Electronic Digital Calipers - recommendation please.

[Randy Bohannon]

As someone else remarked - none of us can tell others how to do it, only how we do it...

Absoultely Mik, if I knew enough to get a decent pair like the one's you have no doubt my view would be different.

[MikB]

Absoultely Mik, if I knew enough to get a decent pair like the one's you have no doubt my view would be different.

Well, I happened to be around in about '76 - '77 when the dial caliper thingys first hit the machine shops. They were the best things since sliced bread for a couple of months, then they started skipping teeth on their gears and everyone went back to Verniers and mics, cursing Mitutoyo (IIRC) under their breath. I'm afraid that soured my view permanently - possibly unfairly.

The fact that people are still buying them suggests things have improved mightily - but you don't forget how to read Verniers and mics and there's very little to go wrong without it being obvious if you know how to use them properly.

I was mistrustful of my first 2 digital calipers; they weren't as good as Vernier and mic and failed after a few months - but I think the M&W ones now represent a mature technology.

So far at any rate...

[Randy Bohannon]

Well, I happened to be around in about '76 - '77 when the dial caliper thingys first hit the machine shops. They were the best things since sliced bread for a couple of months, then they started skipping teeth on their gears and everyone went back to Verniers and mics, cursing Mitutoyo (IIRC) under their breath. I'm afraid that soured my view permanently - possibly unfairly.

The fact that people are still buying them suggests things have improved mightily - but you don't forget how to read Verniers and mics and there's very little to go wrong without it being obvious if you know how to use them properly.

I was mistrustful of my first 2 digital calipers; they weren't as good as Vernier and mic and failed after a few months - but I think the M&W ones now represent a mature technology.

So far at any rate...

The annoying thing is that the pair I had were from Lidl and were about the same price as the M&W ones in that e bay link...

i I have an Imperial reading dial calliper, I might just pick up one of those M&W callipers for "metric work".