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Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:07 am**

Ive just bought a set of them anyway, because i have lost my pair and the only way to find them again is to purchase a replacement pair!

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:56 pm**

Marki are yours anything like this?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=011
I'm tempted.

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:16 pm**

No thats not them they are the same as this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... osi_widget

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 8:50 pm**

£4?! Got one here that a mate borrowed from work some time ago (about 10 yrs...) and it cost £140 at the time!

Posted: **Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:01 pm**

Ooh that's nice Marki! Thanks for the link.

Posted: **Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:48 am**

Eliot wrote: Lets be clear, vernier calipers are not for checking engine internals (crank journals, pistons, bores etc) - only Micrometers can do that properly.

I'll agree, to a point. I've been using Vernier calipers for close to 35 years,
and back in the day when it was my only precision measuring tool, I learned
how measure crank journal bores, cam bores, pistons, cylinders and just
about everything else with that one tool...

Oh, it happens to be a Starrett 12" Vernier...

Posted: **Tue Dec 18, 2007 3:02 pm**

My verniers turned up, tried them against 10mm, 30mm and 150mm percision ground engineering slips and they were dead on.

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:07 pm**

Eliot wrote:My verniers turned up, tried them against 10mm, 30mm and 150mm percision ground engineering slips and they were dead on.

As with most precision tools, knowing how to use them correctly is the secret.

I remember back in the day I could tap a job true in a 3 jaw chuck to a thousandth of an inch, just by eye, then verify it with a DTI. Nowadays I'm lucky if I can find the lathe without my bifocals on

Posted: **Sat Dec 22, 2007 12:26 pm**

Paul B wrote:
Eliot wrote:My verniers turned up, tried them against 10mm, 30mm and 150mm percision ground engineering slips and they were dead on.
As with most precision tools, knowing how to use them correctly is the secret.

I remember back in the day I could tap a job true in a 3 jaw chuck to a thousandth of an inch, just by eye, then verify it with a DTI. Nowadays I'm lucky if I can find the lathe without my bifocals on

Is that not the truth!!!!! Fookin glasses!!!!

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