On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 07:28 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> 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"

That's why I don't own a digital caliper.  Mine all have dials (except the
36" Starrett vernier) and I've never had a dead battery in 17 years.

I even have a couple (one at work, one at home) 6" dual-needle dial 
calipers that read in metric and inches.

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  John Kasunich
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