Primer piercing and recoil pad

[Seth Mackay-Smith]

While I'm sitting around hoping for someone to respond with actual measurements of their plungers, could someone please let me know where to get new ones? I'd like to get a set and though I could simply make my own I'd rather have the benefit of a trusted supplier's expertise.
Thanks,
Seth

[WHO]

I measured how far the pins extended from the breach face of my 20 gauge top lever hammer gun and came up with .085" by using a feeler gauge. I refuse to grind down the pins on this valuable gun, so 20 gauge RST shells will not be purchased by me anymore. It actually angers me that RST doesn't use top quality components since this ammo is meant to be used in valuable antique firearms, some of which are irreplaceable.

[Seth Mackay-Smith]

Thanks Wayne, really appreciate the reply. It does seem to make sense to simply buy better components; I wonder whether anyone had suggested to them to do that because we would be willing to pay for good product? There may be a mistaken feeling that people are too price driven to support such a change. But I'm very new to this and obviously don't really know.

[WHO]

There is a previous post on this site where one of our members informed the RST owner during a side by side event of this exact problem. The member stated in the post that the owner seemed to be unconcerned. It seems to me this post was about 2 years ago.

[B. Dudley]

Originally Posted by Seth Mackay-Smith

While I'm sitting around hoping for someone to respond with actual measurements of their plungers, could someone please let me know where to get new ones? I'd like to get a set and though I could simply make my own I'd rather have the benefit of a trusted supplier's expertise.
Thanks,
Seth

I just went through my parts bin and pulled out all of the T/L firing pin plungers that I have. 9 in total. They measure from 1.003" to 1.016"

You're welcome.

[Seth Mackay-Smith]

Great, thank you very much, Brian. Looking at some old threads, others have eyed up a measurement of an inch, so looks like that was the spec.
Appreciate the info.
Seth