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08-14-2021, 02:28 PM
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George, I understand what you are saying, and agree. Some history. My Dad was a journeyman machinist and machine repairman for 40+ years. He could run any machine type in the shop, and even scraped ways true. He taught me how to read micrometers and manual calipers when I was maybe 8 years old. It is second nature for me. When he died, my brother got his old wooden machinist's tool box, but I got all his tools. I got a used steel machinists toolbox to put them all in. Several mics, including a full set of 0-6" mics, depth mics and inside mics, etc.. I am an engineer, and worked on the development, manufacturing and repair of aviation turbine engines for 25+ years until I retired. And yes, I still have an old Atlas lathe in my garage, but don't use it much owing to a bunch of health issues.
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08-14-2021, 03:12 PM
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Yep....TinMan.......
Two old engineers......and we both have old Atlas lathes in the garage. Whoda thunk it??
 To stay on topic.....I do like the cheap($9.99 on sale, less a 20% coupon discount) Harbor Freight digital calipers. Have about four of them. Two of them I made into dedicated COAL gauges......one for 17 caliber rounds, and one for 20 caliber cartridges.....using permanently attached Davidson parts. I even trimmed the "depth" tail, of each caliper, off......so the whole she-bang would fit nicely back into the plastic HF box. One caution though......the HF calipers "eat" batteries pretty quickly. I just remove the batt when stored. But heck......you could also get two batts for 50 cents at HF. As an aside.....for serious work I like my old 6" digital Starretts......they read to a tenth.....although the LCD display is starting to show its age. Kevin Last edited by Kevin Gullette; 08-14-2021 at 05:30 PM. Reason: fix
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08-15-2021, 06:21 AM
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Much the same here except my lathe
is a 13x40 Enco geared job. Don't get out there much over health issues too. Back and knee's. I never did much on a mill. I ran several lathes on the job til the plant shut down. No machinist jobs and had to feed the ol and kids, house payment. Next thing was otr on the long haul trucking. A few years of that and replaced the ol!!
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08-15-2021, 03:08 PM
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For digital I use Canadian Tire Mastercraft calipers, 12 bucks on sale with 2 batteries. Batteries last quite well, and don't need to be removed when not in use. They read to .0001 and they are relatively accurate when compared against my high end Micrometer (not digital). I also have a Starrett dial caliper that reads to .0005. It big advantage, as with the micrometer is they don't need a battery to work.
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