On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:39:25 GMT, Jim Weisgram
wrote:

On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 09:19:01 -0500, Hitch wrote:

Got a bit of birthday money and one thing I'd like is a dial indicator.
Lee Valley has one for $32 for indicator AND magnetic base. They say it's
accurate to 0.0005". Is this really a good deal, or is $32 bucks US just
too cheap for reasonable quality? Maybe I should just buy more clamps from
LV and look elsewhere for a better dial indicator.

Got mine from somewhere like Highland Hardware. It displays both
decimal and fractions of an inch. Ya gotta like that.

Mine's from an old physics lab I used to work in. It measures in
microns. I could use the binocular microscope I borrow now and then,
with a bit of interpolation for even more accuracy, but decided enuf
is enuf.