Something inside my all-plastic Harbor Freight digital calipers broke and now there's a lot of play between the jaws aka it's useless.
What is the best in-between digital calipers that are better than the chinashit Harbor Freight variety and stupid expensive Mitutoyo/Starrett/etc calipers?? Something very high quality, steel, and guaranteed accurate for $40-60?
>>909263
>guaranteed accurate for $40-60
none
the stainless harbor freight ones are fine for $10. take them apart and wash out all the grit and garbage, lube, reassemble. they only get grossly inaccurate when the batteries are dying. buy a stack of fresh maxells off ebay.
You can buy a mitutoyo like in your pic used for ~$50.
>>909284
Pic related. $200 solar calipers not even a year old vs a 10+ year old one I got recently for $50 or something used.
>>909263
Buy a set of Igaging calipers on amazon.
Apparently they are the same as the mitutoyo knock offs, which are decent.
>>909287
buy a Mitutoyo for $40-60
IIRC, you can get Fowler ones for around that price. I haven't used their digitals, but their dial calipers and mics seem pretty good.
>>909263
just get the mitutoyos, they outlast the cheapo brands by atleast a decade
Mitutoyo is master race. I got a 200mm solar powered one. It was sorted out at work due to calibration issues. I analyzed what was up, slid it all the way back, and put the scale in a vise. Gave the fixed jaw slight hits with a rubber hammer until the outside jaws were perfectly parallel again. Did the same with the inside jaws. It sounds crude and like nothing a sophisticated person would do, but it actually works very well. I have a 10.00mm shaft that fits precisley into a 10.00mm bearing, and now my caliper shows 10.00mm as well for the shaft as for the inner race of that bearing.
>mfw I own the best caliper of the whole company
> the workshop guys marvel at it when I bring it to work, of course only for private work
>€0 paid
>>909263
>all-plastic
>calipers
So like do they adjust for temperature or can you only ever use them in one temp?
>>909995
Every 100 degrees F steel expands 1 thou. Sooo your whole "plastic expands with temperature, plastic is so horrible!" argument is invaild.
>>910015
What/where are you measuring that's more than 100F above calibrated room temp?
What are you measuring that requires < +/- .001 inch tolerances at that temperature?
Why are you not also taking into consideration the thermal expansion of the piece you're working on, because you're much more likely to find yourself measuring a hot piece of work than you are to find yourself measuring something in a room where the ambient temperature matters that much.
Why not just get a set of mics?
Graf's and Sons makes a stellar one for the money.
Designed for the cheap ass reloader.
>>909263
Here you go.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-Mitutoyo-500-196-20-30-150mm-6-Absolute-Digital-Digimatic-Vernier-Caliper-/181864273684?hash=item2a57f49714:g:78gAAOSw9r1V8UA9
Might be a chinese counterfeit, but for $30 it's still a bargain.
>>910015
Let's see how far you get with some PVC calipers.
>>909284
this, also seconding Fowlers
>>910020
I like you
>>909289
Ayyy
Get a good vernier caliper off Ebay. They're cheap, accurate, and there's nothing to fail.
>>910068
>being rich enough to buy pittsburgh tools
My $2.50 calipers I bought at Aldis. They were $10 but I nabbed them on clearance. Wont have the repeatability of an NIST certified set, but if you needed that sort of accuracy you wouldnt be looking for cheap calipers.
