Hey guys im slowly accumulating all necessary gear to reload myslef rather than at a mates. Theres some cheapo digital verniers for sale on TM, in your opinion would I be wasting my money or should be fine?
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Hey guys im slowly accumulating all necessary gear to reload myslef rather than at a mates. Theres some cheapo digital verniers for sale on TM, in your opinion would I be wasting my money or should be fine?
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Most of my measuring equipment is Mitutoyo but I have a knock around set of verniers to preserve my good ones. Good quality for the price TESTNTOOLS - Digital Caliper :: ROK Digital Caliper (Vernier) 200mm Large Display and a good outfit to deal with. 24 months warranty.
starett gears ok and reasonable price wise
In my last job where I spent quite a bit of time in the machine shop we had several sets of the cheapo digital vernier calipers - we did have nice expensive Mitutoyo and Starret ones as well but the cheapo ones were fine for general use ...
I bought a $20USD digital vernier from dealxtreme to go alongside my mitutoyo vernier and micrometers. The micrometers come with 25mm, 50mm 75mm and 100mm gauges the dx vernier is spot on and easy to use. So much so I have not used anything else in 3+ years.
Honestly I have had various cheap brands and mititoyo calipers and they all piss you off in one way or another, one of the most frustrating things is batt life or lack there of and the next is loss of zero with rapid adjustment.
For a cheap pair of didgy verniers i highly recommend Kingchrome, they are my home set and truth be told are better than my work set
Cheapos should be fine. Digital are easy to use and getting better priced all the time. In saying that the Starret are good buying as are the Limit branded ones (Teng Tools).
Don't bother with digital. The battery is always flat and they are actually slower than manual.
One of my 4 DTI is an expensiveStarrett digital. It never gets used. It is the most hopeless thing to use compared to a clockwork dial gauge.
Re an earlier comment, I have never had a Mitutoyo vernier fail the speed test. And that is a test I usually do. I have had a cheap Chink digi mic fail, and a cheap vernier I tried in a hardware shop. And way in the back of my cupboard I have an old Jap vernier - no batteries to worry about when I bought that. Trouble is I now have problems reading the vernier due to piss poor eyesight but it is my go to vernier if I want to mark out steel and I don't get upset using scriber hard up against its jaws. Another very good option is the Starrett vernier with dial indicator - they are very easy to read and no batteries.
have used a few brands, kincrome, insize starret but my personal is a mituyoto but sits in the tool box I mainly use cheapy ones with digital read out so I can switch/convert from metric/imperial. If I need to do any serious tolerance measurement on cases then I use a micrometer
more to the point, buying a vernier but , not knowing how to use it, or knowing why you need one!
I was sick of the battery going flat
Now I take it out everytime store it in the caliper case and reinsert when I use it
Dumb you may think, but it works, I haven't had to replace a battery in over a year
I need a digital
My eyesight is to bad now to bloody read the manual set I have.
I own Digital but never use them...
Mitutoyo every day of the week.
1/4 " ? to fine to be a builder they are within a inch generally if you can find a good one, must be a fridgey tolerance but they dont build anything? :D
The thing that pissed me with the limit was battery life of like 3 hours if I recall correctly. The kingchrome did a couple of years on its first battery and that is with being left on for a month or two a couple of times.
The real good point of a good set of digitals, apart from the failing eyesight bit, is the ability to do be able to do maths on them ie take a measurement, zero them and then measure something else in the batch of items and you can immediately see the difference between the 2 items just measured. My brain is no longer sharp enough to do that with a mechanical vernier.
The pair I currently use at work also give me fractions as one of its modes, which is handy because I am fraction impaired....but it is battery hungry and dangerously close to hanging on the wall.
buy decent ones, dont get shitty cheap ones, i tried to use a cheap pair at work today, apparently, according my verniers the shaft was 49.99, but my bearing was telling me otherwise....
mr mic verified it was actually 50.40. my aim was for 49.99. since i was fitting a 210 bearing. point being dont buy cheap shite expecting maximum performance
Ive been using my neighbours old mitutoyo must be close to 40 years old. I would like one of those. But like all good things there is a distint price variation between its cheap chinese counterpart.(secretly I wanted the consensus to be cheap chinese shit is amazing, but in my heart the thread was probably a dud) Wanting to reload on a budget is tricky. I know there are certain components you cant skimp on was sort of just hoping verniers could be one!
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But of course.
Tho some forget cheap and expensive alike must be adjusted regularly to be accurate and that all that can reasonably be expected of a vernier is .02 mm
My digital vernier is still on the second battery I got with it from dx.com that's 3 years so far. My club has a kingchrome and I checked that against my mic gauges and it was fine also....seems to be lasting well.
doesn't anyone own a ruler any more.
I'm gonna have to look that up.:)
Fuck it all make yourself some GO NOGO gauges and be done with it!:D
only good thing about digital verniers is instant conversions from metric to imperial.
worked in a machine shop for 14 years and only used daily calipers, prefer them.
As a tradesman I have mitutayo and starret, in digital and imperial.
But bought a set of Lyman verniers, for the reloading bench, there pretty good for the $40 i paid.
I recently bought a pair of starrett digital which have been great. Never failed to return to zero (touch wood). They cost about $150 delivered