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jow104
20th August 2004, 12:18 AM
I purchased from www.highlandhardware.com
6"dial caliper at $29.99 us. plus $12us and got delivery from the USA to the UK in under 6 days.
These are imperial measure calipers @ 1/64 "
plus decimal inch
also mm available on the beam. but mm not graduated.

Rocker
20th August 2004, 05:02 AM
For $5 more, you could have got an electronic one with metric and imperial, here

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.asp?SID=&page=46287&category=1%2C43513%2C49782&ccurrency=3

Rocker

SteveI
20th August 2004, 01:59 PM
Hare and Forbes had some 6" dial calipers (metric) for $35 (not much use in the UK I know) however they have run out and I don't think they plan to get more.

Pity - I was planning to use it on Rocker's jig for tenons

jow104
20th August 2004, 05:49 PM
Hi Rocker.

I purchased the electric calipers around 3 weeks ago but had to return owing to equipment being faulty. The power would not switch off. There must be a problem with this model because the chuck out shops have got them in the U.K. and they are retailing them at £6 = $15 aus.?
The only problem I have with the new dial caliper is that its graduated in 64ths. and as you know 1" tolerance is usually good enough for me on my gardening projects. :rolleyes:

Rocker
20th August 2004, 07:41 PM
Steve.

Bunnings have dial gauges, which are more suitable for my tenoning jig than dial calipers, for about $35.

Rocker

SteveI
27th August 2004, 11:46 AM
Rocker


I have a dial guage - but it is only good for 10 or 11mm

I was looking for something longer to enable me to cut both sides of a tenon without removing the timber from the jig. This allows me to deal with different sized timber (I don't have a thicknesser)

The dial caliper will allow me to accurately position the tenon irrespective of variations in the timber

Rocker
27th August 2004, 12:18 PM
Steve,

Most dial gauges read up to 25 mm; however, you could extend the range of your 10 mm one by using a spacer of a known thickness, say 10 mm.

Rocker

SteveI
27th August 2004, 12:56 PM
Rocker

You're right - or I could just use a piece of timber or metal the thickness of the tenon/mortice as the spacer and reset the guage to the same position

I'll have a play