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Woodmeister - thanks but I did find mine. Got my casters on. Boy does it feel good to be able to roll my saw around again.

Well, I found mine so no need to get more. But I did get some dimensions.

The wire on the "External Hitch Pin" or Spring Clip or whatever else they call this thing is .042". The pin it goes on is .811"/13/16 and the groove the spring clip fits into is .708" / 45/64ths or 13/16ths.

Hope anyone ...

Thanks for the info. What a bummer that it is that non-standard. I will be in the shop tomorrow looking for the lost hitch pins and hope like heck I find them. Otherwise that link you provide might be the solution.

Thanks for the link. I was in a hurry so I didn't get to measure the pin diameter. Home Depot had the 3/4" ones and Amazon had a 10 pack of the The Hillman Group 3680 11/16-Inch External Hair Pin Clip Zinc Plated @ $16.00 for 10. The Home Depot price was in the 63 cent each range. Finding it on ...

It is now 2016 and I found some of these "external hitch pins" at Home Depot (the U shaped items). I have yet to try them but they do have a size 3/4". I could not find any larger ones but there are some smaller ones.

I found a few other sites with them but minimum quantities are something like 50 ...