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Don't have digital, don't have dial, do have vernier calipers that are older than old, but never let me down if I can find them. So far they have always been in the last place that I looked.

get a dial caliper, and you will toss those verniers in the weeds. (no need to interpolate) The digital is even easier to use, but expect to buy some batteries. Or remember to pull the battery when you are done using it if you aren't going to use it again in months.

Another advantage to the digital is both metric and imperial measurements at the push of a button. Also you can 'zero" on a measurement and tell how much bigger one object is over another without resorting to calculating it out. The tool will do the calculating for you. AND they are cheap.

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Thanks. I haven't tried a dial caliper, may check them out.

Don't like the tenths of an inch, too used to sixteenths and the fraction readout of 45/128ths is not useful to me. I know how to read 128ths on my vernier, but 64ths is usually as precise as I need.

I can also see metric and inch at the same time and I do that a lot.

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Thanks. I haven't tried a dial caliper, may check them out.

Don't like the tenths of an inch, too used to sixteenths and the fraction readout of 45/128ths is not useful to me. I know how to read 128ths on my vernier, but 64ths is usually as precise as I need.

I can also see metric and inch at the same time and I do that a lot.

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I too like the digital for switching back and forth between inches and metric. Real handy switching it to metric for quick calculations such as dividing by half or????IMG_3015.jpg
 
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You guys really are going for 2000!!!
 
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Thanks. I haven't tried a dial caliper, may check them out.

Don't like the tenths of an inch, too used to sixteenths and the fraction readout of 45/128ths is not useful to me. I know how to read 128ths on my vernier, but 64ths is usually as precise as I need.

I can also see metric and inch at the same time and I do that a lot.

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As cheap as they are, you can afford to get a digital AND a dial caliper. I inherited a couple of verniers, and I don't think much of them. Too much work to figure out where you are.

OH, and 45/128 would just be 22.5 64ths right? or 11.25 32ths. If you want to think of it that way.. Fractions are pretty inprecise way of measuring things. In other words the instrument is capable of so much more accuracy than measuring things in 64ths.
 
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Oh, hey, I know what you can use those verniers for: YOU CAN USE THEM TO UNSCREW THAT STUCK DRAIN PLUG!:shocked:

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Anyone have a venier that a cheater bar will fit on?
 
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Anyone have a venier that a cheater bar will fit on?

Sometimes I think why even bother with this thread. It doesn 't seem like there is any progress. And then there is a post like this that makes me laugh. Some of you guys have a really neat sense of humor.
 

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