Where to buy pin gauge set

Where can you buy an inexpensive pin gauge set to check the cylinder throats in my revolvers? Triker

I bought mine on Ebay. McMaster Carr is a good choice. Check with Brownells/Sinclair. I found a complete set for a good price on Ebay.

With McMaster Carr, you can buy the specfic size range.

daveg.inkc said:

With McMaster Carr, you can buy the specfic size range.

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Plus 1, or two, or ten, or whatever. McMaster offers all the pins needed or desired, without any excess. And they are not expensive.

Simply a word of advice: You only want -(minus) plug gauges, mine are .001. If you want throats to be .430, you want a minus plug that says .430. A .430 gauge can't possibly fit in a .430 hole. The plug will measure .429 for a .430 hole. Confused yet?

^Mostly correct. Actually, you probably want class ZZ minus gauges, which will be about 0.0002" smaller than the nominal size and provide a snug sliding fit in a hole of the nominal size. Pin gauges are a simple grinding operation on a piece of hardened steel, buy the cheapest ones you can find on Amazon, eBay, etc. and they should be fine for home shop purposes.

If you are looking, I have a set of minus .251-500.

Got mine from Amazon. Plastic case is sorta cheap but it will serve my purposes, seems like it was around $95.