Headless panel pins

[John Brown]

I have a broken frame and panel door on a kitchen unit. I can probably glue it back together, but it has laid on mouldings held with 0.7mm square headless pins - no doubt applied with a power tool. One piece isn't held on any more...
My budget nailer/stapler takes much larger brads. Is there something I can knock in with a hammer?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Veneer pins?

 

[Rorschach]

What about just glue and tape to hold it place while it dries? Or use the wood glue and super glue trick?

 

[John Brown]

Veneer pins?

Thanks. I will look on Amazon. Doubt my local hardware store stocks them.

 

[John Brown]

What about just glue and tape to hold it place while it dries? Or use the wood glue and super glue trick?

The originals aren't glued at all. Maybe something to do with the floating panel, and the difficulty of keeping glue away from it.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Veneer pins?

Thanks. I will look on Amazon. Doubt my local hardware store stocks them.

Loads of them, but look for the better ones - thinner with next to no heads.

 

[Rorschach]

What about just glue and tape to hold it place while it dries? Or use the wood glue and super glue trick?

The originals aren't glued at all. Maybe something to do with the floating panel, and the difficulty of keeping glue away from it.

Ah ok. Well thick CA glue is pretty easy to control and probably holds almost as well as little pins do. Just put a few blobs on here rather than a bead.

 

[Jacob]

You need a pinpush, or pushpin, sometimes called a rampin or brad pusher
£15 ish from toolpost and others

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Slightly off tack, if you need thin pins with decent flat heads go to an apiarists' supplier and get "chemically blackened gimp pins" which are used for hive frames. You used to be able to buy pin pushes that had been bored out to use with them - you may still be able to.

 

[John Brown]

My dad used to have a pinpush/pushpin. I've done tye job now. My local hardware store (Durcans) did have something suitable, and I used a hammer and a nail punch.
Thanks anyway.