[Farmall] tools

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Bob,
I would stay away from the plastic calipers. We have one at work we keep under the counter for rough measuring.The jaws that measure inside are worn about 1/8". You can buy a fairly decent stainless dial caliper for $20-40 that will probably serve your purposes if you are not doing machine work.I personally don't like the digital lcd calipers. I guess I'm old fashioned. I can see the little gear rack in the dial caliper and understand that a gear moved against it and know how it works. How do the digital ones work? I don't know. I'm sure they are fine and accurate and all; just not my cup of tea. I also feel that the fewer tools I have that take batteries the better. My luck the battery would be dead when I really need it.LOL!
BTW have you seen the new motorized adjustable wrench advertised? What a joke that is!



Todd Markle 

Spring Mills, Pa.



-----Original Message-----
From: jweber77 at charter.net
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Sent: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 3:13 am
Subject: Re: [Farmall] tools


I would suggest any of the following:
Mityutoyo
tarret
rown & Sharp
These are all great quality manufacturers.  You can get very good results out of 
he cheap import calipers, micrometers, etc, but the quality isn't as great, and 
hey will not last as long as the ones above.  Granted, anything that deals with 
ccuracy only lasts as long as you care for it.


--- Bob Currie <tracturs at att.net> wrote: 
 I would like to upgrade some of my hand tools and was wondering about a good, 
and held, caliper micrometer for measuring OD, ID, and depth. I've seen various 
rands, various prices, and stainless steel ones, plastic ones, titanium ones, 
ial readouts or LCD readouts. I would appreciate your input/comments. Thanks. 
 
 bobcurrie,
 Greenwood, CA
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