Digital or Dial Calipers?This is a discussion on Digital or Dial Calipers? within the The Polling Place forums, part of the Use and Training category; The dial caliper can be more easily misread than the digital screen. I got mine for reloading, so I got digital just to prevent me ...
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02-10-2012, 07:19 AM
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The dial caliper can be more easily misread than the digital screen. I got mine for reloading, so I got digital just to prevent me from making an error in reading the scale.
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02-10-2012, 08:37 AM
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What about option #3? Vernier!
You won't know how nice a dial or digital is if you don't start with a vernier.
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02-10-2012, 09:08 AM
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Although I can read a dial caliper with my eyes closed (and some say I do), I prefer digital, especially one that will read in either inches or metric.
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02-10-2012, 09:21 AM
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I have both use the dial 95% of the time. I like being able to just pick it up and go. I found a Sears SS Craftsman that reads in inch and Metric. In a pawn shop for $29.95, its cool. I would have no problem using a caliper on machining a barrel its the user not the tool, unless the user is a tool
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02-10-2012, 09:25 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by john_bud
What about option #3? Vernier!
You won't know how nice a dial or digital is if you don't start with a vernier.
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My first caliper was a metric Vernier. Gads that was a long time ago. Keep it with my slide rule. And don't ever want to go back there.
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02-10-2012, 09:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lopper
I have both use the dial 95% of the time. I like being able to just pick it up and go. I found a Sears SS Craftsman that reads in inch and Metric. In a pawn shop for $29.95, its cool. I would have no problem using a caliper on machining a barrel its the user not the tool, unless the user is a tool
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I wouldn't trust dial calipers on anything that has a tolerance of +/- .025 or lower... there just not accurate enough for me, thats why i love micrometers... i'm used to machining on very tight tolerances in the military, and calipers just don't cut it when u have a +/- .0001 tolerance... but to each their own!
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02-10-2012, 01:49 PM
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Like you said each to their own. Do find it surprising you would think that a Caliper would be good for +/- .025 of a inch only, I been machining and building machines for more then a few years and have no problem going +/- .0005 wilf a good dial caliper. and have seen many Micrometers off as much as .010 over the years. I also worked making Suppressors for a large company and we did not have a Micrometer in the place until I took my tool box there. but again I say to each his own...
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02-10-2012, 02:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Breadman03
The dial caliper can be more easily misread than the digital screen. I got mine for reloading, so I got digital just to prevent me from making an error in reading the scale.
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Only if you don't know how to read one. Seriously, if you can't read a dial caliper, then reloading may be beyond you as well. 
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02-10-2012, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Disturbed
I wouldn't trust dial calipers on anything that has a tolerance of +/- .025 or lower... there just not accurate enough for me, thats why i love micrometers... i'm used to machining on very tight tolerances in the military, and calipers just don't cut it when u have a +/- .0001 tolerance... but to each their own!
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You do NOT need the accuarcy of a micrometer for 98% of what a reloader needs. There is NOTHING about reloading that requires or even desires 0.0001" accuracy.  A good dial caliper will hapopily read 0.001" accuracy all day every day & that kind of accruacy is rarely needed in reloading.
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02-10-2012, 03:28 PM
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MAC dial & Snap-on digital but I use them for vehicle repairs (seals, beaings, pinion shims,etc.). Have not started reloading yet!
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