My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
(As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then flash the
display for about a year?)
Anyway, moving the slider very slowly it goes from 0.3995" straight to
1.200",
On Sunday 30 October 2016 19:55:34 you wrote:
> Hello Gene,
>
> If my response takes too long, please do not get impatient, because
> I'm on the other side of the pond. :)
>
> BTW: This is a pure linuxcnc project except the kernel.
> Please download the kernel and the kernel-header with this links
2016-10-31 8:28 GMT-03:00 andy pugh :
> My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
> battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
> (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then flash the
> display for about a year?)
> Anyway, moving the slider ver
On 31 October 2016 at 12:03, Leonardo Marsaglia
wrote:
> Is this a Mitutoyo one?
No, it's this one (the 3" size is actually rather convenient for many
jobs, and fits in smaller spaces)
http://www.machine-dro.co.uk/75mm-3-pocket-digital-calipers.html
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On Monday 31 October 2016 07:28:23 andy pugh wrote:
> My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
> battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
> (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then flash the
> display for about a year?)
> Anyway, moving
On Monday 31 October 2016 08:03:15 Leonardo Marsaglia wrote:
> 2016-10-31 8:28 GMT-03:00 andy pugh :
> > My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
> > battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
> > (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then f
maybe non-machinists/new-machinists could use a list of good tools
maybe a wiki page?
whats your goto tools?
mine
Starret 6" pocket scale decimal inches
Helios vernier ( not even dial ;-)
NSK 1-2-3 mike set with standards
Starret deep mike ( blade type for mold ribs)
Indicol and Noga indicator ho
>
> I also tried a cheap chinesse one but it's was a disaster. Then I found
> these Mitutoyo that are extremely cheap and come from China but I don't
> know what to think.
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Mitutoyo-500-196-20-30-300mm-
> 12-Absolute-Digital-Digimatic-Vernier-Caliper-/331999662209?
> hash
I have a real Mitutoyo and have had intermittent problems recently, it
turned out to be the lower battery contact has a small crater with the
under lying corrosion pushing upwards stopping proper contact
(probably from a leaky battery at some time), a rejig of the spring
contact has fixed it.
Dave
Looks like the ones we buy by the case for our shop. Almost certainly the
battery. They do get flaky when the battery gets low. Buying decent batteries
helps. (you can be pretty sure the ones that came with a cheep one are crap.)
I'll take a good dial caliper over a digital any day. But I w
My Cautionary Tale Of Woe:
I bought a new Mitutoyo micrometer, one of their top of the line coolant
proof models. This was intended to be my "best" handheld measuring
tool. I didn't need it for a long time and the original battery was
dead when I checked it so I replaced the battery with a M
On 31 October 2016 at 13:39, Bruce Layne wrote:
> I now order authentic batteries for digital measuring tools from
> McMaster-Carr.
The difference is between the SR44 and the LR44.
SR44 is Silver oxide and has a higher base voltage, than the
zinc/manganese LR44 and is the one that the digital cal
While we're discussing calipers, I've been pretty happy with the ones from
Accusize. They show large decimal digits plus fractions and I rather like
the yellow display. Not absolute and not IP67 but they feel about as nice as
my Mitutoyo ones. They also have left handed calipers. Accusize is Canadi
I think it's a bit problematic that the battery industry offers
different battery chemistries with similar but different voltages in
identical form factors, but that's not the problem I was describing.
The *REAL* problem is unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who copy
another company's packaging
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 07:28 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
> battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
> (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then flash the
> display for about a year?)
> Anyway, moving
Digital and mechanical calipers each have they're place.
I about came unglued one time I caught a shop worker swinging a dial caliper
like a hatchet, sticking the points into a piece of wood. I've found that
cheap digital calipers hold up better to such abuse. (and are easier on the
wallet w
On 31 October 2016 at 14:44, John Kasunich 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
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 7:08 AM, Ken Strauss
wrote:
> While we're discussing calipers, I've been pretty happy with the ones from
> Accusize. They show large decimal digits plus fractions and I rather like
> the yellow display. Not absolute and not IP67 but they feel about as nice
> as
> my Mituto
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:23 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> 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 ha
They only micrometer that I've bought from them is a 2-3 inside (see
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-3-x0-001-Inside-Micrometer-in-Fitted-Case-Satin-Ch
rome-Finished-EG00-3223-/16152374 ). Perhaps it isn't quite as nice as
my 1-2 Starret or 0.2-1 Mitutoyo but it operates smoothly, is accurate and
muc
On 10/31/2016 06:28 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
> battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
> (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a week then flash the
> display for about a year?)
> Anyway, moving the slider v
On Monday 31 October 2016 11:23:38 andy pugh wrote:
> On 31 October 2016 at 14:44, John Kasunich
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 pla
On Monday 31 October 2016 10:44:33 John Kasunich wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 07:28 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> > My little digital caliper is playing up. It could just be a low
> > battery, it has been flashing the LCD for at least a year.
> > (As an aside, why do they run normally for about a we
On 2016-10-31 03:29, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 30 October 2016 19:55:34 W. Martinjak wrote:
>
>> Hello Gene,
Good Morning Gene,
>> BTW: This is a pure linuxcnc project except the kernel.
>> Please download the kernel and the kernel-header with this links:
>>
>> http://deb.machinekit.io/deb
sent 2nd copy to list
On Monday 31 October 2016 08:39:15 W. Martinjak wrote:
> On 2016-10-31 12:31, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Couldn't get to sleep yet, shoulder too sore. All of the above has
> > been done. And I managed to lockup the lathe sim once, and
> > something that doesn't want to advertis
I tried to buy a new pair from Harbor Freight awhile back and they were just
reading wrong. IIRC jumped around missing large portions of travel.
Went back to exchange and thought to check first- ALL the ones on the shelf
read wrong.
Best results, Neiko calipers seem to be of consistent quali
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 01:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 31 October 2016 10:44:33 John Kasunich wrote:
> > That's why I don't own a digital caliper. Mine all have dials
> >
> > I even have a couple (one at work, one at home) 6" dual-needle dial
> > calipers that read in metric and in
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 02:37 PM, John Kasunich wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 01:15 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 31 October 2016 10:44:33 John Kasunich wrote:
>
> > > That's why I don't own a digital caliper. Mine all have dials
> > >
> > > I even have a couple (one at work, one
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016, at 02:42 PM, John Kasunich wrote:
>
> This picture is under 50K, hopefully nobody minds.
LOL, apparently the list software minds, and stripped it out.
http://www.shars.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/540x/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1/3/0/303-1340b.jpg
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On 10/31/2016 11:23 AM, andy pugh wrote:
> 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.
No miss and no surprise he
Hello Gene,
On 2016-10-31 18:27, W. Martinjak wrote:
> enable_uart=1
> force_turbo=1 #Voids warranty!
> temp_limit=75 #Will throttle to default clock speed if hit.
> gpu_mem=128
and please order something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Addicore-Raspberry-Heatsink-Aluminum-Sinks/dp/B00HPQGTI4
On 10/31/2016 01:50 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
> On 10/31/2016 11:23 AM, andy pugh wrote:
>> 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
>> o
On 31 October 2016 at 22:12, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> What happens when the calipers are in mm mode?
It transitioned at the mm equivalent. (5.08)
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designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and
lunatics."
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On Monday 31 October 2016 18:08:17 W. Martinjak wrote:
> Hello Gene,
>
> On 2016-10-31 18:27, W. Martinjak wrote:
> > enable_uart=1
> > force_turbo=1 #Voids warranty!
> > temp_limit=75 #Will throttle to default clock speed if hit.
> > gpu_mem=128
>
> and please order something like this:
>
> https
On Monday 31 October 2016 18:55:32 W. Martinjak wrote:
> Good Morning Gene,
>
> >> BTW: This is a pure linuxcnc project except the kernel.
> >> Please download the kernel and the kernel-header with this links:
> >>
> >> http://deb.machinekit.io/debian/pool/main/l/linux-rt/linux-image-rp
> >>i2- rt
Drill a tiny hole on the end of the bar. Fits over a small nail.
Thats a good price for a 12 incher. But while the length is nice, its
> also a PITA because there's no place to lay it down that it can't slide
> off of. Last time it giggled off, it landed face down on another item
> on the floo
On Monday 31 October 2016 21:21:32 Chris Albertson wrote:
> Drill a tiny hole on the end of the bar. Fits over a small nail.
>
Chuckle. Heck of a good idea Chris, you should have suggested that about
18 months ago, and it might still be working... ;) OTOH, I didn't post
about it 18 months ago
I'd like to find some left handed digital calipers as low priced as the ones
Harbor Freight sells. They're plenty good enough, especially the latest one
they have which reads in inches, millimeters and inch fractions to 1/128th.
Surprising that left handed calipers aren't as common as the right h
Or how about some company making a digital caliper with a display on both
sides, so it can be read no matter which way around you have to use it to get
at what you need to measure?
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Surveying my system, thinking I can probably program this 7i90HD right on
this machine from its unused parport, I go traipsing into:
/lib/modules/3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64/kernel/drivers/spi, and find I have a
choice of 3:
spi-bitbang.ko spi-butterfly.ko spi-lm70llp.ko
Now, s
On Monday 31 October 2016 22:22:16 Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> I'd like to find some left handed digital calipers as low priced as
> the ones Harbor Freight sells. They're plenty good enough, especially
> the latest one they have which reads in inches, millimeters and inch
> fractions to 1/128th. Surp
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