06-11-2014, 02:34 PM
Welcome jfp!
In many ways I share your passion for Starrett tools as their plant in Athol MA is less than 35 miles from me. I've taken friends/visitors there for tours. Have you ever been?
In some ways, it's a working museum because some tools are still made in the same way as was many years ago. I have dozens (if not over 100) Starrett tools, and the only ones I would never buy again are their digital electronic ones. I've got a couple of dead ones (6" calipers, 0-1" micrometer) to remind me why...spare/repair parts no longer available.
I'll have to get a photo of one tool I have which is marked Starrett, but no other numbers. It's a versatile inside-outside-hermaphrodite caliper that I've never found in any catalogs, though I don't have any book older than a No.28. Perhaps you could identify it.
In many ways I share your passion for Starrett tools as their plant in Athol MA is less than 35 miles from me. I've taken friends/visitors there for tours. Have you ever been?
In some ways, it's a working museum because some tools are still made in the same way as was many years ago. I have dozens (if not over 100) Starrett tools, and the only ones I would never buy again are their digital electronic ones. I've got a couple of dead ones (6" calipers, 0-1" micrometer) to remind me why...spare/repair parts no longer available.
I'll have to get a photo of one tool I have which is marked Starrett, but no other numbers. It's a versatile inside-outside-hermaphrodite caliper that I've never found in any catalogs, though I don't have any book older than a No.28. Perhaps you could identify it.