Quality digital vernier calipers

My Mitutoyo 500-130 is at least 30 years old and going strong I change the batteries every few years. This model has a ON/ZERO button and switches its self off after about a half an hour's of not being used.

David

I have a 6" standard, and a 12" heavy duty Mitutoyo digital, as well as several of the cheap Chinese ones from Lidl.

The Mitutoyos are kept for best, I can measure consistently to 0.001", even bores, which calipers are not particularly good for.

The cheap ones are great value for money, but cannot match the Mits, which doesn't matter for most work. I have noticed that the quality of the Lidl bought ones has dropped in recent years unfortunately.

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Edited By petro1head on 29/07/2019 14:28:18

My update... The Mitutoyo and M&W are both still on their original batteries as far as I can remember.

The Mitutoyo needs the origin resetting every few month or two.

The M&W has started losing its origin when woken up, so maybe the battery is on its way out.

Neil

I have two of the WORKZONE make and apart from one small thing I am quite content with them. The one "small thing" is the flimsy battery cover on the "instruments" which over time on one of them has worn on one edge and fails to lock the battery in position without an unsightly winding of sticky tape.

I performed minor corrective surgery this afternoon using a thin alu strap and ended up so:

I used the hand held pin chuck to drill the plastic case as I suspected there would be circuit/components below the screw holes (2.5mm) and so it turned out to be

Only a piddling job I know but I no longer have to wince at that mess of tape.

Rik

I've just damaged my approx. 5-year-old M&W by dropping it and raising a .003" burr on the slim bit of the fixed jaw. I think it's been OK within its half-thou resolution up to now, but it lost its thumbwheel last year so I'm retiring it - I don't know if I'd ever quite trust a stoned-off burr.