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Digital vernier caliper...
« on: March 19, 2019, 02:48:44 pm »
...in Aldi NOW!


£7.99!!!!!

Good quality, multi-function (e.g. displays circumference of a bar or pipe from the diameter, mm/inch (whatever an inch is), imcludes batteries and a case.

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2019, 03:32:52 pm »
You don't even need to go to Aldi:
https://www.aldi.co.uk/workzone-digital-caliper/p/097103241291600

Accuracy of +/- 0.02 mm/0.001” (<100 mm) and +/- 0.03 mm/0.001” (>100-500 mm) - according to DIN 862

3 year warranty/guarrantee.
Free delivery over £20 - or £2.95 under £20.


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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2019, 05:52:07 pm »
I just went in for a roll of Gorilla Tape and there it was. Aanyway, spending money on delivery is a hanging crime around here.

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2019, 06:07:18 pm »
I went to Aldi for a new digital multimeter £9.99 and came out with both, bargain !
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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2019, 06:07:59 pm »
mine is now 7 years old and still using the original battery!

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2019, 06:10:50 pm »
Yes, they had quite a selection of good stuff. More of the combination ratchet spaniards I got last time they were in.

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2019, 06:13:34 pm »
Aldi reminds me of what I want to buy!

Luckily I see it's at Amazon for £8.99 so 1 quid more means I can not even have to get up!

I have an analogue one here but it's less massive and... i want this one!

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2019, 08:38:49 pm »
I'm going to be a pedant here and point out that that isn't a vernier caliper, unless it's got a vernier scale on the back.

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2019, 10:34:26 pm »
And to be fair, it wasn't advertised as a vernier, merely a digital caliper...

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2019, 07:37:16 am »
I use them at work, still prefer me a nice micrometer though..

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2019, 01:22:45 pm »
And, having only used it in earnest once, it transpired that it failed me big time....

More anon  >:(

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2019, 04:49:49 pm »
And, having only used it in earnest once, it transpired that it failed me big time....

More anon  >:(
do tell, I use mine primarily for reloading cartridges so the odd thousandths of an inch is relatively important   :P
fortunately its always come up trumps

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2019, 05:45:47 pm »
Here beginneth the saga...

My Honda Rally 'adventure' bike (Tesco for the shopping and green-laning hereabouts) has a 'toolbox' which, with clever and astute packing will hold my jump-starter, OEM tool-kit (about as much use as a chocolate fireguard) and a bit and two bobs. Sorry Uncle  8)

I decided it needed one of those 'hard man' tool tubes for £12 from Mr Zhang. It is the biz and everyone wants one.

It has a sealing 'O' ring to keep the shite out and at 1.5mm cross-section it was obvious it was going to fail at some point. So, back to Mr Zhang's relatives to buy some more to weigh down the tool tube even more. But what size?

If you have ever tried to measure the diameter of a large, floppy 'O' ring you will know it is like herding cats; push it in there, pull it out here, round a bit, no, not square a bit....

Eventually, two of my brain cells collided and I realised that measuring the diameter of the inside of the screw-on lid would give the diameter it had to 'stretch over' and that was the diameter I needed.

So, out with the shiny new super-dooper, highly accurate wotsit and it's in the bag. Measured twice for good luck so Mr Zhang's cousin won't make a loss on five large 'O' rings for £1:25 delivered.

120mm. Again, 120mm.

When they arrived they were way too big. You b'stad yellow-skinned theiving, cheating scoundrels.

Because there was no way in God's little green earth that I was going to send them back (£1:25 FROM China - £9:45 TO China), I cut one and spread it out and measured it and got that nice Mr. Pythagoras to work out the diameter. 120mm! I measured it again. 120mm. Now my finest Rabone steel rule may vary slightly between summer and winter and it has seen a fair bit of use down the decades, (not all of it for measuring stuff  ::) ) but it is as good as need be for this job.

So, out with the Aldi special. Zero it, wind it out to 120mm. It reads 120mm. Wind it back in, it says 15mm at zero. Zero it, wind it out to 120mm, it says 115mm. Wind it back in, 5mm. And so it goes on.

It isn't always wrong and not consistently either. Lets face it most builders have a steel tape with the first few inches missing but even they can compensate as long as more don't drop off while they are using it.

So, next time I'm passing, it's going back.

If I were using it for reloads I'd need a whole range of PPE to save me from the whizz bangs   :o

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2019, 08:55:08 pm »
Phew - that's better out than in.

I can heartily recommend a fine Yorkshire tea and a nice buttered scone...

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Re: Digital vernier caliper...
« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2019, 09:02:15 pm »
with jam, obviously  ;D