No wonder I have trust issues!

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bootleg Mitutoyo degital calipers

You can tell by the spelling too

 

[oxoman]

An old engineer treated digital verniers as quote electronic guessing sticks and relied on his trusty micrometer. Personally I use a proper calibrated mititoyu vernier. Near enough for an industrial sparky.

 

[Dadam]

A bit OT, but on T at the same time..It often occured to me after all my working life in engineering, maintenance and a substantial part if it in the tools...while I used vernier frequently, I never learned...or needed to use them beyond 0.5mm increments. It occasionally bugged me...but managed quite well without it.

I've worked all my career in IT, so it does seems surprising to me that someone working in engineering wouldn't use one to its fullest. We were taught about vernier scales and used vernier calipers in physics at school so I kind of took it for granted.
For me measuring stuff has just been for hobbies, but I've frequently measured down to 0.1 or smaller.

 

[Proto]

Known at my place of work as ‘Very Near’ callipers. if you need an accurate measurement use a micrometer. As mentioned earlier, the only decent calliper, Mitutoyo. I did have a nice Tesa digital calliper but it ‘disappeared’.

 

[Proto]

If you are using an inaccurate measuring device it only matters if you give the measurement to someone else. If you pay £14 for a caliper it is likely to be as accurate as a tape. Many years ago we used to have slip gauges (iirc) for checking accuracy of tools for machining.

Good quality slips are objects of beauty!