Thumb Tacks

Matching the right thumb tack or push pin with the right job

Look around your office, shop, store, factory or warehouse, and you'll probably see at least a few thumbtacks or push pins stuck in walls or cork boards. You may go through dozens at a time or keep a box for a few years; either way, you can always find any type of push pin or thumbtack you need online.

Think about how and where you'll use your thumbtacks or push pins before you order them. For example, thumbtacks will stay put better than push pins when you push them into a wall, while either works well in a cork board. While shopping for thumbtacks and push pins online, also remember the following:

1. For ease of use, choose push pins over thumbtacks if you periodically need to remove or rearrange the items you've attached.

2. Find thumbtacks that blend into a wall or piece of wood if you don't want them to show.

3. Check the minimum quantity or purchase that a particular company requires before you get too far in your search for thumbtacks.

 

Choose traditional push pins and thumbtacks if style doesn't matter

You can always pick up thumbtacks and push pins on an office supply run, but you can order thumb tacks and other supplies online to save money and time with needless car trips. You'll find wholesale thumb tacks in large quantities, but you'll just as easily find economical pricing for smaller quantities, too.
Try: If you go through tons of push pins hanging pictures, posters and other items to walls or bulletin boards, consider buying any of the aluminum head pushpin styles from Keysan; the pins, made of steel, insert into hard-to-penetrate surfaces without breaking. Order assorted wholesale thumbtacks and push pins by the case from DollarDays International; take advantage of their prices by completing their free registration form. To hang light pictures and other wall hangings, buy decorative, brass-plated push-pin hangers from Hardware and Tools.

Order push pins for industrial applications

If you need push pins in an industrial environment or for the product you manufacture, you can find sources online.
Try: Buy magnetic push pins from CMS Magnetics that let you attach up to 16 pieces of paper to any magnetic surface; use the push pins to hang product notices, operating instructions or procedures and policies to a magnetic white board in you factory or warehouse where all your employees have access. Volt Industrial Plastics manufactures plastic push pins; they offer product samples and can custom tool the push pins you need. Contact Diamond Fasteners, an industrial pin distributor, to see if they carry the push pins you need for your industrial application.

Buy decorative push pins and decorative thumbtacks to dress up your bulletin board

Decorative thumb tacks and push pins reflect a little of your personality when added to a cork board or bulletin board to post pictures, menus, contact lists or memos. Custom thumbtacks may cost a little more, but they look great.
Try: If you own a scrapbooking business or a children's' furniture or clothing store, choose from the large selection of decorative push pins sold individually at Cottage Classics Design; use them on your bulletin board or to display outfits on your walls. If you like birds, you'll enjoy the custom thumb tacks and push pins at Alicia's Creations; you can request your own color scheme for each decorative thumb tack to match your own bird or your favorite bird, but prepare yourself for a wait since the artist hand sculpts all pins and jewelry. You'll want to create your own designs on the bulletin board with the selection of beautiful hand-casted Pewter push pins you'll find at Jim Clift Design; the artist includes his signature on each decorative push pin.

 

• Don't use pushpins to hang heavy pictures or any picture framed in glass. Since they're not designed to handle a heavy weight, you could end up sweeping glass and replacing frames.

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