Your on the right track measuring. Buy several plates up and down in size from what you measured and pick the one that works the best fro your seed.
I use a 1978A plate most every year. I plant Funks G90. I have collected 30-40 different plates as they come up on ebay, all metal ones.
Back in the day the feed store would sell or loan the appropriate plate for the seed they sold.
I look at the seed and decide if it's mostly rounds or flats and pick the appropriate plate.
Unfortunately none of the seed i've been able to buy lately is gauged by the manufacturer. I remember back in the day being able to buy seed that was consistently flats of rounds. Now they're all mixed.
Previous advise to put seed in planter and check for dropped kernels is a good technique. Buy several plates and just see which one drops the most evenly.
I spent many hours and multiple plantings really studying this and found that for my sweet corn patch it's just not that critical. My C251 planter will plant way more sweet corn that we can eat,freeze or give away.
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