On Monday 31 October 2016 11:23:38 andy pugh wrote: > 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.
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