Tool Maybe Beyond My Skill Set And Needs

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DataMet computerized indicator - MICROTECH

0–12.7 to 0–200 mm | 0.0002 mm Resolution | Analog / Comparator / Digital Scales | 1.8″ Color Touchscreen | Wireless & USB HID | Li-Pol Battery The DataMet computerized indicator is a linear indicator with a Swiss-made reading system of 0.2 μm resolution and a 1.8″ color touchscreen. Ranges run...

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[DavidR8]

Wait, aren't we all working to 2 microns?

 

[BMW Rider]

Just for stuff where accuracy doesn't matter 😛

 

[Tom O]

I went stereo with two Marconi’s

 

[Loosenut]

"Maybe beyond my skill set and needs"​

I bought one of these years ago. Obviously beyond my skills and need but "the wallet wants what the wallet want". They were going for around $700 US at the tine but I got a real deal $278 CDN NEW. The cheap Chinese knock offs cost more than that and were generally crap. Accurate to 0.0005" with the supplied probe and 0.0002" with a different probe. I don't regret it and the wife still doesn't know about it so I'm good.

Universal 3D-Sensor | 1:MT-2:301000-4:301000-5:301005

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[Mega arc 5040dd]

"Maybe beyond my skill set and needs"​

I bought one of these years ago. Obviously beyond my skills and need but "the wallet wants what the wallet want". They were going for around $700 US at the tine but I got a real deal $278 CDN NEW. The cheap Chinese knock offs cost more than that and were generally crap. Accurate to 0.0005" with the supplied probe and 0.0002" with a different probe. I don't regret it and the wife still doesn't know about it so I'm good.

Universal 3D-Sensor | 1:MT-2:301000-4:301000-5:301005

shop.haimer.com

How does a different probe make it more accurate?

 

[TonyK]

Wait, aren't we all working to 2 microns?

What's a micron? If you want me to make a mess of something, just ask me to use metric measurement. Brain does not like it, makes no sense. At 70 I think I am in for the rest of my life using Imperial measurement. Sorry, just no way to change, tried, failed and failed again. Material is expensive just cannot afford it.


TonyK.

Grimsby Ontario Canada.

 

[Loosenut]

How does a different probe make it more accurate?

The "other" probe is much longer so it is probably a trig thing.

At 70 I think I am in for the rest of my life using Imperial measurement.

A big plus1! I to am 70 and I refuse to submit to the metric madness. I was once told by a 20 something, right out of school, that I had to change over even in my home shop, no choice have to do it. Hope he didn't hold his breath waiting.

Once at work many years ago an engineer came to us with a drawing of something he wanted fabricated. It was metric. We promptly told him we don't do metric, were he told us we had to start using it. We laughed and said no. He showed up a week later with the drawing now in Imperial measurement. He got told.

 

[Janger]

phew! I like metric. I'm not always that great using it. And I still largely machine in imperial. but I keep trying. As long as USA stays imperial, and nobody can tell them anything, I think we are stuck living in both worlds. But remember, 95% of the world does not use imperial.