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RE: Measuring tool recommendations?

To: "Shop Talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Measuring tool recommendations?
From: "David C." <cavanadd@verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:04:55 -0800
At 08:58 AM  11/14/2006  -0800, Randall wrote:

> > I would assume anything from Starrett, but that's probably the upper
> > limit of the price range.
>
>Way too much for my pocketbook !  I just buy cheap dial indicators, then throw
>them away when something goes wrong.  That way I can keep one at the 
>lathe, and
>one at the workbench, and one in the roll-away, etc.


Yeah, what Randall and others said.  I've been doing amateur machine work 
for ten or fifteen years and I have a good Mitutoyo 0-1" mike I almost 
never use, and a number of Harbor Freight/Enco digital calipers I use all 
the time.  One by the lathe, one on the reloading bench, a spare somewhere 
else.  I have used dial type calipers and they are pretty fragile and can 
get junk in the rack; I have had some pretty expensive ones crap out on 
me.  I have a couple of Chinese dial calipers that still work fine, 
although my eyes prefer digital.  I've also had good luck with cheap $12 HF 
dial indicators; the trick is to take care of them, don't drop them or beat 
them up and store them properly, but if you do bust one you're out next to 
nothing.

DaveC




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