Dropped 40 bucks on a digital caliper and it's been a game changer

I got tired of guessing on my drafting measurements and finally bought a Mitutoyo caliper. It caught a .005 inch error on a part I've been drawing for weeks. Anyone else find their old methods were way off once they went digital?

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casey_torres606d agoMost Upvoted

And then you spent another hour trying to figure out if you really needed to know the thickness of your phone case down to the thousandth of an inch... I don't think so but it did make my desk feel like a science lab for a while. My Mitutoyo was a rude awakening too, found out my "eyeballing it" method was off by like a half millimeter on some parts. Still worth every penny though, even if it just makes me feel smarter while measuring random junk.

black.patricia6d ago

Bought a cheap one off Amazon and spent an hour measuring random things around my desk for no reason.