Machinist Calc Pro

[TOM REED]

Here we go again too much time at home, I have been thinking about if I am smart enough to use one of these or not and had been contemplating buying one for a few months, found today fairly reasonable on E-BAY so next week when it arrives I will again get a thorough chewing out.
tom

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/200762876109?ssPa...1497.l2649

[PixMan]

I tried using one before. They're unusual and require getting accustomed to the key layout. It's worth doing though because there's so much good data at hand, available without firing-up the computer

[TOM REED]

Ordered last thurs delivered today 6 days later. It is a nice piece and does functions that I have never even heard of plus many I am familiar with but probably never learn how to use it to it's full potential. It is definitely not one of the needed items for a beginner and most likely not even myself. Oh well I have it now. tom

[EdK]

Tom,

It's another tool so you must need it.

Better to have a tool and not need it than to have the need and no tool, or something like that.

Ed

[Highpower]

Close enough.
It's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.

I bought the cheap version without all the extras, on sale for about $15 IIRC. I don't know how to use the "extras" anyway. If I did, I shouldn't need them in the first place, right?

[TOM REED]

Mine works, I just don't know if I am smart enough to get it to work for me. tom