Very surprised with the quality of this Preciva Vernier Caliper with a large digital readout for £20. I can't read the Mitutoyo one any more, the scale is too small.
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I bought a new vernier caliper off Amazon.
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2 years ago
How are you going to do precision engineering if you can't read the Mitutoyo scale?
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2 years ago
He'll just use the Mitutoyo as a parallel scriber like everyone on youtube seems to :-)
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In message <s8ivp6$mso$ snipped-for-privacy@dont-email.me, jon snipped-for-privacy@nospam.cn writes
Now go and buy a stock of CR3032s or remember to take the battery out when you put it away:-(
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2 years ago
Probably easier to use CR2032s.
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ops!:-)
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2 years ago
The plastic ones are brilliant, too, cheaper, £7-8. I have one in every tool bag, like a tape measure. Mainly I use them because my eyes aren't up to reading a ruler without glasses.
I find I don't need/want the added precision of the fine adjustment wheel on the posher versions. For precise stuff I use a micrometer.
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Quite. The Mitutoyo has an amazing battery life. Cheap ones usually not.
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2 years ago
I've got a digital readout tape measure.
A vernier calliper is usually for where you need a more accurate measurement than is easy with a tape measure.
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2 years ago
+1
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Out of interest, Fred, is it your newsreader which has abbreviated my email address just above this? Be better if it removed the whole sig. That's why there is a separator.
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I thought they used LR44 / AG13's. One a month if you're lucky. Or if you take the battery out when not using it, the contact breaks off after a while.
That's why I bought a Mitutoyo Absolute in the end (nice big readable display) after two cheapies broke. But yes, they are amazingly accurate for the money.
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Yeah I didn't mean the calliper was a replacement for a tape measure, just a piece of equipment I always like to have in the bag. In practice I use it more as I would a ruler. I often use a laser distance meter instead of a tape measure.
All these wonderful tools. I wonder how my dad got anything done.