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[Ian Williams]

You can purchase silver steel from model engineering suppliers amongst others. You need access to a lathe to turn a shoulder on the new pin or make slightly oversize pins, I have on occasion bored the the holes in toggles back to round and square, then made new pins to suit. Of course you can braze/ silver solder up the worn holes and then bore them back to size, you can also sleeve the bore of the cam to remove wear on the spindle. As Chris said accuracy is important for a good function, particularly with points, unless of course you use electronic which can accomodate all sorts of vagaries in the mechanism as we have seen with the Accuspark units which have more slop new than many worn Lucas units.