If you're tired of your plastic sheave gauges cracking and warping, you can purchase a metal sheave gauge for nearly the same price. Donahue Industries sells fractional (Imperial) sheave gauges in five different sizes:
 If you're tired of your plastic sheave gauges wearing and need something more durable, you can order a brand new metal sheave gauge on Amazon or eBay. Within a few clicks and a couple of days, you can own a long-lasting metal sheave gauge to inspect your wire rope sheaves.   Designing a product? If you're thinking about manufacturing with metal instead of plastic, think about these 5 great reasons why metal might be a better choice for you:
Crane and rigging training institutes: give away metal sheave gauges for less than $10 per set8/1/2016  Crane and rigging training institutes can now provide trainees with durable, long-lasting sheave gauges as giveaways at a fraction of the cost competitors charge.
Our most popular sheave gauge - called our Special Group I (1/4" - 1-1/2") - sells for less than $10 each at high volume quantities (1,000+). That's about 10% of the price of any durable metal sheave gauge you can find in North America. (Even for 1 gauge, you'd pay about 25% of the price competitors charge for metal sheave gauges.) Add imprinting so your trainees can more easily remember you or send clients your way, and it's just a bit more per set. How we keep our prices low for you We stamp our metal sheave gauges - giving you the same precision as a laser cut option but more durability than plastic options. Don't just take our word for it. Get a sample or see our prices.  We plan to introduce metric sheave gauge sets at plastic prices to give you the best prices available in the global market. We're figuring out what leaf sizes you need to create the tooling to stamp out the sets. If you're looking for 500+ metric sheave gauges per year, email us at sales@donahueindustries.com.
Have others sheave gauge needs? Give us a call: 508-845-6501 or email sales@donahueindustries.com.  Riggers, there's an app out called Crane & Rigger that lets you:
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Check out the app.  Thinking about purchasing sheave gauges? Here are 4 great reasons why metal might be a better choice for you than plastic:
Donahue Industries isn't just the 2.5% tolerance company anymore. We plan to introduce more sets - at other tolerances, sizes, and ranges - to give you what you need at the best prices available in the global market. What do you need? We're finding out:
Then we'll make the tooling so we can provide you with the most cost-competitive metric metal sheave gauges on the market.
 Use a sheave gauge to regularly check sheave grooves for wear, which may slow or block a wire rope:
For an ACCURATE wire rope diameter measurement to determine if you should retire the wire rope, use a machinist’s caliper or micrometer. To properly use a caliper to assure accurate measurement:
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