Which Vernier caliper?

[winjim]

It's arrived and I'm very excited. Comes in a lovely orange box:

with a nice reassuring message on the soft case:

Lovely and smooth with a nice action, although I'll give it a drop of oil before I use it in anger. Good positive close with no zero error. Here's the business end:

Time to start measuring things...

 

[Tim Hall]

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If you had one of those ^^^^^^ , you would have a reasonable chance of knowing how little.

 

[winjim]

If you had one of those ^^^^^^ , you would have a reasonable chance of knowing how little.

You'd need a torque wrench for that.

 

[C R]

Ooooooh, shiny. Bloody ebay, I still haven't received my cheapo one, now I am really jealous.

 

[winjim]

Ooooooh, shiny

Well no, it's a sort of satin. That's what makes it easy to read.

 

[lutonloony]

I remember as an apprentice causing the Machine shop supervisor to almost have a fit, when having asked to borrow some verniers, he asked metric or imperial, "Its only to undo a big nut I said"

 

[PMarkey]

Bought some new (to me) verniers , the 38" pair might be a bit overkill for bike work

Paul

 

[rrarider]

The Forge Steel model at £4.99 from Screwfix is good enough for my needs.

 

[winjim]

Bought some new (to me) verniers , the 38" pair might be a bit overkill for bike work

Paul

Is that some kind of monster right angled simultaneous width and depth combination type thing? I like it. I'd have no use for it, but I like it.

 

[Venod]

How about one of these, used to use them in the Power Industry for measuring turbine disc diameters

http://www.pitape.co.uk/products.asp

 

[PMarkey]

Is that some kind of monster right angled simultaneous width and depth combination type thing? I like it. I'd have no use for it, but I like it.

You're right about simultaneous width and depth measurement it's a gear tooth vernier and in all honesty it's actually 3 inch by 3 inch the picture just makes it look huge whilst making the 38 inch verniers look comparatively puny

Paul

 

[Proto]

I’ve just bought one of these. Cost as much as a decent motor car. It’s basically a fancy shadowgraph but uses a camera for surface projection. And a computer for recording and analysing data - Radii, PCD’s, position, angles etc. It’s very good. And made in Britain.

http://www.visioneng.com/products/non-contact-measurement/swift-pro-duo-optical-and-video-system

 

[DCBassman]

As someone who used to calibrate the damned things, I bought a cheap digital.