Bragging rights…… cause sometimes that seems real important around here…!!By the way, what does a $700 digital get you?
A very expensive set of calipers is generally NOT needed for reloading. What is important is accuracy to 0.001" and also repeatability. The cheap box store chinesium calipers won't be as accurate as better quality calipers.Bragging rights…… cause sometimes that seems real important around here…!!
Silly me, I just figured that out......Reading is fundamental.Those are nice but not digital.
Dial and digital calipers are not Vernier calipers.For vernier calipers, I have two Mitutoyo digitals and a dial, and a couple cheap, imported digitals which I keep mounted to anvils and bushing arbors for headspace and BTO kits - and now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I have an RCBS dial kicking around somewhere... I almost exclusively reach for the digital Mit's, I can't recall the last time I even had the dial Mit's out, and I wouldn't use the imported/cheap branded versions (seems like I have a Hornady set and a Lyman, and they're identical other than the label) for anything of any importance, ever.
I have the same calipers (minus the mic), though mine are not in nearly as nice of condition as yours. They were my first set, bought used off eBay (back when eBay was new) to get me through undergraduate engineering school. They have some accuracy issues now and thus get used in dangerous placed for calipers to be (near the anvil, around the welder etc).
Never ever say never!! Worst kinda bad, bad luck!!I buy batteries in bulk. Never run out.
Digital is for sissies!!I use mics sometimes also. They're not digital either.
Why doesn't Brand X just put a switch on theirs? I mean a real switch with contacts not touching when off; the bump buttons are obviously not cutting completely off.
Completely understand about measuring to the tenths….A very expensive set of calipers is generally NOT needed for reloading. What is important is accuracy to 0.001" and also repeatability. The cheap box store chinesium calipers won't be as accurate as better quality calipers.
And some of us are machinists or tool and die makers by trade where we are measuring to the 0.0001" versus 0.001". So we will spend good money for quality precision measuring tools.
This ^^^^^And just because a caliper reads correctly in one spot, doesn't mean it reads correctly up and down the scale.
I agree.this is a reloading forum and measuring to 4 places right of the decimal is not required…
more economical set that is checked against a known will suffice for our reloading needs…
How many emergency situations occur where a dead battery in a caliper is a problem?