Thread: Verniers/ calipers what to buy

Hey guys im slowly accumulating all necessary gear to reload myslef rather than at a mates. Theres some cheapo digital verniers for sale on TM, in your opinion would I be wasting my money or should be fine?

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Most of my measuring equipment is Mitutoyo but I have a knock around set of verniers to preserve my good ones. Good quality for the price TESTNTOOLS - Digital Caliper :: ROK Digital Caliper (Vernier) 200mm Large Display and a good outfit to deal with. 24 months warranty.

starett gears ok and reasonable price wise

In my last job where I spent quite a bit of time in the machine shop we had several sets of the cheapo digital vernier calipers - we did have nice expensive Mitutoyo and Starret ones as well but the cheapo ones were fine for general use ...

I bought a $20USD digital vernier from dealxtreme to go alongside my mitutoyo vernier and micrometers. The micrometers come with 25mm, 50mm 75mm and 100mm gauges the dx vernier is spot on and easy to use. So much so I have not used anything else in 3+ years.

Honestly I have had various cheap brands and mititoyo calipers and they all piss you off in one way or another, one of the most frustrating things is batt life or lack there of and the next is loss of zero with rapid adjustment.

For a cheap pair of didgy verniers i highly recommend Kingchrome, they are my home set and truth be told are better than my work set

Cheapos should be fine. Digital are easy to use and getting better priced all the time. In saying that the Starret are good buying as are the Limit branded ones (Teng Tools).

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Cheapos should be fine. Digital are easy to use and getting better priced all the time. In saying that the Starret are good buying as are the Limit branded ones (Teng Tools).

My limit set are hanging on the wall(deliberatly destroyed) with other tools I payed my hard earned cash for and deamed not fit even to sell to even the person I hate most in the world, most of which have been under the 100 tonne press.

Don't bother with digital. The battery is always flat and they are actually slower than manual.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

My limit set are hanging on the wall(deliberatly destroyed) with other tools I payed my hard earned cash for and deamed not fit even to sell to even the person I hate most in the world, most of which have been under the 100 tonne press.

Yeah? I've no Limit verniers but the mic's I have are nice as are the dial gauges. I've mostly Starret and Mitutoyo but have no worries picking up the Limit stuff.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Cheapos should be fine. Digital are easy to use and getting better priced all the time. In saying that the Starret are good buying as are the Limit branded ones (Teng Tools).

One of my 4 DTI is an expensiveStarrett digital. It never gets used. It is the most hopeless thing to use compared to a clockwork dial gauge.
Re an earlier comment, I have never had a Mitutoyo vernier fail the speed test. And that is a test I usually do. I have had a cheap Chink digi mic fail, and a cheap vernier I tried in a hardware shop. And way in the back of my cupboard I have an old Jap vernier - no batteries to worry about when I bought that. Trouble is I now have problems reading the vernier due to piss poor eyesight but it is my go to vernier if I want to mark out steel and I don't get upset using scriber hard up against its jaws. Another very good option is the Starrett vernier with dial indicator - they are very easy to read and no batteries.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

My limit set are hanging on the wall(deliberatly destroyed) with other tools I payed my hard earned cash for and deamed not fit even to sell to even the person I hate most in the world, most of which have been under the 100 tonne press.

Anyway, I didn't know any digital verniers came in 1/4" increments.

have used a few brands, kincrome, insize starret but my personal is a mituyoto but sits in the tool box I mainly use cheapy ones with digital read out so I can switch/convert from metric/imperial. If I need to do any serious tolerance measurement on cases then I use a micrometer

more to the point, buying a vernier but , not knowing how to use it, or knowing why you need one!

I was sick of the battery going flat
Now I take it out everytime store it in the caliper case and reinsert when I use it
Dumb you may think, but it works, I haven't had to replace a battery in over a year

I need a digital
My eyesight is to bad now to bloody read the manual set I have.

I own Digital but never use them...
Mitutoyo every day of the week.