Thread: Verniers/ calipers what to buy

Originally Posted by kiwijames

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

1/4 " ? to fine to be a builder they are within a inch generally if you can find a good one, must be a fridgey tolerance but they dont build anything?

The thing that pissed me with the limit was battery life of like 3 hours if I recall correctly. The kingchrome did a couple of years on its first battery and that is with being left on for a month or two a couple of times.

Originally Posted by scoped

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!

The real good point of a good set of digitals, apart from the failing eyesight bit, is the ability to do be able to do maths on them ie take a measurement, zero them and then measure something else in the batch of items and you can immediately see the difference between the 2 items just measured. My brain is no longer sharp enough to do that with a mechanical vernier.

The pair I currently use at work also give me fractions as one of its modes, which is handy because I am fraction impaired....but it is battery hungry and dangerously close to hanging on the wall.

buy decent ones, dont get shitty cheap ones, i tried to use a cheap pair at work today, apparently, according my verniers the shaft was 49.99, but my bearing was telling me otherwise....

Originally Posted by silentscope

buy decent ones, dont get shitty cheap ones, i tried to use a cheap pair at work today, apparently, according my verniers the shaft was 49.99, but my bearing was telling me otherwise....

Then use a mic and measure at various points

mr mic verified it was actually 50.40. my aim was for 49.99. since i was fitting a 210 bearing. point being dont buy cheap shite expecting maximum performance

Ive been using my neighbours old mitutoyo must be close to 40 years old. I would like one of those. But like all good things there is a distint price variation between its cheap chinese counterpart.(secretly I wanted the consensus to be cheap chinese shit is amazing, but in my heart the thread was probably a dud) Wanting to reload on a budget is tricky. I know there are certain components you cant skimp on was sort of just hoping verniers could be one!

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But of course.
Tho some forget cheap and expensive alike must be adjusted regularly to be accurate and that all that can reasonably be expected of a vernier is .02 mm

My digital vernier is still on the second battery I got with it from dx.com that's 3 years so far. My club has a kingchrome and I checked that against my mic gauges and it was fine also....seems to be lasting well.

Originally Posted by deepsouthaussie

Ive been using my neighbours old mitutoyo must be close to 40 years old. I would like one of those. But like all good things there is a distint price variation between its cheap chinese counterpart.(secretly I wanted the consensus to be cheap chinese shit is amazing, but in my heart the thread was probably a dud) Wanting to reload on a budget is tricky. I know there are certain components you cant skimp on was sort of just hoping verniers could be one!

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For reloading buy a kingchrome set and be happy ever after.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

The pair I currently use at work also give me fractions as one of its modes, which is handy because I am fraction impaired....but it is battery hungry and dangerously close to hanging on the wall.

Yes. I saw some of those. They're cool. I hate imperial.

I have replaced the battery in my Mitutoyo's about twice in the last 10 years. They last forever.

doesn't anyone own a ruler any more.

Originally Posted by jakewire

doesn't anyone own a ruler any more.

No....... but I average 3-4 toledo Rules a year.

I'm gonna have to look that up.

Fuck it all make yourself some GO NOGO gauges and be done with it!