On 31 October 2016 at 14:44, John Kasunich <jmkasun...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > That's why I don't own a digital caliper. Mine all have dials (except the > 36" Starrett vernier) and I've never had a dead battery in 17 years.
There are games that you can play with the resettable zero and dual units of a digital that you can't with a dial caliper. For example, if making metric parts on an imperial lathe: Set the caliper to the metric size, zero it, switch to imperial. You now have an automatic calculation of how many thou above or below the nominal size you are, with no need for any mental arithmetic. Anyway, the point of my initial email seems to have rather been missed: It appears that the calipers are internaly imperial rather than metric, because the measurement was breaking down on exact tenths of inches readings. A new battery has restored the caliper to function, but what I was remarking on was that the exact failure mode told me something interesting. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1916 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
