Replacing/Upgrading pin backs?

[broncobilly83]

Lately, I have been getting older and older pins (that is what happens when you start a hobby that has been going on for 10+ years). Because of that, some of the pins I get do not have the standard Mickey ears pin back stopper. Some have the black rubber nubs, and some have the metal clasps.

My question is, when you get a pin like that, and you put it in your bag, book, collection, etc; do you replace the older style stopper with the new Mickey ears version, or leave the original in place?

 

[niknaxx]

The only backs I have changed (2) were VERY worn out and flimsy. Beyond that, I have just left whatever pin back I receive with the pin.

 

[mybabykelly]

I actually prefer the metal clasps because they don't fall off as easy as the rubber ones.

 

[Stitch2814]

not fussed really as most of mine end up in a bag as my pins are on pin boards so doesnt matter for me lol

 

[iamdisneydan]

Almost all of our keepers are either in frames, books or pin boards so no backs are used. Therefore, I have thousands of mickey ear spares if I ever wanted to replace one. On my lantard, I use really cool locking backs as I described in another thread.

 

[Tarzangoofster]

I have ended up using all the metal clasp backs I have received over the years in the framed pins that I make because they are thinner and don't stick out of the back of the frame too far. Other than that I just use the mickey heads. I got a pack of the locking backs once (the ones with the little L bar screwdriver thing) and it just turned into too much of a pain, so I use them to keep my pirate pins on my pirate hat for when I dress up at the Renn Fair every year.

 

[carolynhill]

I haven't always been able to keep the metal pinch-clasps with the older pins, but when I can keep them together, I like to do so rather than replace the old back with the new rubber backs. It just seems fitting somehow.

 

[shinny8]

I used to replace the older backs with new ones when i first started collecting but now i just leave the pin how it came to me

 

[gbdb4ever]

We replace them if they are loose, and usually switch from the metal clasp to the Mickey Head on the older pins.