Best pins & tacks according to redditors
We found 73 Reddit comments discussing the best pins & tacks. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 73 Reddit comments discussing the best pins & tacks. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
You can buy just a replacement pin:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L5T2LNW
Update
I found 2.5mm magnets here for US folks.
https://www.umagnets.com/p/n35-9mm-x-2-5mm-neodymium-disc-magnets-strong-craft-magnets-rare-earth-9-x-2-5mm-round/
Hi friends, while I am still building my Steck I wanted to go ahead and share with you my solution to the whole panel mounting bits.
The included magnets in the Steck are the adhesive flexible type and not really my type of attraction. I measured the distance to flush and found that the top panel is 1mm and the side panels are 2.5mm (near exact).
I ordered a small set of 1mm magnets on amazon and they tested out perfect. (See photos) and I could not find an exact 2.5mm because all searches came up as “balls”. Fortunately I had ordered these office/fridge magnets and inside are exactly the 2.5mm magnet I was looking for!
1mm magnets here,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MFQ3XDV/
2.5mm donor magnets here,
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SCHYYOQ/
Later on I will make a measurement guide for the “perfect” alignment when supergluing these to your Steck panels.
I think a small guide/template with these types of magnets should have been included in the Steck; since the panels can have a lot free movement, these strong magnets provide a stricter placement making the best of these included panels.
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Absolutely no prob :)
My mom reviews electronics for a living so we end up getting tons of new devices really often and generally need to find cables to match so things are being switched out and added in all the time. To make it more convenient instead of having to go sort through a box or into a drawer and untangle cables I wanted something super easy access to so that if i needed an hdmi , bam, I had one. Same with the others.
For the controllers I used Stick-On Game Controller Hooks 2 Pack. The snes and nes usb controllers are simply hung via a tack.
I got a simple ~$10 corkboard from walmart, used a label maker for the labels and then used CraZy TACKz 36tacks to hang the cables. I wouldn't recommend them though, a standard tack works better honestly ( In theory a hook is great but they loosen and then swing around making it a pain to re-orient them when you're taking things on and off frequently.)
The headphones under the desk is The Anchor Great adhesive, super cheap and can orient it vertically or horizontally which lets you fit two pair ( in my case one for skype/discord+gaming and the other for general use since it has better quality but no mic)
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For anyone else curious about the other pieces of the set up:
the desk is Series A:72inch Desk by Bush Business Furinture.
The lights are EconoLed RGB 5M 3528 LED Strip Light 300leds
Mousepad is Reflex Lab Huge Gaming Mouse Pad
The headphones are :
SteelSeries Arctis 5 and Audio-Technica ATH-A900X
Monitors are : ASUS VN279QL and Dell U3417W FR3PK
Keyboard is : Razer BlackWidow X Tournament Edition Chroma
Mouse is : Razer Naga Hex v2
All my miniatures get a steel disc glued into the base. I do this for a couple reasons. Mostly, it’s a tactile decision. I want the lightweight plastic pieces to have a mass appropriate to their size when I pick them up.
Most standard sized miniatures between 28 and 32 mm will only weigh a 3-5 grams after painted, but if you glue a 20, 25 and 30mm steel discs to their base they will weigh in around 10-14 grams. A subtle, but very noticeable improvement. The difference is like playing with cheap plastic poker chips and heavy 14 gram 3-color clay poker chips in Vegas.
In addition to the improved haptics, there are a few other benefits of adding steel disc to the base of all your minis.
Having the steel/iron in the base allows for a lot of secondary benefits. Most obvious is the partnership with Magnets. I glue a rare-earth magnet into the base or lid of a standard film canister and use that to hold my miniatures while I’m painting. The magnet system is strong enough to hold a miniature firmly in place for painting - I’ve used it for mini’s up to 60mm.
Obviously, the film canister system acts as a good handle to hold your mini during painting. Super fast and easy to take one mini off and snap another one. The system is cheap/simple enough that you could rig 10-12 canisters with magnets for painting large collections of troops.
IF you want to be clever, you could glue in a steel disc on the opposite end of the canister and add a row of (rare-earth) magnets somewhere near your workspace to safely store and place a mini to dry without worrying about it toppling over. Plus if you did that, the magnetic lids/bottoms of the canister will stack and stick together in storage.
For table top games that use trays to manage miniatures (Cmon’s ASOIAF for instance) the steel based-minis and a (small) magnet glued to the bottom of those trays help player usability quite a bit. The pieces snap (gently) into place and won’t topple over as easily if you ham-fist a move during the game.
Anything like a film canister will work. A link to bulk order of a 100 I used below. The canisters come in handy for holding custom mixes of paints, PVA, basing materials, and acrylic varnishes too. And if you don’t like magnets, poster-tack works OK.
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NOTE RE: Glue
For gluing various plastics/resins, steel, and magnets I tried several types of glue: CA, PVA, 2-part epoxy, and hot-glue - NONE of those seem to really stick metal and plastic together in a durable way. The glue I found works was Gorilla glue. The small 2 Oz bottle is enough for hundreds of mini’s - and it goes bad in about a year at the rate we’ll use it in this hobby. — A couple caveats to this type of glue. A tiny drop is enough. The glue will tend to expand/foam/bubble slightly in the presence of water/moisture so test and plan accordingly. This isn’t a big deal, but it can create an unsightly unwanted yellow booger. I cover it in a primer coat just so it’s uniform looking.
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In 2018, I started buy tabletop games and painting miniatures. It started as a way to divert my grandson from video games, but it’s now it’s become my hobby too.
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100 Film Canisters
https://www.amazon.com/Houseables-Containers-Developing-Processing-Accessories/dp/B06XS21KMH/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1550432613&sr=8-2&keywords=film+cannisters+with+caps
Small Magnets for trays
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CNBSMDZ/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
VERY Strong Rare-Earth Neodymium Magnets for Painting Canisters
https://www.amazingmagnets.com/sf-disc-magnets.aspx
Steel disc blanks for miniature base (check sizes that will work for your base)
https://www.amazingmagnets.com/p-484-znsd032h.aspx
Fender washers
Local hardware store you can get Fender washers that have a 20-30 mm diameter.
Gorilla Glue
https://www.amazon.com/Gorilla-Original-Waterproof-Polyurethane-Bottle/dp/B0000DD5EN/ref=sr\_1\_16?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1550435031&sr=1-16&keywords=gorilla+glue
E6000 glue is the only one that sticks to perler or artkal beads. For magnets, I got these on Amazon FINDMAG 100Pieces 10X2mm Premium Brushed Nickel Pawn Style Magnetic Push Pins,Fridge Magnets, Office Magnets, Dry Erase Board Magnetic pins, Whiteboard Magnets,Refrigerator Magnets https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CNBSMDZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jnl1BbNNPYA6S
Story time:
I liked one cat. His name was Mo and he was a bad ass cat. My sister brought him home from HS as a kitten than proceded to step on him the same day shattering his hip. The vet pinned his hip with a couple of t-pins. I have no idea what that cost my parents in 1975. It couldn't have been cheap.
My friends were totally scared of him. He would come up and rub their legs on the front porch and purr when they petted him. Then turn around and attack them if they didn't let him in the front door. Mo took on squirrels and won. Leaving their bodies on the front sidewalk. No wildlife was safe.
His biggest claim to fame was he's probably the only cat in the city to have been maced by the mailman. Twice. Our mailbox was in the wall of the front porch which had bushes right up to the steps. Mo would stalk you from the bushes and attack your feet as you passed through. He did the same thing from under the ottoman first thing in the morning. The mailman just didn't have the sense of humor that we did about it.
Mo was scared of garbage trucks though. One year, while we were packing up to leave a campground, one came through to pick up the trash. Mo was gone in a flash trailing 25 feet of rope. it took us an hour to track him down deep in the woods. He was wailing away complaining because his rope was stuck in a pine tree.
Mo had lived a long and eventful life when he passed away in 1994 at the age of 19.
1” or 2” T-pins work wonders and leave a very small hole. Smaller than a standard thumbtack.
You can move them too.
https://www.amazon.com/ADVANTUS-Gem-1-5-Inch-T-Pins-100/dp/B001PLOM8Y
T-Pins! Lightly tap them in with a hammer. Stays up and leaves no mark when you pull them out.
I was in your exact situation and here's what I did.
I ordered 2 of these to fill my 10' x 10' playspace https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B017HQVOP4/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I ordered 5 boxes of these to attach them. 1 in each corner, and 1 in the middle of each tile. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001PLOM8Y/ref=yo_ii_img?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I angled the pins so that they went all the way in and are sturdier.
For mounting the lighthouses, it would be best to mount on a sturdier wall similar to the way I did in my image.
Here's what it looks like. https://i.sli.mg/8ICrPn.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Officemate-Giant-Assorted-Colors-92902/dp/B000AN7FYG
Maybe those would work?
Bookends
Fun stickers
For your wall
Storage bins
Other storage
Make your files pretty
USB lamp
Nifty lamp shade
Googley eye push pins
Edit: decorate already!
Everyone needs GooglyEye Push Pins you know you do...
Because googly eyes
best i can do
I use these and either these or these. Soak it for about 30 minutes, then press out as much of the water as you can with your hands (squeeze gently, don’t wring it) and then using two towels (step on it!). Then arrange the mat pieces into a long strip on the carpet or a table (protect it with a towel or something) and stretch it as long as you’d like and as wide as it’ll go and pin it to the board in even sections. If you do end up blocking it, take before and after photos so you can see the difference. This is my favorite part 🙃
8 Pack Magnet Makers - Innovative Thumbtack + Magnet - Make Any Surface Magnetic & Hang Pictures, Posters, Maps, Etc. With NO HOLES! Works on Walls, Bulletin Boards, Cork & More! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WLLDH88/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a5ELBb01PFBN2
It was nice meeting you too! Here is the shadow box I mentioned that you can mount your stick in. You can use these hooks to mount it. You might need to bend them with pliers to adjust them to fit the stick diameter.
I don't know if there is any wrong way to do it, other than just getting foam on as many of the hard surfaces as you can. Reverb is about sound being able to bounce around a space for a long time, and every dead surface a sound wave encounters is going to reduce the amount of reverb. So get a rug down if you have a hard floor, think about your ceilings and put foam tiles up on the walls!
I don't know if this is the kind of 'trick' you're looking for, but I built out a podcasting studio for work last year and I didn't want to use spray adhesive to get the tiles stuck to the walls, so what I ended up using were these T pins. They stick into drywall nicely, and are pretty secure if you give them a couple taps with a mallet.
It’s hard to tell, but I used wooden push pins
https://www.amazon.com/Tupalizy-Wooden-Boards-Projects-Natural/dp/B073QHBCN3
I could really use These or these.
You look smashing today!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bostik-801103-Blu-Tack-Handy/dp/B0001OZI70
The phone is water resistant to IP rating 67.
Some people use blu-tac to remove the muck from the speaker grill.
This is an experimental board, with coils of different sizes, to see what works best. Some of the coils also have holes in the middle, of different sizes, so I can experiment with adding a steel thumbtack to serve as the hysteresis element. They are standard thumbtacks that you can buy in office supply stores. The plan is to hold them in place by making the hole a bit small and jamming the thumbtack in. It's not something that can be removed once in place. So now the idea is to find an ideal hole size and thumb tack size to achieve this effect.
I really like these magnets personally. I feel they are a nice line between cutesy and artsy, they fall within your budget, I don't expect they'll take 3 weeks to be delivered if you were to buy them. Unfortunately I cannot at all speak to their utility since I don't own them, but the picture of these magnets implies that they aren't at all lacking in that department either. Thank you for holding the contest :), I hope you find nice magnets in any case even if these ones aren't to your taste.
This, and this and this are both really cool. (They are both on my wishlist, but I am a UK user, so these are the US links)
Also, your music taste is impeccable!
> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WLLDH88/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a5ELBb01PFBN2
Solved!
Cats!
Little butterflies!
Pretty flowers!
Rainbow owls!
Hope you have fun shopping!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bostik-801103-Blu-Tack-Handy/dp/B0001OZI70
It might have another name but it's that putty thing that you use to stick posters and stuff to walls. It should be easy enough to find. Here's a link on amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0001OZI70/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_vq56xbCKKGW0A
They are called T Pins or Quilters Pins
EDIT: I should say that I have heard them called quilters pins, but a google search for quilters pins returns these further down the page than i would expect if they were commonly called that.
Strong refrigerator magnets (I love these ones)
I've got these mustache pins for exactly $6.56!
$6.56! :D
You can buy a large push pin and have your daughter do artwork with a push pin. The push pin will automatically require the proper finger positioning used for markers/pencils, just due to its shape. She can trace shapes or you can make shapes for her, have her push-pin them out, and then she can glue her shapes to a picture.
I use t-pins.
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Source-T-Pins-2-Inch-Silver/dp/B004IPX0XC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1484674506&sr=8-5&keywords=T+pins
They make very small holes that are easily filled with spackle.
This is the brand I usually use.
However, When I did the show Tu Si Que Vales in Italy, they offered to buy the tacks for me, and bought me these. They were much bigger than I usually use, but I made it work!
Happy cake day!!!
1 Rubber spatulas that I would use to mix up my cake, or icing colors which I use to die icings for cakes I make!
2 This one is a stretch but portal socks because Simon Pegg did voices for video games...and Portal is a video game!
3 I don't have any books on my WL. :P but.... I'd like to read this bag while I devour it's contents!
4 Mixing bowls. My SO tends to eat his cereal out of the few I have now >.<
5 Gecko food for our gecko! It even has a picture of one on the label!
6 Purple socks or purple nail polish!
7 Portal companion cube!
8 My (not so guilty) pleasure.
9 Pocket knife!
10 The definition of my childhood!
11 Literally for organizing!
12 My favorite hobby is baking!
13 PlayStation 4 could be geeky to some.
14 Made with 100% natural almonds!
15 Green socks!
16 I can wear these adorable leggings!
17 Funny candles!!
18 NSFW beads...
19 Gardening boots!
20 The item I love is this mixer!
I think you will buy these!
Here's what I did before I assembled my blocking kit:
0. Buy t-pins
Hi Everyone OP here. This project is something I wanted to do for years but I wanted it done right. I'm not super skilled in the DIY area so I wanted to make this process as simple as possible and I think I accomplished that! Feel free to post any questions about this and I will respond as quickly as possible. However, here are the very high level steps outline below.
How to Make a Framed Corkboard Map
1.Purchase corkboard, map, and map pins from Amazon or somewhere else
2.Unscrew corkboard frame
3.Tape map every 2 to 3 inches to the corkboard on all four sides
Note: Start at the top, and then move clockwise.
4.Place frame back on corkboard. Be careful not to snag the map
Note: This process may take a little finesse and time. For me it was easier to put the top and bottom on first the fit the sides.
5.Screw the corner brackets back in
6.Apply pins as you wish!
Edit: formatting
Edit2: links