pins

[Vinny]

As I mentioned in another thread (loctite) I'm putting two gears together. I've loctited and pressed them together (the loctite showed up early) and I'm at the pinning stage. I have some 1/8" 1018 round that I am/was planning on using for the pins, set it up on the mill (made a pot chuck to hold it in the vise), and drilled a small pilot hole about 0.250" deep. I figured an 1/8" end mill would be good but just to make sure I ran the end mill in about 0.075" and checked the round for fit. Dropped right in. So that's not the right size end mill and it's back to the drill bits. I have number, letter and fractional bits. What size should I be using for these pins?

I've been taking pics throughout this process and will be posting in the Projects forum as soon as I can figure out how to get them off the tablet. So far email hasn't worked, I guess bluetooth is next. Worse comes to worse, thumb drive should work.