Bouba
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The thing about digital is that we can read it to two decimals (try doing that with eyes) and you can quickly go from metric to imperial at the touch of a button
My vernier caliper(made in Russia, by the way) has two scales: one metric and the other imperial.The thing about digital is that we can read it to two decimals (try doing that with eyes) and you can quickly go from metric to imperial at the touch of a button
My vernier caliper(made in Russia, by the way) has two scales: one metric and the other imperial.
Really? I threw mine overboard intentionally, just to hear the schlopping sound it made as it disappeared under half a foot of mud... Really made my day. Thankfully the stainless alloy it's made of is juuust magnetic enough to be picked up by a magnet.I try and keep it as far as possible from the sea side.
My favourite vernier caliper has metric (of course) but also has an imperial scale and vernier graduated to 1/128 ths of an inch. Perfect for checking sizes of imperial drill bits and other imperial stuff. I never understood why they were not more common as compared to calipers with imperial in thousandths.So does my Helios, made in Germany. I always struggle with the fractional aspect of imperial though, so prefer to convert to metric before doing any complicated arithmetic. I like the idea of digital calipers which could show you imperial in fractions and decimal (as well as metric, of course), that would be quite useful. Even more useful would be if the last three hold-outs (Myanmar, Liberia and USA) would wake up and smell the metric, and join the 20th century.
Has anyone noticed that some vernier calipers have the imperial scale in decimals of an inch?My favourite vernier caliper has metric (of course) but also has an imperial scale and vernier graduated to 1/128 ths of an inch.
Showing my age. I do realise that the new fangled electronic jobbies do the inches in fractions and decimals, but pre electronics, verniers actually scaled in fractions were not so common at least in my experience.Has anyone noticed that some vernier calipers have the imperial scale in decimals of an inch?