These are well made, all metal digital calipers. Comes with a battery fitted and two spare batteries. Unlike many other low price tools this comes with a decent set of instructions.
Measurements appear to be accurate and can be in mm, inches or fractions of an inch which is useful for Americans.
Been impressed by these, much better than the previous set I had
As previous reviewers have mentioned the setting wheel feels loose, but works fine. The reported problem with movement waking it up doesn’t happen, maybe that was just the previous version. Accuracy checked against feeler gauges, zeros well, the depth facility is very useful for me as is the fractions function. I’m not an engineer, just a guitar tech, and this does everything I need at an amazing price. And two free spare batteries!
A lot of digital calipers only give metric and decimal imperial measurements, but this one also gives fractions. Measured against other measuring tools I have they are as accurate as needed for model engineering purposes, and a joy to use. Only negative is that the slightest movement of the sliding part turns them on so you’ll need to be careful when you put them away to prevent a flat battery.
Quite impressive quality at a budget price. LED screen tends to flash a bit and not super easy to read but moving parts function nicely and for a home mechanic I’d say very acceptable. Pleased overall.
Great set that has a bunch of features to compete with more expensive brands. One annoying feature is that if you turn it off but slightly move the slide it automatically comes back on, so need to be careful when putting it away!
I get through a lot of digital calipers – I use them daily, they get lost, ‘borrowed’ or (at this price point) eventually fail in one way or another. Personally I use them for a quick check when machining to get things to +/- 0.02mm before switching to micrometers if I need to be more accurate.
These seem OK for that purpose. On the plus side:
– The jaws are well machined. There is no discernible gap between them when closed and held up to a light.
– They return to zero on opening and reclosing. Not always the case with instruments at this price.
– They are accurate to spec (+/- 0.02mm) over their full range and better (+/- 0.01mm) over 0-50mm.
On the minus side:
– the action is slightly ‘gritty’ compared to high end instruments, but it’s not a problem in practice.
– the display is smaller than other comparable calipers I have – not a problem for me, but maybe a consideration for others.
These are well made, all metal digital calipers. Comes with a battery fitted and two spare batteries. Unlike many other low price tools this comes with a decent set of instructions.
Measurements appear to be accurate and can be in mm, inches or fractions of an inch which is useful for Americans.
Been impressed by these, much better than the previous set I had
As previous reviewers have mentioned the setting wheel feels loose, but works fine. The reported problem with movement waking it up doesn’t happen, maybe that was just the previous version. Accuracy checked against feeler gauges, zeros well, the depth facility is very useful for me as is the fractions function. I’m not an engineer, just a guitar tech, and this does everything I need at an amazing price. And two free spare batteries!
A lot of digital calipers only give metric and decimal imperial measurements, but this one also gives fractions. Measured against other measuring tools I have they are as accurate as needed for model engineering purposes, and a joy to use. Only negative is that the slightest movement of the sliding part turns them on so you’ll need to be careful when you put them away to prevent a flat battery.
Quite impressive quality at a budget price. LED screen tends to flash a bit and not super easy to read but moving parts function nicely and for a home mechanic I’d say very acceptable. Pleased overall.
Great set that has a bunch of features to compete with more expensive brands. One annoying feature is that if you turn it off but slightly move the slide it automatically comes back on, so need to be careful when putting it away!
These seem OK for that purpose. On the plus side:
– The jaws are well machined. There is no discernible gap between them when closed and held up to a light.
– They return to zero on opening and reclosing. Not always the case with instruments at this price.
– They are accurate to spec (+/- 0.02mm) over their full range and better (+/- 0.01mm) over 0-50mm.
On the minus side:
– the action is slightly ‘gritty’ compared to high end instruments, but it’s not a problem in practice.
– the display is smaller than other comparable calipers I have – not a problem for me, but maybe a consideration for others.