03-28-2018, 09:14 PM
I don't know about German micrometers but I do have a couple of German drill chucks. I keep them on a red velvet pillow if that tells you anything. 
I thought about buying a Chinese/Taiwan set of block many times over the years but just couldn't bring myself to do it. I keep hearing they are just fine for most home shops where they aren't going to see every day use in inspecting space shuttle parts. But after the last set of Chinese 1-2-3 blocks that I got from a supplier turned out to be butter soft and looked to have been finished with a hand file, the word 'precision' did not immediately come to mind. I don't think my cobbled together set of Webber gages will work out to cost me any more than a new set of the current crop of import gage sets. But I have much more faith in their being properly hardened and finished more closely to size.
I also finally got myself a sine bar now that I will have some gage blocks to work with. While I love the little electronic level/protractor I have been using, it's only accurate to within 6 minutes of angle according to the specs. I can do better than that now using the old school technology. Go figure.
I thought about buying a Chinese/Taiwan set of block many times over the years but just couldn't bring myself to do it. I keep hearing they are just fine for most home shops where they aren't going to see every day use in inspecting space shuttle parts. But after the last set of Chinese 1-2-3 blocks that I got from a supplier turned out to be butter soft and looked to have been finished with a hand file, the word 'precision' did not immediately come to mind. I don't think my cobbled together set of Webber gages will work out to cost me any more than a new set of the current crop of import gage sets. But I have much more faith in their being properly hardened and finished more closely to size.
I also finally got myself a sine bar now that I will have some gage blocks to work with. While I love the little electronic level/protractor I have been using, it's only accurate to within 6 minutes of angle according to the specs. I can do better than that now using the old school technology. Go figure.
Willie