On Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 8:56:58 AM UTC-8, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:20:20 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 19:20:25 -0800, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:32:52 -0800 (PST), Christopher Tidy
wrote:

Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2015 22:18:47 UTC+1 schrieb Gunner Asch:

Need a 48" one?

Do I need a 48" caliper? No. I'd like one, but the postage and duty would be too steep.

A nice score for someone in California.

Other than Gunner, I don't know anyone who would even want a vernier a
caliper, when dial and digital have been available forever now.
They're much, much easier to read. (Especially for the older eyes most
of us now have.)

The problem with dial calipers that long...is the very long gear track
means the gear running the dial mechanism is being worn out very
fast...keep in mind that the average caliper is 6-8" long..and when
you run that sucker on a gear/track 8x as long...the life span is only
1/8th of the small ones.
Digitals that long are more common as they now..dont have that problem
with wear.

Everything wears out, so that's not a real issue. When a tool or
instrument is worn, it's either repaired or tossed, a new (or newer)
one replacing it. I'd like to hear stories from those here who have
built new racks for their dial calipers, please.
(certainly not holding my breath for this one


Hence..verniers generally are "primitive". I actually didnt know how
to read one until last year...when my buddy who actually makes BIG
stuff showed me. He was surprised I didnt know how..but when we
discussed I only have done "small" stuff...he understood.

I wonder if reading verniers was one of the tidbits the stroke took
from you, and you had actually known it decades ago, but it got lost.


I brought in a swiss machine screw guy to introduce them to each other
and it was a blast listening to the conversation. Opposite sides of
the spectrum. One guy working in nothing but tenths..the other guy
working in feet...

That sounds exactly like the conversation Glenn and I had when I built
the metal superstructure for the Green Monster. I was used to
thinking in sixteenths, for wood, and he worked in thou or tenths, for
metal. I had to "retrain me brain" for it.

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of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, That we
hereby declare that we are unalterably opposed to any program
which would entail the surrender of any part of the sovereignty
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--Veterans of Foreign Wars


Years of drinking like a fish wore what little you have for a brain out. It's truly amazing how little you have learned about machining over the many years you have spent here, Jackass. Maybe it's time to try something else because you don't have what it takes and you never will.