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On Friday, 8 April 2016 09:44:34 UTC+1, michael adams wrote:
tabbypurr wrote in message

Digital are quicker to use and easier to read.

- but shorter lived & more cost.

They're still a whole lot cheaper than were precison metal vernier
calipers and are no more vulnerable than they were. In fact

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Metric-Outsi...ilpage_o07_s00

That's a micrometer.


less so as there's less to actually damage. The finely tapered
jaws and ease of use are very handy for measuring things
like the body diameter,

See above:re lack of tapered jaws, depth bar whatever its called,
etc. etc.

as well as the the thread diameter of
screws. Which simply involved too much faffing around before.

does it?

You're sounding increasingly like Wodney.

Asking one or two word questions hoping no doubt to
elicit a fulsome response.

The mark of the t...., if ever there was one.


michael adams

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