calipers

[mjmagee67]

I'm tellin ya, it is just easier to push the button...


You will thank me later.

My Sterrett dial calipers have never had a dead battery.

[captn-tin]

Ha. There was a rough spot when I operated the slide. Found a grain of powder in the rack. Cleaned rack - ruffnomore. Zero on dial still .0020 off with the O on the dial at 12oclock, where I like it. Guess I'll make a tool to fix it with. Thanks to all.

[JagerDog]

Ha. There was a rough spot when I operated the slide. Found a grain of powder in the rack. Cleaned rack - ruffnomore. Zero on dial still .0020 off with the O on the dial at 12oclock, where I like it. Guess I'll make a tool to fix it with. Thanks to all.

You mean 0.020"?

[JagerDog]

IBGSHFDFTDCTGIKUT.

In before get some hazard fraught digitals cuz some guy I know uses them.

[stilly]

Don't be stilly, dial calipers don't have cheap buttons.

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Then you should consider upgrading to the more expensive ones.


(pssssst- The more expensive ones have buttons that you can press and magically recalibrate it to 0 again...)

[GovGeek]

Then you should consider upgrading to the more expensive ones.


(pssssst- The more expensive ones have buttons that you can press and magically recalibrate it to 0 again...)

You can keep trying to justify overpriced unreliable calipers if you want. But in the 25+ years experience in machining, my dial calipers have never failed me and I can easily address any hiccups along the way, as demonstrated in my screenshot above.

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[kalapa]

Stilly advises people spend extra money on digital calipers, but then goes and buys Lee junk and makes thread after thread trying to justify it. You like what you like. Cool. But no one asked. [/dick]

[captn-tin]

JagerDog...Yep 0.020

[croue]

I'm tellin ya, it is just easier to push the button...


You will thank me later.

I'm with Stilly. I have a few pair of digital calipers. Other than the battery draining down every 10 years or so they're great!

Feel is all in your head. Both have the same 'feel' for when you should quit squeezing trying to get the right reading. It's just which one you're comfortable with - the visual spinning needle, or that flickering half-digit in the 0.0005" place.

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[GovGeek]

I'm with Stilly. I have a few pair of digital calipers. Other than the battery draining down every 10 years or so they're great!

Feel is all in your head. Both have the same 'feel' for when you should quit squeezing trying to get the right reading. It's just which one you're comfortable with - the visual spinning needle, or that flickering half-digit in the 0.0005" place.

C

I have a pair of expensive digital ones, but they lack analog feel and "full time" indication. My dials ratchet so you can't overtighten and are accurate the whole time. Digital works fine, but dials are superior over DRO.

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[stilly]

Stilly advises people spend extra money on digital calipers, but then goes and buys Lee junk and makes thread after thread trying to justify it. You like what you like. Cool. But no one asked. [/dick]

Yes, thread after thread after thread after thread... This whole forum is FILLED with nothing but my threads upon threads about "Lee junk". Like cork on the water surface of the bog in Krull, my posts fill this forum! Yes, I can BARELY count how many- oh wait. One. One is all I see right now. One is all I see and it seems to be a jubilant post about a Lee Loadmaster... So you are either a packed diaper or...

You must be one of THOSE wretched Dillon owners that is amaroidal over the fact that they fribbled away such a hefty payment for their press that my happiness just inflames you like the Grinch that got so consumed over other people's joy that he tried to devise a plan to steal Christmas...

And no one asked? It looks like the thread was STARTED by someone asking...

But that is okay. BTW, you missed my whole point completely... Oh but I guess nobody is allowed to joke around you in your own ubiety? Well this is the internets good sir, so DEAL WITH IT while I tend to another point of ellipses... [/imbecile]

Now where was I- Oh here I was:

You can keep trying to justify overpriced unreliable calipers if you want. But in the 25+ years experience in machining, my dial calipers have never failed me and I can easily address any hiccups along the way, as demonstrated in my screenshot above.

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Just give in...

http://www.amazon.com/General-Tools-Instruments-147-Extra-Large/dp/B000UCIGCW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459407512&sr=8-1&keywords=general+digital+calipers

Special black tips too for reloders aged 7-50+

[ar15barrels]

in the 25+ years experience in machining, my dial calipers have never failed me

Same here.

I have a pair of expensive digital ones, but they lack analog feel and "full time" indication.
Digital works fine, but dials are superior

This, x10.

[croue]

I have a pair of expensive digital ones, but they lack analog feel and "full time" indication. My dials ratchet so you can't overtighten and are accurate the whole time. Digital works fine, but dials are superior over DRO.

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And tube amps are better than digital because they have that 'warm' sound. Which is really background imperfections you've become accustomed too. I don't buy it is superior.
The ratchet clutch is a nice feature, but that can be had on any caliper or gauge if you want it. Much more common on micrometers where you have a full digit in the ten-thousandths place and the gauge force can give real variability.
But clutches can also drift over time or be manhandled to inaccuracy. If you're reasonably smart and consistent, either dial or digital probably works very well. I'd like to see an R&R study proving otherwise if you really insist dials are superior somehow in what really matters.

And pushing a button to rezero is much easier, if not as mechanically satisfying (I am an engineer, so I get that) as adjusting by popping the gear teeth into place.

[Capybara]

Now I feel guilty that we have had to equip the reloading club with Harbor Freight $12.00 digital calipers, they're all we can afford on a non-profit's budget. Really cheap Chinese junk. That always seems to work, are plenty accurate for hundreds of beginning reloading students, are repeatable and disposable. I think some of you are must be machinists, ex-machinists, engineers, etc. and are caliper snobs. Randall gets a pass because he builds kick *** rifles and any of you who build match ammo get a pass too. But for regular reloading, you don't even begin to need expensive calipers. You may want and like expensive calipers, but you don't need them.

[GovGeek]

And tube amps are better than digital because they have that 'warm' sound. Which is really background imperfections you've become accustomed too. I don't buy it is superior.
The ratchet clutch is a nice feature, but that can be had on any caliper or gauge if you want it. Much more common on micrometers where you have a full digit in the ten-thousandths place and the gauge force can give real variability.
But clutches can also drift over time or be manhandled to inaccuracy. If you're reasonably smart and consistent, either dial or digital probably works very well. I'd like to see an R&R study proving otherwise if you really insist dials are superior somehow in what really matters.

And pushing a button to rezero is much easier, if not as mechanically satisfying (I am an engineer, so I get that) as adjusting by popping the gear teeth into place.

Weird comparison, I'm glad you didn't buy anything for that orthogonal opinion. I play bass and 6-string electric, and I have decades experience in tooling. Anytime high precision matters, it's always a dial. You do the research to prove it wrong, I have experience as my evidence.

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