i like your idea bear with the silver dollars...

also your tip is great phil, it would the lost of the pin, but not that the closure would open when its loose, teh main reason for loosing our pins.

in my short kilt time i had one of my pins having a loose closure, so i bent the needle with forceps in the direction needed, so that the closure got a tension from the bent needle, that until yet holds it perfectly on the kilt.

just feel free to correct me if my
english to weird ;)