"Gunner Asch" wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:43:54 -0500, Ignoramus24410
wrote:

On 2008-09-29, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:34:51 -0500, Ignoramus24410
wrote:

My Mitutoyo Digimatic caliper is refusing to work and says "Err 05".
Would anyone have any idea what this may mean?


Ayup..it cant read the scale any longer.

Its the equivelent of the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death.

Ive got 4 Mitys in the junk box that all have that error.

Means the circuit board is toast and it costs almost $60 for Mity to
replace it, based on 2 estimates from Mity in Los Angeles


Too bad.

Are the "new mitutoyo calipers" sold on ebay, counterfeit?


No idea. It should be noted that even the Chicom imports are just as
accurate as the Mits in the vast majority of cases. They simply just
dont last as long oftentimes.

Yeah..Ive got drawers filled with Miti, NSK, Fowler, Federal and so
forth. And use decent cheap chicom stuff for most of the dirty nasty
jobs, like leaving them laying on the carraige of the lathe while
cutting chips, with flood coolant.


"Obama, raises taxes and kills babies. Sarah Palin - raises babies
and kills taxes." Pyotr Flipivich


Gunner, not to dispute your death certificates, but I have resurrected a
gang on Mitutoyo (and other electronic) calipers, that "die". and I
havefound that a number of them gave up because of damage, chips, small
specks of dirt, swarf, attached to the reader, though the scale in the beam
remained ok.

Repair involved full disassembly, cleaning the pickup thoroughly.


Flash

(Formerly Tool & Gage Supervisor in a LARGE foundry/machine-shop kinda
company)