Replacement Triton Mark 3 Locking Pins

**happyinmotion** · 7th November 2011, 08:12 AM

These seem as rare as hen's teeth. Carbatec don't have them, nor does any other place that I've found. So I pretty gutted when I discovered that I'd lost mine while moving house, leaving me up the creek.

I thought about bodging some up, but they're an annoying shape, so instead I thought to myself - this is the Twenty-First Century. Thus I fired up the CAD and had some 3D printed in stainless steel. If you need a locking pins yourself, I've put the design up at Shapeways and you can order pins direct from them.

I've made the lugs a fairly tight fit with the idea that it's going to be much easier to file them down if they're too tight than building them up with they're too loose. I've also cored out the pins to make them into tubes, to save on the volume that has to be printed, because you pay for every cubic millimetre. (Pics and more details of the build at my blog.)

They're more expensive than the originals, but no-one's making the originals any more. Still, I reckon 23 Euros each plus shipping is pretty cheap for one-off replacement parts and it's cheaper than a new workstation. I'm not adding any markup on these, coz I don't know about you, but I just like fixing old kit if I can.

(Postscript - Of course, I've now found the original locking pins. Bother.)

**bpj1968** · 10th November 2011, 07:29 AM

This is what I did when I had my Mk3 and lost one pin

use a bolt (or steel rod) where the shaft (unthreaded section) is the same diameter as the locking pin, and long enough to go through the table end and into the table top.

next find a nut that fits over the shaft of the bolt (1-2 sizes up) and also as wide as the gap between the table end and the table top.

From the outside of the table, put the bolt through the end, then the nut, and then into the table top.

I would do this first then put into the last 3 locking pins which would lock it all in place. It worked well and the table top didn't rock or move.

You could easily rig it up so it is permanently mounted at one end similar to the router stand.
Maybe cut the head off the bolt and grind a bit of a point to it, weld the nut about 5-10mm from the cut end. put it through the end panel from eth insdie and secure teh other end with the proper size nut and washer. You would have to do it so that the unthreaded shaft went through all 3 holes, as the threaded section would allow a bit of free play.

**jimmyh** · 27th November 2011, 07:01 AM

Wow happyinmotion, that is an awesome solution. Someone could make a few quid designing unobtainable spares for old Tritons I dare say

**Chrism3** · 7th December 2011, 10:21 PM

I just met Gordon Heggie, the Triton Brand Manager with Kincrome, the new Triton distributors. He mentioned that he had stumbled upon a cache of these, so people needing them could contact him at Kincrome in Melbourne.

**munruben** · 13th December 2011, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by happyinmotion

(Postscript - Of course, I've now found the original locking pins. Bother.)

Typical of course.

**Chrism3** · 16th December 2011, 04:50 PM

As Chicka1940 has posted on another thread, Carbatec now have these at $10 a pair plus postage.

**emmejm** · 12th April 2024, 10:32 PM

Hi, appreciate this is an old thread, but do you still have access the CAD model? Having real difficulty in finding dimensions for these locking pins. Would happily make one myself but can't seem to work out the dimensions

**Chrism3** · 13th April 2024, 10:28 AM

there are some on ebay. this one is the cheapest:
Triton Workcentre mk3 parts - One L-Shaped Locking Pin. | eBay

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