Good review! Just a small addition: On Aliexpress, if goods were dead on arrival or did not meet the specs I never had to return them. I just opened a dispute and added a description, a picture or a video and selected that I do not want to send it back. I always got my money back. Got around 1500 orders over the years.
Was given a Starret Automatic Centre Punch for my bday, she's a true beauty! Thanks for the review AvE, all be quite some time ago!! Fair to say my brother is back on the Christmas card list!!
Thank you for the lichen. Being 71 and I’m about to reach in my hip National Bank. Low and behold I come to you video. I have been looking for someone who could explain to me what to look for. Even though I’m carpentry one must take pride in whatever they do. Or why bother. I enjoy your videos and you’re showmanship is over the top... Bob
I bought one of these (with 1 inch travel) for something like 12€ and converted it into a dial stop for my lathe (with a 3D printed holder with magnets). I'm quite happy with that. The only thing that pisses me off is the auto off "feature" which tends to switch off the thing exactly in the moment I need it (zeroing my calibration). It was just a proof of concept for me and I probably will replace this at some point with a used Mitutoyo (which doesn't power off or loose calibration)
Thank you for using Starrett. My great grandfather made his career there. I grew up down the street from the factory in Athol, MA. Kinda cool seeing them represented by one of my favorite RUclipsrs
6:48 that's why you solder a c battery to the input and hot glue it to the back of the calipers. I have a nice set of calipers for myself but the cheap ones are good to lend out.
"Buy the best tool you can afford." As a middle-aged, mid-life-crisis-er, trying to turn a life of hobby mechanical ability into a profession as an apprentice in a high-end tool room... I think I'll be looking at inexpensive alternatives for the short term future. Thanks, Uncle Humblef*ck! I can always count on you to tell me what's what!
there are some vendors that have agreed on partial repay even if you dont return the "broken" item , you will need to photo and descripe the issues with it tho.. Only lessens the sting of bad deal, but better than the option to pay more than the thing is worth of postal office for returning or not getting anything .
When I learned about the Vernier scale in school the teacher just said "I have to go over this, I hate it, you'll hate it, and God have mercy on you if ever have to actually use it"
I live that scale on my micrometers. Everyone else in the shop has trouble reading them, but they're a quick way to get a reading below .001" However, they need to be crisp. I've seen some...budget oriented...tools were the lines for the scale looked like crayon.
Luckily found a used Mitutoyo digimatic absolute indicator with 2-5 micron resolution for a sixth of the original price a few months back and haven't looked back. If only I could find their calipers as well and finally build an adjustable stand for these.
Fun fluke trick. On most fluke meters you can switch to ohms and use the positive probe to check the ameter fuses. Top part of the connector is the fuse the bottom is the wrong probe noise connection
I noted that the PCB that the quadrature array was printed on was standard FR-4. Or its chinesium equivalant. That stuff moves like a snake. A high quality design would use a ceramic PCB material or even borosilicate "gorilla" glass for its substrate.
I like the digi-caliper I got from a Chinese outfit called Shahe. Paid a little more for it than the cheapest on the market, but it agrees with gauge blocks. Getting one of their mics next.
O. boys still measuring in Imperial, I pity you all. We are in the 21e century. Your satisfy one thou, we one hundredth, and still you are 2.54 les accurat
Wish I could up vote this more. I'll never use the device. But, my God the level of detail going into the analysis... It will save some bastard some time I hope! Nice one ave!
When you said you'd misplaced your gauge blocks and then started unwrapping that gold paper, I thought it was a stick of butter. They say the strongest fear is that of the unknown, but what terrified me were all the thoughts of what you were about to do with it.
It's apparently cold enough he could've stuck it in the clapped-out Bridgeport, milled it out for the vidgeo and then had some hot fare. If it'd been peanut butter however...
When I receive broken parts from aliexpress the sellers are usually pretty good about not having me return the part. They typically just ask for a video of it not working or pictures of the damage and then they refund the money back to my account. Some suppliers are pretty cool but you might not be as lucky.
IF battery life is an issue, just add on of those ultra thin battery separator contacts and when you use it, turn it on, when you don't turn it off. ALTERNATIVELY, make one out of copper tape and paper. Seriously, it's baby level easy. As for reading, i think there might be schmoo in the reader head. Always check them, even on brand ones i found particulates. They are supposed to be so clean you can lick em off.
As per battery life, correct me if im wrong but... LR44 battery typically 150mAh. Thats drawing 21.6 uA so 0.0216mA, giving us a battery life of 289 days? That sounds great to me for the price, we can seem to get that exact one shipped to the UK for £10
It looks like your indicator isn't lined up dead true with the micrometer you're pushing it with. cos-1(397.5/400) would suggest you're 6.4 dungarees off. Assuming the indicator is accurate. *edit* I should have watched to the end. I see you addressed the cos error!
Hey thanks for this! I was looking for one of these I could throw in the box for unimportant stuff. Tough to beat sub $30 and it be reasonably accurate. I'll just keep the battery popped out.
I just wanted to post that my fancy Princess Otter ProPoint digital is thick like the Starett and the Mitu, was a bit of a cheese off when it wouldn't fit a cheap bore gauge... But it's backlit and it's a heavy thing.
In reference to the traces at 2:08. Could it be said the number of traces here per inch correlate to the accuracy of the device in which a greater number would indicate a higher degree of accuracy?
It's always worth checking amazon just because of the returns, if it's say an extra 10 to 20 percent to buy on amazon, it's worth it just to ensure if it's fucked or doesn't turn up, they just send you a new one, had a couple of things when broken that they just send a replacement next day, don't even ask for the old one back
Speaking of lathe DRO, I'm working on using a 6" and 12" cheap digital caliper on my 7x14 lathe for a poor mans DRO! They're a little crusty, but when mounted to a lathe they're not t-bag.
The cheapo digital stuff also forgets where you set it when you power off. The good stuff will display where it was set even if you turn it off then back on again. I don't mind battery drain, but if it goes back to zero when it shuts itself off, that becomes a real annoyance.
I love his digs at people like Wranglerstar. Never fails to make me laugh. I have reported Wranglerstar's pinned comments with his Amazon referrals as unwanted spam.
Hi.. I just wondered if the problem is at Inch/thou display. If you can, check it again in metric mode. It may well be that the Indicator is well calibrated with metric/mm and makes conversion error at the µController?
Higher end digital indicators use optical encoders. Starret makes one that is accurate to .0001" over 4", which is insane. It does cost almost $10,000USD.
I have a pair of those exact mitutoyo calipers. They're coolant proof as well. Fucking good ones, they are. Shittier calipers will crap out when you get coolant on them, which is quite annoying when you're a CNC machinist and your hands are regularly covered in the shit.
how about the analog one at HF thats everywhere silkscreened with other names..i had to sand something ever so slightly to get it to "zero out" it seems nice....
Alright if your actuator and your measuring device are off by a few degrees, you're gonna get a COS error. Your measuror will move less than your input actuator. but what if you reversed roles? what if the measuring device pushed your actuator and it measured its travel. would it be more or less? -- this is a good question, you should think about it.
actually this device compares resistance values vcc along the operational travel between 'hardcoded intervals' which serve two masters as they beguile you into a comfortable assertion of ye old coinpurse as salvageable. we all know that its ajoke but yeah...metroloscopy ...right?
On aliexpress, They have just given me the money and did not have me ship it back. I think that I have seen Thomas Sanladerer give an affiliate link for aliexpress.
“You need two meters, one for voltage and one for current.” Have you seen the Mooshimeter? It has no display. Instead you use a smartphone app via Bluetooth. It has two channels, so you can simultaneously measure voltage and current. Even comes with three probe leads for that very purpose.
On my LG G3 phone, the mooshimeter app has these permissions: Read SD card, modify/delete contents of SD card, pair with bluetooth devices, access bluetooth settings, full network access, and control vibration.
Aliexpress doesn't want items returned as far as I know. They specifically say so & offer only a refund, which I've had twice over the past couple of years
I don´t think the connector for the serial port is populated on the PCB. It looks mighty hollow in there. They probably just use the same case as for the "premium" version
Hey AvE, I buy chinsy crap from Ali all the time, the few times that I've had a dud, I've documented the hell out of the failure, and typically get all my money back on it. I'd say the failure rate is 1/10 or so, and it is fairly hassle free. It probably helps that I've spent over 300-400 dollars through Ali and leave reviews on all the crap I buy, also spent 2000 on Alibaba for some ESP-12E's.
I got a $29 digi caliper (iGAGE EZ CAL AMAZON) and its held up, use it all the time for home tool making with steel. Battery cover is trash but for the price its legit.
hey Boss i took a part one of the wifes used E- cigs to see how it worked kind of cool thing i found was it has a puff counter, a small confusser can it be reset?
Your videos are always f'king entertaining. This drop gauge thing is junk. I do like the chinese-eum digital calipers though, they are usually accurate within .001 and if I accidentally drop the sumbitch, oh well, pull out another one and keep makin chips. I had a manual caliper chinese-eum and the sumbitch lasted 15 yrs, just finally crapped out and that was only due to chip incursion so it started skipping. Took er apart to fix and that went south. So bought a bunch of quality used ones, rebuilt them and now got to many. Oh well, they'l make good toys for the grand kids some day. ~
When are you gonna BOLTR the bicycle "Switch-Kit"? It looks like a badass product! Amticipatig yer scull-fkg that gig. Hey, it might be kool-skoochage!
my answer to battery life on the cheap chinesum measuring crap..... Graft a cheep chinesum AAA battery holder on the back with a little silicone. no more over priced coin cells to buy at Wally world and even with the parisitic drain a AAA lasts years.
Most of them are really good, if you message them. Most of them won't ask for it back unless it real expensive, and will just send a new one, or give you a refund. Just gotta be firm. Gotten plenty of replacements and refunds through aliexpress.
Shit! I'm learning stuff here! I spotted the cosine error but only because This old Tony covered it recently, are you two conspiring to edumacate us amongst all these lols?
I store the batteries for my cheap calipers outside the caliper, but in the case. It even has little slots in the foam for batteries! Rat Shack are out of business but the same crappy Chinese calipers are made and re-branded by plenty of other companies. If I need an accurate reading I use the vernier calipers, digital adds too many sources of error.
I had to make a return (to an amazon seller, not specifically amazon though) one time, because the thing (whatever it was) was DOA. And they told me they could refund it if I shipped it back. And I -bluntly- politely told them that I wouldn't have to ship the thing back if they didn't send me a broken -POS- product, and that -they were going to pay for shipping or else- I expected a refund either way, and they just refunded me. They told me to throw the -junk- item away because they honestly don't care if it's broken or not. If they want to do some -BS- legally binding contract that makes the buyer pay shipping if they get the thing back and it isn't actually broken, fine, but if they send me -shite- broken stuff, it shouldn't be on me. And that whole thing, again, they don't care if it is broken or not. If you shipped it back they would just throw it away, or sell it to another -sucker- customer.
Good review! Just a small addition: On Aliexpress, if goods were dead on arrival or did not meet the specs I never had to return them. I just opened a dispute and added a description, a picture or a video and selected that I do not want to send it back. I always got my money back. Got around 1500 orders over the years.
Got ripped off on some chips, and only ended up with 50% refund. IME if it's over $50 or $100 they get a lot more fussy.
Andrew, you are a Chinesium addict? Cheaper if you go there, then sit on Chinesium mountain.
Was given a Starret Automatic Centre Punch for my bday, she's a true beauty! Thanks for the review AvE, all be quite some time ago!! Fair to say my brother is back on the Christmas card list!!
Which one?
My guess is the errors you are getting from both the starret and the chineesium gauge is due to some flex in the support arm.
And honestly anybody’s who’s only got $30 to spend on an indicator most likely isn’t gonna be terribly worried about 1.5-2 thou.
Greg Napert That's exactly what I was thinking!
@@BoringMinecraftDude yeah but is did better then expected.
Ya i thougt it too, like the chinese dial shaft not colinear with micrometer shaft
Thank you for the lichen. Being 71 and I’m about to reach in my hip National Bank. Low and behold I come to you video. I have been looking for someone who could explain to me what to look for. Even though I’m carpentry one must take pride in whatever they do. Or why bother. I enjoy your videos and you’re showmanship is over the top... Bob
I bought one of these (with 1 inch travel) for something like 12€ and converted it into a dial stop for my lathe (with a 3D printed holder with magnets). I'm quite happy with that. The only thing that pisses me off is the auto off "feature" which tends to switch off the thing exactly in the moment I need it (zeroing my calibration). It was just a proof of concept for me and I probably will replace this at some point with a used Mitutoyo (which doesn't power off or loose calibration)
Thank you for using Starrett. My great grandfather made his career there. I grew up down the street from the factory in Athol, MA. Kinda cool seeing them represented by one of my favorite RUclipsrs
Chineseum gauge blocks? I wouldn't be confident using them to hold paper down...
I wondered why the batteries in my cheap calipers were always dead.
David Wernsing just keep the plastic circle or flip the battery when not in use.
Hi, what is the battery used for this equipment?
When I hear a man talking about cosine error I know I'm on the right channel.
I have exactly the same indicator. I use it for leveling the heatbed of my 3D Printer. It works well for this kind of purpose.
6:48 that's why you solder a c battery to the input and hot glue it to the back of the calipers. I have a nice set of calipers for myself but the cheap ones are good to lend out.
"Buy the best tool you can afford."
As a middle-aged, mid-life-crisis-er, trying to turn a life of hobby mechanical ability into a profession as an apprentice in a high-end tool room... I think I'll be looking at inexpensive alternatives for the short term future.
Thanks, Uncle Humblef*ck! I can always count on you to tell me what's what!
I get such a buzz from watching these videos - I can even follow the speak! Keep up the good work!
Timing is spot on, I was looking at one of these to make a crappy guitar neck relief gauge! Thanks Uncle Bumblefack!
AvE makes the day, now all I need is a little bigclive and day is complete.
Love seeing new videos in my notifications, another great one, AvE!
I subscribed to your channel with in the first 45 seconds. I love the blatant honesty! Great video by the way
there are some vendors that have agreed on partial repay even if you dont return the "broken" item , you will need to photo and descripe the issues with it tho..
Only lessens the sting of bad deal, but better than the option to pay more than the thing is worth of postal office for returning or not getting anything .
When I learned about the Vernier scale in school the teacher just said "I have to go over this, I hate it, you'll hate it, and God have mercy on you if ever have to actually use it"
That doesn't sound so good
I live that scale on my micrometers. Everyone else in the shop has trouble reading them, but they're a quick way to get a reading below .001"
However, they need to be crisp. I've seen some...budget oriented...tools were the lines for the scale looked like crayon.
Luckily found a used Mitutoyo digimatic absolute indicator with 2-5 micron resolution for a sixth of the original price a few months back and haven't looked back. If only I could find their calipers as well and finally build an adjustable stand for these.
Fun fluke trick. On most fluke meters you can switch to ohms and use the positive probe to check the ameter fuses. Top part of the connector is the fuse the bottom is the wrong probe noise connection
Could it be that the 0.0025 discrepancy showing at time-code 11:30 could possibly be due to cosine error?
Never-mind, looks like you addressed it :D
I noted that the PCB that the quadrature array was printed on was standard FR-4. Or its chinesium equivalant. That stuff moves like a snake. A high quality design would use a ceramic PCB material or even borosilicate "gorilla" glass for its substrate.
I like the digi-caliper I got from a Chinese outfit called Shahe. Paid a little more for it than the cheapest on the market, but it agrees with gauge blocks. Getting one of their mics next.
Man....Imperial micrometers
Gorier than a snuff film from the south
At least you got the option to switch!
Well, the more heated it gets, the longer.
O. boys still measuring in Imperial, I pity you all. We are in the 21e century. Your satisfy one thou, we one hundredth, and still you are 2.54 les accurat
Yup, metric is always 25.4 times better than imperial ;)
Jaakko Fagerlund Except in temperature! Fahrenheit is always 1.8x more accurate than Celsius
beatiful video, super nice review, especially the warning about the burnout and the temperature compensation.
Wish I could up vote this more. I'll never use the device. But, my God the level of detail going into the analysis... It will save some bastard some time I hope! Nice one ave!
Would be interesting to see what it is spitting out on the serial port
When you said you'd misplaced your gauge blocks and then started unwrapping that gold paper, I thought it was a stick of butter. They say the strongest fear is that of the unknown, but what terrified me were all the thoughts of what you were about to do with it.
It's apparently cold enough he could've stuck it in the clapped-out Bridgeport, milled it out for the vidgeo and then had some hot fare. If it'd been peanut butter however...
Seems good enough for the girls I go out with.
Cheers Uncle Bumble!
^ How is this comment 6 days old?? Answer me that.
Christian Eckelkamp $2 patrons get access to new videos first then a week later go public
Christian Eckelkamp time machine
I'm a wizard!!
That you are sir.
"Cheese 'n rice. I quit better places than this!" Yes, indeed.
When I receive broken parts from aliexpress the sellers are usually pretty good about not having me return the part. They typically just ask for a video of it not working or pictures of the damage and then they refund the money back to my account.
Some suppliers are pretty cool but you might not be as lucky.
IF battery life is an issue, just add on of those ultra thin battery separator contacts and when you use it, turn it on, when you don't turn it off. ALTERNATIVELY, make one out of copper tape and paper. Seriously, it's baby level easy. As for reading, i think there might be schmoo in the reader head. Always check them, even on brand ones i found particulates. They are supposed to be so clean you can lick em off.
As per battery life, correct me if im wrong but...
LR44 battery typically 150mAh. Thats drawing 21.6 uA so 0.0216mA, giving us a battery life of 289 days? That sounds great to me for the price, we can seem to get that exact one shipped to the UK for £10
Mag base/arm is deflecting a bit when the indicator tip is pushed in?
It looks like your indicator isn't lined up dead true with the micrometer you're pushing it with. cos-1(397.5/400) would suggest you're 6.4 dungarees off. Assuming the indicator is accurate.
*edit* I should have watched to the end. I see you addressed the cos error!
Two meters; one for checkin’ voltage one for double checkin’ ;)
Ahhh. That’s why I remove the battery when I’m not using - learnt that as the thing wouldn’t work between uses. 👍
Would be a cool and cheap substitute for a sensor on a plasma cutter for the touch and go.
USPS or UPS (i forget which site I checked) has a $14 flat rate box for small items up to 4 lbs to china from the US.
Hey thanks for this! I was looking for one of these I could throw in the box for unimportant stuff. Tough to beat sub $30 and it be reasonably accurate. I'll just keep the battery popped out.
Toilet bowl warrior here, thanks for the Vijeo.
My friend is of the oriental variety and he always gets the good stuff for free
I just wanted to post that my fancy Princess Otter ProPoint digital is thick like the Starett and the Mitu, was a bit of a cheese off when it wouldn't fit a cheap bore gauge... But it's backlit and it's a heavy thing.
Zeroing out the michrometer on the wrong line, you did it consistently so your results were fine. Just throwing it in here for future reference.
I have this one, seems to be ok, I just got it for working on my snowmobile and dirt bike, no high precision machining.
The words, the phrases you have on tap is insane , I find myself laughing out loud thank you, Rodney dangerfireld would like you
In reference to the traces at 2:08. Could it be said the number of traces here per inch correlate to the accuracy of the device in which a greater number would indicate a higher degree of accuracy?
@11:37 frank howarth video ending!? 😁😁👍
That Wilhelm joke was one of the smartest jokes I’ve heard in awhile
It's always worth checking amazon just because of the returns, if it's say an extra 10 to 20 percent to buy on amazon, it's worth it just to ensure if it's fucked or doesn't turn up, they just send you a new one, had a couple of things when broken that they just send a replacement next day, don't even ask for the old one back
I've always used the term safety squint..I'm Gunna have to get the shirt in the description
"Fruke to the rescue!" - Run what you brung boys!
Speaking of lathe DRO, I'm working on using a 6" and 12" cheap digital caliper on my 7x14 lathe for a poor mans DRO! They're a little crusty, but when mounted to a lathe they're not t-bag.
The cheapo digital stuff also forgets where you set it when you power off. The good stuff will display where it was set even if you turn it off then back on again. I don't mind battery drain, but if it goes back to zero when it shuts itself off, that becomes a real annoyance.
Curious if it could be made using a strain gauges over capacitors....
You can get link for aliexpress and get 5-8%
Yeah, on some products it's even higher : portals.aliexpress.com
I love his digs at people like Wranglerstar. Never fails to make me laugh. I have reported Wranglerstar's pinned comments with his Amazon referrals as unwanted spam.
Hi.. I just wondered if the problem is at Inch/thou display. If you can, check it again in metric mode. It may well be that the Indicator is well calibrated with metric/mm and makes conversion error at the µController?
Two lessons I knew already, 1; don't buy cheap crap 2; always use lube so your shaft doesn't squeak!
the starrett dial indicator stem is .375" and the import is probably 8mm
Higher end digital indicators use optical encoders. Starret makes one that is accurate to .0001" over 4", which is insane. It does cost almost $10,000USD.
The mitutoyo absolute digimatic do not have brown out either.
digital calipers were called verinears when i worked in engine recons .
'Vernier' means 'vernier scale', which about is the same thing you have on a slide rule. Some people call all calipers "Mauser".
I have a pair of those exact mitutoyo calipers. They're coolant proof as well. Fucking good ones, they are.
Shittier calipers will crap out when you get coolant on them, which is quite annoying when you're a CNC machinist and your hands are regularly covered in the shit.
how about the analog one at HF thats everywhere silkscreened with other names..i had to sand something ever so slightly to get it to "zero out" it seems nice....
Anyone that uses such salty language deserves to be an honorary Australian!
You'd fit right in! 😊
Alright if your actuator and your measuring device are off by a few degrees, you're gonna get a COS error. Your measuror will move less than your input actuator. but what if you reversed roles? what if the measuring device pushed your actuator and it measured its travel. would it be more or less? -- this is a good question, you should think about it.
actually this device compares resistance values vcc along the operational travel between 'hardcoded intervals' which serve two masters as they beguile you into a comfortable assertion of ye old coinpurse as salvageable. we all know that its ajoke but yeah...metroloscopy ...right?
On aliexpress, They have just given me the money and did not have me ship it back. I think that I have seen Thomas Sanladerer give an affiliate link for aliexpress.
Love this review, very thorough. Did you ever try the RS-232 port?
I added an external fuse holder on my meter that takes a flat blade automotive fuse
The arm on the magnetic stand will flex some I think thats why you are a couple of thousands short.
The box is missing the chineseium insect.
Seems good value for $28. Are you sure it's Chinesium and not fake Chinesium?
Is that Cambodisium?
I think you mean Fake ChiNEWsium
ISISium
1:31 but,…. Did it feel good in your hand ?
So would these guesstimeters work on motor couplers?
“You need two meters, one for voltage and one for current.”
Have you seen the Mooshimeter? It has no display. Instead you use a smartphone app via Bluetooth. It has two channels, so you can simultaneously measure voltage and current. Even comes with three probe leads for that very purpose.
Should say I have nothing to do with the maker except I bought one.
Does the app need undue permissions? seems like they always want your contacts or location without reasonable need.
On my LG G3 phone, the mooshimeter app has these permissions: Read SD card, modify/delete contents of SD card, pair with bluetooth devices, access bluetooth settings, full network access, and control vibration.
What the fuck RUclips gave me an ad of a "tool review" channel. You can imagine how "honest and non biased" they are...
My wife loves the small metal thingys in her socks
Aliexpress doesn't want items returned as far as I know. They specifically say so & offer only a refund, which I've had twice over the past couple of years
I don´t think the connector for the serial port is populated on the PCB. It looks mighty hollow in there. They probably just use the same case as for the "premium" version
one question better cheap digital like this or cheap analog ? :/
Could you use it on a CNC machine with the data port?
Hey AvE, I buy chinsy crap from Ali all the time, the few times that I've had a dud, I've documented the hell out of the failure, and typically get all my money back on it. I'd say the failure rate is 1/10 or so, and it is fairly hassle free. It probably helps that I've spent over 300-400 dollars through Ali and leave reviews on all the crap I buy, also spent 2000 on Alibaba for some ESP-12E's.
I got a $29 digi caliper (iGAGE EZ CAL AMAZON) and its held up, use it all the time for home tool making with steel. Battery cover is trash but for the price its legit.
hey Boss i took a part one of the wifes used E- cigs to see how it worked kind of cool thing i found was it has a puff counter, a small confusser can it be reset?
oh ya it a use it one time and toss it kind ,,
Looks just like a Snap on doofer I got of the fool truck a while and I’m still paying ten English pounds a week for haha.
its been my experience that cheap tooling starts out accurate but they wear out super fast
Your videos are always f'king entertaining. This drop gauge thing is junk. I do like the chinese-eum digital calipers though, they are usually accurate within .001 and if I accidentally drop the sumbitch, oh well, pull out another one and keep makin chips.
I had a manual caliper chinese-eum and the sumbitch lasted 15 yrs, just finally crapped out and that was only due to chip incursion so it started skipping. Took er apart to fix and that went south. So bought a bunch of quality used ones, rebuilt them and now got to many. Oh well, they'l make good toys for the grand kids some day.
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When are you gonna BOLTR the bicycle "Switch-Kit"? It looks like a badass product! Amticipatig yer scull-fkg that gig. Hey, it might be kool-skoochage!
Uncle bumblefart SPI make (rebrand) one thats identical.
'nice beaver, nice box'- it's nice doos.
my answer to battery life on the cheap chinesum measuring crap..... Graft a cheep chinesum AAA battery holder on the back with a little silicone. no more over priced coin cells to buy at Wally world and even with the parisitic drain a AAA lasts years.
Or remove the battery when you finish for that day and leave the shop. Next time pop the battery in and off you go
Someone on another video (maybe the caliper video from ave?) said they added an on/off switch to theirs, I like that idea the best.
Just flip the battery after use,
Most of them are really good, if you message them. Most of them won't ask for it back unless it real expensive, and will just send a new one, or give you a refund. Just gotta be firm.
Gotten plenty of replacements and refunds through aliexpress.
do the mitutoyos have temperature compensation??
yes
same outter shell as the pittsburgh dial indicator, inside looks different
Shit! I'm learning stuff here! I spotted the cosine error but only because This old Tony covered it recently, are you two conspiring to edumacate us amongst all these lols?
I store the batteries for my cheap calipers outside the caliper, but in the case. It even has little slots in the foam for batteries! Rat Shack are out of business but the same crappy Chinese calipers are made and re-branded by plenty of other companies. If I need an accurate reading I use the vernier calipers, digital adds too many sources of error.
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BarharborBasher I'm the only one I know of that went there.
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I had to make a return (to an amazon seller, not specifically amazon though) one time, because the thing (whatever it was) was DOA. And they told me they could refund it if I shipped it back. And I -bluntly- politely told them that I wouldn't have to ship the thing back if they didn't send me a broken -POS- product, and that -they were going to pay for shipping or else- I expected a refund either way, and they just refunded me. They told me to throw the -junk- item away because they honestly don't care if it's broken or not. If they want to do some -BS- legally binding contract that makes the buyer pay shipping if they get the thing back and it isn't actually broken, fine, but if they send me -shite- broken stuff, it shouldn't be on me. And that whole thing, again, they don't care if it is broken or not. If you shipped it back they would just throw it away, or sell it to another -sucker- customer.