For removing cotter pins, you’ll need a push-pin tool, a small ball-peen hammer and a watch-bracelet holder — most of which you can get in a preassembled kit. But if you’re in a hurry, or you don’t ...

The chief engineer at B.C. Ferries says a missing metal cotter pin caused last week's crash of the Queen of Oak Bay at the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal. FROM JUNE 30, 2005: Ferry hits marina, no ...

The remedy is simple enough, though. Engineers will go over the 219 cars' rear spoilers, and they'll install the missing cotter pins if they see that they're missing.