Seems to me the design would benefit by not bothering to include numerical marks for tenths of an inch and requiring you to count the number of exposed graduations in the exact same way you have to count between .010" and .020" to find .01x". This is also (I believe) how most if not all metric dial calipers would be set-up (not being a metric snob, I swap between both).
Metric wins in almost every way. The tenths need to be there for a quick reference. If they were not, you’d have to count the dial every time it went around. For something like 1.1 that’s easy, but 1.8 it would be super annoying for and introduce a lot of error.
So put the belt or whatever you want to measure between the “jaws.” Close them and look at the blade to get you first set of numbers and the dial for the second. It doesn’t matter what orientation the dial is in, just read where it’s pointing to. I’ll be happy to make a short or something like that if you would like.
Seems to me the design would benefit by not bothering to include numerical marks for tenths of an inch and requiring you to count the number of exposed graduations in the exact same way you have to count between .010" and .020" to find .01x". This is also (I believe) how most if not all metric dial calipers would be set-up (not being a metric snob, I swap between both).
Metric wins in almost every way. The tenths need to be there for a quick reference. If they were not, you’d have to count the dial every time it went around. For something like 1.1 that’s easy, but 1.8 it would be super annoying for and introduce a lot of error.
thank you!
You are most welcome!
This wasn’t helpful to me sorry. I need to measure a piece of leather (say a belt) need to know how thick it is in mm. How do I do that?
So put the belt or whatever you want to measure between the “jaws.” Close them and look at the blade to get you first set of numbers and the dial for the second. It doesn’t matter what orientation the dial is in, just read where it’s pointing to. I’ll be happy to make a short or something like that if you would like.
Conert it or get calipers that rear mm
Yes, but what people want to know is how to reset the pointer to make it rest at 12 oclock when the caliper is at zero!
It doesn’t need to be at 12. Just rotate the dial so that it lines up with where the pointer is at when it’s fully closed.