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I'm afraid a couple of your correspondents have been misleading us.
Firstly Neil Cairns in RC240 insists that split pins are not cotter pins. Cotter pins are indeed those with the angled face, used for fixing bicycle pedals, kickstarts and the like, it's true. But the pins colloquially known as split pins are properly known as split cotter