[Shop-talk] Micrometers

[Karl Vacek]

A printed circuit sounds great - guess I'll look at them soon.

The fine rack on dial calipers seems to attract all sorts of stuff and with 
teeth that fine most anything semi-hard has a good chance of jamming the 
rack and hurting a tooth.  Not that I've ever done that.  Thankfully it was 
only a Mitutoyo and not my Starrett...

Karl




> But they can skip.  My old instructor kept one in his toolbox.  It was 
> smack on when used to measure a 1" block and off when used on a 2" block. 
> He insisted on vernier calipers.
>
> I'd go straight from a vernier to an electronic (skipping over the 
> dial-type) if I was in the trade.
>
> Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA