On Dec 14, 11:24*pm, "Ray Field" wrote:
Have the need for a low cost CMM or equivalent.
The requirement is to measure bagpipe chanter reed blades (made with metal
machinery!). Reeds are of shaped bamboo slips one and one half inches long
by three quarter inches wide and sixty thou thick (that is the envelope
dimensions). Accuracy plus/minus half a thou. Blades are tapered in length
and width, variably.
...
Ray

Gear tooth caliper:
http://www.tresnainstrument.com/meas...ipers_sc21.jpg

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