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I don't know if it is everywhere in the country or just here in Cincinnati but Harbor Freight is having a 3 day weekend sale and they have their 6 inch digital calipers on sale for 9.99. That's 20.00 off their normal, non-sale price of 29.99. I bought 4 more sets to go with the 10 or so I already have. I've got them all over my shop and in a couple of my cue cases.

Dick
 
My lathe is coming in this week and getting prepared, I bought that exact caliper last night
 
I currently use 6 of these, and a 4" one also. I bought all of them on sale and I also have 3 more in back up. For the money they are great. I have dropped a couple and broke them, and was damn happy that they weren't the $80 + ones, otherwise I think I would have cried. Even with 6, I still have a hard time finding one when I need it, go figure.
Dave
 
Shiftysmooth said:
My lathe is coming in this week and getting prepared, I bought that exact caliper last night
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Buy a few more, you won't regret it. Try finding it when your in the middle of something and can't locate it until after you don't need it :grin:
Dave
 
I bought 15 of these lastnight, An Dave you are right try finding 1 when you need it right then and there. When the job is done you will find aleast 4 or 5 of them lol.. Thanks Dave
 
Thanks for the heads up...

I am waiting on delivery of my new hightower lathe, and when you pointed out the deal on these calipers, I had to buy a few myself. At $10, I won't feel so bad if one ever gets dropped or lost or anything. Are they pretty accurate and reliable for an inexpensive caliper? I guess they must work fairly well if you guys are using them all over your shops?

Thanks,

dakota
 
Really great price. I also found a 60" work bench with great reviews that is knocked down to $139 right now. Thanks for the heads up.
 
Thanks dick for this post, I need at least 3 more , cause when I need one I can never find it. I hope I can still find some today
Regards
 
COUNTERPOINT :
Everytime you pick up your $10 Communist made caliper , say a prayer for the family of the American worker @ Browne&Sharp or Lufkin that is now laid off and can't feed his family . May Karma rise up , and all your Cue customers decide that they can get by with $20 Communist cues , also.
 
rhncue said:
I don't know if it is everywhere in the country or just here in Cincinnati but Harbor Freight is having a 3 day weekend sale and they have their 6 inch digital calipers on sale for 9.99. That's 20.00 off their normal, non-sale price of 29.99. I bought 4 more sets to go with the 10 or so I already have. I've got them all over my shop and in a couple of my cue cases.

Dick
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Dick, have you tested how accurate and consistent these calipers are? I know, you might want to just answer "accurate enough for building cues." But I'm still curious. Do you have anything like a gauge block to test them? How much variation do they show across all 14 sets you have if you measure the same thing with each one? Since you have so many, you're a good person to do an accuracy/consistency test.
 
AtLarge said:
Dick, have you tested how accurate and consistent these calipers are? I know, you might want to just answer "accurate enough for building cues." But I'm still curious. Do you have anything like a gauge block to test them? How much variation do they show across all 14 sets you have if you measure the same thing with each one? Since you have so many, you're a good person to do an accuracy/consistency test.
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THey are accurate enough except for pin installation and final pass ( to get to .002 over final size ) , I think.
But, I don't like them digitals.
 
rhncue said:
I don't know if it is everywhere in the country or just here in Cincinnati but Harbor Freight is having a 3 day weekend sale and they have their 6 inch digital calipers on sale for 9.99. That's 20.00 off their normal, non-sale price of 29.99. I bought 4 more sets to go with the 10 or so I already have. I've got them all over my shop and in a couple of my cue cases.

Dick
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Thanks Dick,

I just ordered 4 of them.

Rick
 
JoeyInCali said:
THey are accurate enough except for pin installation and final pass ( to get to .002 over final size ) , I think.
But, I don't like them digitals.
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Joey is right about accuracy when installing a pin. Very critical!

A precision ground drill rod as a "go fit gage" is great when checking a boring dimension. No parallax error. I am sure the machinist who ground mine did not use a digital caliper when he verified to OD sizing.

Rick
 
McMaster Carr sells gage pins by the singles. I use them for checking multiple openings through out construction and for testing measuring tools.
 
ridinda9 said:
COUNTERPOINT :
Everytime you pick up your $10 Communist made caliper , say a prayer for the family of the American worker @ Browne&Sharp or Lufkin that is now laid off and can't feed his family . May Karma rise up , and all your Cue customers decide that they can get by with $20 Communist cues , also.
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Lufkin stopped making precision measurement tools in 1966 !

Dave
 
Test Gauge

BarenbruggeCues said:
McMaster Carr sells gage pins by the singles. I use them for checking multiple openings through out construction and for testing measuring tools.
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Dave,

Are you sure they sell them as singles. I fond them in sets but no singles.

tp://www.mcmaster.com/#gauge-pins/=8nciz5

I am sure that someone sells them by singles, I will research that.

I only use my custom made ones for the pin install and the A- Joint bores. It would be nice to have some others.

Thanks,

Rick G
 
dial calipers

rhncue said:
I don't know if it is everywhere in the country or just here in Cincinnati but Harbor Freight is having a 3 day weekend sale and they have their 6 inch digital calipers on sale for 9.99. That's 20.00 off their normal, non-sale price of 29.99. I bought 4 more sets to go with the 10 or so I already have. I've got them all over my shop and in a couple of my cue cases.

Dick
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Dick,
I did the same thing....??
lol
Bill
 
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