Kevin54
MEMBER EMERITUS
If you shop around, you can pick up machinist tools for real reasonable prices. I'd say half of mine I bought off of other Toolmakers that retired. One thing with the tools, be very careful who you lend them to, or don't lend them at all. Just like a pair of mics, each mic basically has it's own feel to the person that owns it. Two different people can use the same mic and get a different reading.
Thats wasn't all of the lot. This Misc was added too. I'll take offers on the whole deal. The depth guage I won for $40.
You picked up that depth mic for a steal
As far as the Verniers, if you want a brand name set, you will pay good money for them. And like someone said above, learning to read them is a dieing art. Todays people want to look at the dial or a digital dial. But when it comes to calipers and verniers, even though they say that they are accurate to .001....that .001 is only good if you have the touch to use them. Verniers are harder because you have a little more weight and a little more bearing surface to get in just the right position for an accurate reading. But a vernier is built more stout than your caliper. I've seen others measure using only the tips of their caliper and then wonder why when it goes to inspection the part is a couple of thousandths out of tolerance. Measuring with the tip will cause the head to pivot enough to give a false reading. I always tried to instill into the ones that I taught to use a caliper as reference and always use a micrometer whenever possible
This Depth Guage set looks unused so I picked this one up also.
