On Monday 31 October 2016 08:03:15 Leonardo Marsaglia wrote: > 2016-10-31 8:28 GMT-03:00 andy pugh <[email protected]>: > > My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low > > battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year. > > (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then flash > > the display for about a year?) > > Anyway, moving the slider very slowly it goes from 0.3995" straight > > to 1.200", then acts a bit random until it switches from 1,499 to a > > (correct) 0.800" > > Which surprised me, I had assumed that the basic units of the scale > > were metric. > > Is this a Mitutoyo one? I have one of these that was purchased in 1993 > and it works quite well except when there's a lot of humidity and you > have to clean the travel surface because it starts to jump numbers > giving ridiculous readings. This also happens when the battery is low. > > I also tried a cheap chinesse one but it's was a disaster. Then I > found these Mitutoyo that are extremely cheap and come from China but > I don't know what to think. > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitutoyo-500-196-20-30-300mm-12-Absolute-Digit >al-Digimatic-Vernier-Caliper-/331999662209?hash=item4d4cb8d081:g:jRQAAO >Sw-CpYAH26
Thats a good price for a 12 incher. But while the length is nice, its also a PITA because there's no place to lay it down that it can't slide off of. Last time it giggled off, it landed face down on another item on the floor and shattered the display glass. I liked the one I got from Grizzly when I stopped at the PA store and bought the G0704. Nice tool, but needs a hangup hook to prevent the giggle off the chip table falls. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
