Thread: Ebay Quill Kits
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Neil
 
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I bought one of those for use as a cross-slide readout on my lathe.
Works OK, but....

If I ever get water based coolant on the thing, it stops reading for
about a day while it dries out. Not good.


Neil

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:24:46 -0500, Richard J Kinch
wrote:

Ned Simmons writes:

I can't justify the $180 the Mitutoyo version sells for,
but would spring for $35 if it's not a total POS.


Given the passable quality of the $20 import digital calipers, it seems
believable.