of jeweller's round nose pliers to make the bend. Always look for pliers with no teeth.
    This way there is no stress on the solder joint to the badge and you will almost always be bending the pin in a spot where it has not been bent before.
    Hope this helps,
    Ralph.

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      Another opinion is not to bend these at all. The risk is too high with brass pins to break them off even if you use to pliers. These pin can break at the midpoint of the entire length not nessarly at the point of soldering. If putting these in a riker frame use a quilter batting to set the medals on. It’s soft and has a cushion effect for all strangely bent pins. I have learned first hand about this problem and was a costly mistake. Thankfully it was not a muesum artifact

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        Paul, whats's a quilter batting?

        Mil

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          Mil... Poly batting is found in larger fabric stores. Quilters use the poly batting between layers of quilts(hand made bed coverings). It's 100% archival safe and most museums use it all the tine. It will not attract bugs, moisture, or odors. here's a not to good of a photo of it in this link
          http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=270189 look at posting #4 (top piece) if fairly inexpensive and you get a lot it's about 1 inch of poly batting. Paul
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