Perhaps the accuracy of the measurement is only to the nearest .0005."
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Perhaps the accuracy of the measurement is only to the nearest .0005."
:D
It could happen. ;D.
LOL ;D :D
Maybe I need to get me one of them there things ;)
I thought he made that up. But they sell them on Amazon for $121.00....................(:Quote:
Originally Posted by Indiana223
Or you can purchase, functionally, the same thing for $19.99 (and put the money you saved aside for ammo, barrel, new rifle...):
http://www.harborfreight.com/6-inch-...:referralID=NA
The problem with the harbor freight calipers is they eat batteries like they are going out of style, and they are not consistently consistent.... I have two from harbor freight, one is always correct, the other is only correct the first time you open it, then you have to close it and re-zero or it measures wrong... same model # just bought at different times.... Both will kill the battery in about a month, even if they are off and not used..... A decent digital caliper will have 1+ year of battery life, even if used on a daily basis, much longer if used infrequently, like for reloading.... Personally, I like a nice dial caliper. Starret, brown and sharp, mititoyo, are what I recommend, but they are spendy... You generally get what you pay for here, but you can get lucky and get a good inexpensive caliper. Start with the jaws closed, open them halfway and them measure a cartridge, close them most of the way, then re-open and measure again, if you cant do that 5 times in a row and always get the EXACT same measurement, they calipers are junk....
This is what I use every day at work http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?P...&PARTPG=INLMPI but like I said, I use the harbor freight jobbies at home, but only because I cannot find my brown and sharp dial calipers.... I think my 2 year old ran off with them somewhere... ???
Hmmm...My experience has been better. Perhaps I have a different model or something. Long battery life (had them over a year with no battery replacement) and consistent measuring. Perhaps good batches and bad batches? However, a good set of dial calipers are wonderful and will also teach you/whoever uses them how to read an analog dial.Quote:
Originally Posted by dacaur
All the best.