Import Height Gauge

[Highpower]

Ed, what is the model number of that height gauge? I'm not seeing anything like it at Enco.

[arvidj]

(08-16-2013, 11:45 PM)Highpower Wrote: Ed, what is the model number of that height gauge? I'm not seeing anything like it at Enco.

It is in the Outlet catalog ... http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INLMPI?PMPAN...&PMPAGE=10 ... DL328-6215,

[Highpower]

Thanks Arvid. I saw that one but the picture in the catalog doesn't look anything like Ed's picture. I hate it when they substitute a different version and don't update the catalogs. The one in the catalog looks closer to my Harbor Freight height gauge. What you see is what you should get IMO.

I was just curious about the manual and was going to look it up online, but it looks like they only provide machine manuals on-line.

[Sunset Machine]

Batteries in these digital wonders can be a problem. I have a $20 caliper that is dead every other time I look at it. A $45 caliper goes for a year, never have to turn it off, always ready when I need it. How does one tell a battery gobbler from a battery miser?

[arvidj]

(08-17-2013, 08:49 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: Batteries in these digital wonders can be a problem. I have a $20 caliper that is dead every other time I look at it. A $45 caliper goes for a year, never have to turn it off, always ready when I need it. How does one tell a battery gobbler from a battery miser?

The one you did not throw in the trash out of frustration is the battery miser.

[stevec]

(08-17-2013, 12:07 PM)arvidj Wrote: The one you did not throw in the trash out of frustration is the battery miser.

With my luck I'd throw the battery miser in the trash .

The first Mitutoyo digi-cal I had turned itself off after a decent length of time. I hate going into the shop the next day and pick up the digi-cal only to find I had left it on the last time I was in the shop.

[ieezitin]

Lads....

I personally am not a fan on electronic digital tooling, not because of accuracy issues but more that they flicker!, i find when i am trying to land a size or measure a size the flicker takes away my concentration, it also introduces an element of doubt.

I do not own a digital height gage but i would buy one just for the zero feature it has, that in my mind is its most redeeming value.

As to using a Vernier scale i always slide over to a table where i have a magnifying glass set up, this way i can concentrate where all the little lines fall on the scale.

There is one type of digital readout out i like but they are not all that common, I have a micrometer that has a set of wheels with numbers on them and it runs round to show the size, much like an old car odometer, it even shows 1/2 thou, beacuse the number shown is halfway to sowing full, its interesting as to when i see the number between its value i count that as a reading but when my electronic digital vernier flickers between the size i discount it as a flaw.

Enjoy your purchase sir.

Anthony.....

[Sunset Machine]

Great. Something else to watch out for. Neither of my digital calipers flicker.

[EdK]

Neither does this height gauge. At least I've not encountered any flicker yet.

Ed

[Mayhem]

My cheap (real cheap) no-name digital calipers flicker but not my Mitutoyo 500.196.20 Digimatic Absolute ones. They have been rock solid.