u/madsci

This is part of a bench support for the dinette in an RV. It was apparently overloaded at some point and these knurled captive pins on both brackets got bent out of shape. I've gotten one of them out. The other side is a button head, and I'm assuming this was installed with a press.

I haven't been able to find a replacement on McMaster-Carr, I'm not sure if the hole is still in shape to take a replacement, and I'm not sure of the ability of my little press to install one so I'm thinking I'll probably just weld something in.

Are there unthreaded weld-in pins that will do what I want? What should I be searching for? It looks like I could cut off the end of a 3/8" bolt with an unthreaded shoulder and weld the head on but I feel like there must be a proper part for this.

I got my first EHT150 through Vine a couple of years ago. It's now the only product I've filed two CPSC incident reports for.

The first unit was operating on concrete in my shop. I walked past it and bumped it with my foot. It has a tip-over safety switch that uses a protruding button on the bottom, and the rocking of the bumped heater caused the switch to open and close rapidly and caused arcing that completely melted the switch.

Ecowell sent me a replacement, which I've been using on office carpet, off to the side where it can't get kicked. But now there's a new issue - twice (that I'm aware of) the heater has simply turned on its heating element with no warning and no indication it's running, and critically without the fan running.

Both times I've located it by smell. The first time I thought maybe I'd done something to it and figured I'd just keep a close eye on it. This time the burning smell was worse and I didn't realize what was happening until the heater started to make a buzzing noise. I was sitting near it the whole time and I'm 100% certain I didn't bump it or touch any controls.