reading a dial caliper

[charlessenf]

I’m reading the dial at 1.9665 which would convert to 49.949mm.

Nah, it hasn't moved past the nine in the picture.

 

[WranglerX]

Is all this to decide whether to use a big hammer or a small hammer.....

 

[5030]

In reality, I prefer a 60 division Vernier because I'm old school and it actually takes some skill to read one.

 

[GeneV]

I'm reading 2.378

Is all this to decide whether to use a big hammer or a small hammer.....

As my Russian employee used to say about a machine shop we used to farm out to, with work that came back out of spec: "their tolerance is +/- train station."

 

[coast40]

I use a caliper so rusty and old that I don't even try the numbers. I just hold the calipers against a known good measuring tape. But I'm in Arkansas, y'all probably expect that from me.

Do you hunt squirrel? My Arky aunt and uncle had a freezer full of squirrel, and a squirrel coat.

 

[ROUSTABOUT]

Do you hunt squirrel? My Arky aunt and uncle had a freezer full of squirrel, and a squirrel coat.

I don't have a squirrel coat. It's a regular thing to see drivers with a few squirrel tails on their radio antennas. I never did. I went in one guy's house, a black fella. He had a pile of squirrel tails waist high in the corner of his living room. I was there buying a 71 Ford pickup body from him for 75 dollars. Good body but it had them big velour electric bucket seats out of a Cadillac screwed to some plywood and plywood screwed to the truck. But, I have a 71 F 250 4x4 so all them parts bodywise fits it. But, I have to pull the engine in my truck because someone put the clutch linkage together all whappy jawed, and pulling engine is best way to straighten things out.

 

[GeneV]

Do you hunt squirrel? My Arky aunt and uncle had a freezer full of squirrel, and a squirrel coat.

And this is why we need emojis for feedback, not just the like button.

 

[andymil]

You think a dial caliper is old school? How about a vernier caliper?

 

[ptsg]

You think a dial caliper is old school? How about a vernier caliper?

Hey, I use one just about everyday. Up to 0.2 mm accuracy, it gets the job done and I don't have to careful to not break the lens on the dial caliper.

 

[turbo36]

All you people who dis metric.

How big is the engine in your car? Odds are, you just used a metric measurement.

How do machinists generally measure? In fractions or decimals? Decimals of course, exactly like the metric system.

How many of you are using a vernier caliper and measuring in fractions? The majority of you said get digital, use decimals, exactly like the metric system.

Get out of the 17th century already. Or trade in your cell phones and go back to tin cans and string.

FYI, I use vernier calipers and measure in fractions, though metric is far, far easier, for the simple matter of going to the store to buy something, it's sold in fractions.

base 10 is base 10, it doesn’t matter if the basic unit is based on the Angstrom unit or the kings arm! I have always worked in decimal inches in the tool and die industry, when we switched to metric it was still base 10 and decimal millimeters. I have never seen a die drawing called out in F’in centimeters! There’s no advantage to the metric system that I can see.

 

[thirdroc17]

base 10 is base 10, it doesn’t matter if the basic unit is based on the Angstrom unit or the kings arm! I have always worked in decimal inches in the tool and die industry, when we switched to metric it was still base 10 and decimal millimeters. I have never seen a die drawing called out in F’in centimeters! There’s no advantage to the metric system that I can see.

Metric is used by all nations of the world but 2. We are not an island, no matter how much some people think we are. You have a choice, stay in the 18th century, or join the 21st. You already stated it would be easy to do.

 

[thirdroc17]

base 10 is base 10, it doesn’t matter if the basic unit is based on the Angstrom unit or the kings arm! I have always worked in decimal inches in the tool and die industry, when we switched to metric it was still base 10 and decimal millimeters. I have never seen a die drawing called out in F’in centimeters! There’s no advantage to the metric system that I can see.

Wait a minute. Why do you still want a king? Why aren't you using fractions? Oh, that's right, precision and ease. So why not use the universal measurement throughout the world? Save yourself, and everyone else, a lot of confusion.

 

[RjCorazza]

My old made in Switzerland caliper is in decimal inches, and something else on the reverse. It's just Sooo hard to read the marks for an older guy!
I agree that life would be simpler if we really went metric like everyone else in the world.
Funny story... One of two times as a child I recognized the absurdity of something in the adult world occurred in elementary school. Math teacher said we had to learn the metric system, because by high school we will have totally adopted it as a nation.

 

[GeneV]

Wait a minute. Why do you still want a king? Why aren't you using fractions? Oh, that's right, precision and ease. So why not use the universal measurement throughout the world? Save yourself, and everyone else, a lot of confusion.

Why didn't she merely sit at the back of the bus, why did he rebel with no cause, what for electrify the guitar...why can't Americans just conform?!!

 

[turbo36]

Wait a minute. Why do you still want a king? Why aren't you using fractions? Oh, that's right, precision and ease. So why not use the universal measurement throughout the world? Save yourself, and everyone else, a lot of confusionis

You’re right I don’t know anything about precision and ease. Except that I am an engineer, I learned the metric system early on. I stared and owned a couple of Tool making and CNC Companies that made me a lot of money. I just don’t worship the metric system as a holy Grail of mistake proofing. I’ve seen plenty of mistakes with metric designs because somebody put the decimal place in the wrong point.

 

[Grumpycat]

Wait a minute. Why do you still want a king? Why aren't you using fractions? Oh, that's right, precision and ease. So why not use the universal measurement throughout the world? Save yourself, and everyone else, a lot of confusion.

There are 2 types of countries:
Those who use the metric system, and
Those who have put a man on the moon.

 

[Agvg]

There are 2 types of countries:
Those who use the metric system, and
Those who have put a man on the moon.

And except for the readout it was calculated in metric, don't think Werner von Braun converted to the US measuring system.

 

[Gord Baker]

I'm with Grumpy. Canadians were bulldozed into metric from Normal. Lieberals. I use both, prefer Imperial which is different from US measure of liquid volume

 

[Gord Baker]

Fahrenheit is much more accurate than Centigrade.

 

[Grumpycat]

Fahrenheit is much more accurate than Centigrade.

Well, it is the same if you use decimal points.