01-23-2014, 09:38 AM
Oh come on now, I wouldn't do that!
Perhaps I mentioned that turning them off would lose an incremental setting if you were using one. That's one of the best features that the Mitutoyo (and most other) digital calipers have is their "Absolute" encoder.
That's the nice thing about digital electronic calipers. Say you want the center distance between to of the same size holes. Open the caliper inside one of the holes to make a measurement, zero it out right there. Now take an internal measurement from one hole to the other and the hole diameter is already compensated. You get a direct reading for center distance.
I love those things and they are my everyday go-to measuring tool. I just wish that Mitutoyo made them in a [b]9 inch[/I] (or 450mm) size like my Starrett ones. For now, the 9" No.723 and the No.753 6" depth gauge are the only working Starrett digital electronic tools I have. I love those 9" ones because you wouldn't believe how often that extra inch of travel has come in handy. The other feature of the 9" calipers is that Starrett actually did what I think is brilliant. Instead of making the blades of the calipers proportionally longer as Mitutoyo and others do as they go from their 6" to their 8", the Starrett 9" has the same length blades as the 6" tools.
I've never seemed to need the longer blades, the tool as it stands is lighter and easier to store or handle.
Perhaps I mentioned that turning them off would lose an incremental setting if you were using one. That's one of the best features that the Mitutoyo (and most other) digital calipers have is their "Absolute" encoder.
That's the nice thing about digital electronic calipers. Say you want the center distance between to of the same size holes. Open the caliper inside one of the holes to make a measurement, zero it out right there. Now take an internal measurement from one hole to the other and the hole diameter is already compensated. You get a direct reading for center distance.
I love those things and they are my everyday go-to measuring tool. I just wish that Mitutoyo made them in a [b]9 inch[/I] (or 450mm) size like my Starrett ones. For now, the 9" No.723 and the No.753 6" depth gauge are the only working Starrett digital electronic tools I have. I love those 9" ones because you wouldn't believe how often that extra inch of travel has come in handy. The other feature of the 9" calipers is that Starrett actually did what I think is brilliant. Instead of making the blades of the calipers proportionally longer as Mitutoyo and others do as they go from their 6" to their 8", the Starrett 9" has the same length blades as the 6" tools.
I've never seemed to need the longer blades, the tool as it stands is lighter and easier to store or handle.