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digital vernier callipers
canny colin:
Looking for recommendations for above , mainly for measuring bearing sizes on bikes ect . Close up vision is not what it was . Are cheaper £15 / £ 25 callipers worth having Thanks colin
Brucey:
the ones from Aldi are very good for the money. They are not super-smooth when they are new but free up with use/fettling. BTW I have owned and used posher ones (e.g. Mitutoyo) and I wouldn't bother with anything like that for bicycle work.
[edit; they are obviously not available all year round but (in last year's version) they do have big numbers in the display, and have a good (battery saving) auto on/off facility.]
cheers
grams:
Get one with a metal body. The black plastic ones are too bendy to measure anything even mildly accurately.
Otherwise they’re all pretty much the same.
T42:
I'm happy with my 9€ eBay calliper, e.g. it measures drill shank diameters to within 0.03 of a mm from the stated value, which is probably inaccurate anyway.
Main issue with such callipers is manufacturing tolerances, which you can judge by seeing how consistently they measure the same thing. I use mine for everything bikish plus luthiery and I've no complaints.
--- Quote from: grams on 20 May, 2019, 09:23:30 am ---Get one with a metal body. The black plastic ones are too bendy to measure anything even mildly accurately.
Otherwise they’re all pretty much the same.
--- End quote ---
Not with a bargepole.
fuaran:
I've got one from Lidl, cost about £9 I think. Works fine for me.
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