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@Skülly
I've had mixed experience with this pin business. Built a Claud with Chater leas a while back, after a bit of trial and error (filing the faces of the pins (old good ones) til they sat snugly) it all worked a treat for a good year of daily riding.
Then moved all the components, same pins, to a new bike. Never got them to work well, think I may have ruined the cups with hammering the pins in and out. And the pins just wouldn't sit well. Gave up.
Spudger mentions Rob having the right tool - a cotter pin press. It's an important detail. Unfortunately you'd have to go back every time you wanted to remove the pins to file them a bit.
+1 on the cotterless. You can get nice-looking cranks to work well, a lot more easily. Stradas 'for the win' (shudder).