Callipers - Cheap or Not ?
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Colourful !!!
We can't use the basic mitutoyo's due to our harsh environment. We use the coolant resistant ones. Sadly we have to replace them as every six months as they wear out.
As for the cheapies, I often wondered why when you picked them up they didn't work. So makes sense to remove the battery.
We can't use the basic mitutoyo's due to our harsh environment. We use the coolant resistant ones. Sadly we have to replace them as every six months as they wear out.
As for the cheapies, I often wondered why when you picked them up they didn't work. So makes sense to remove the battery.
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I bet you'd struggle to find a modern engineer that knows what a vernier scale is, let alone read one.
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I remember checking the battery on my V-TECH laptop with the original BMV ....
But it is true that when I did my O Levels, calculators were not allowed as only the rich kids had them so they had to level out the playing field. But we were allowed Slide Rules and my Maths Teacher found some DIY Kits so we could make our own (Slide Rules usually being more expensive than Calculators!)
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Best notdig a slide rule out then eh
saying that I may have forgotten hot to use slide rule now lol
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I’m just young enough to have missed out on them. But not rich enough to have a calculator.
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We weren't allowed slide rules in the o levels, only log tables! and you try telling kids today.
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What ever happened to reddyreconers? (Help if I'm wrong please.)
If I spelt it wrong ! Book Had the multiple tables up to if I remember right 100 X . While kids in Lewisham bridge were looking / remembering with repation 2 up 12 timestable up to 12, iwent up to 99x99 with that book.lol
I love numbers.
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You used to still get tables printed in stationary but not bought anything for a long time that might have had them. Certainly if you bought A4 diaries you could get them. Do you mean the little red (other colours were available) pocket books that just contained tables? I remember when I was an apprentice I had a variety that gave all sorts of conversions but that was before we went decimal
in fact a quick Google: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...epage&q=conversion table pocket books&f=false
in fact a quick Google: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...epage&q=conversion table pocket books&f=false
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Unfortunately they crop up in my work from time to time. Getting the syntax right for the particular software is a pain. I shout for help when ever possible.I remember the Log Tables were essential for tangents, cosines and all those other things you HAD to know for the exams and likely never ever used afterwards
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You used to still get tables printed in stationary but not bought anything for a long time that might have had them. Certainly if you bought A4 diaries you could get them. Do you mean the little red (other colours were available) pocket books that just contained tables? I remember when I was an apprentice I had a variety that gave all sorts of conversions but that was before we went decimal
in fact a quick Google: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g3PfU5VFyScC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=conversion+table+pocket+books&source=bl&ots=5u1ExWeiu3&sig=ACfU3U18xvRAT9Drv1ILCARpPTfesoZE2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjepf2D7abqAhVOhlwKHbnYDpEQ6AEwDHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=conversion table pocket books&f=false
Yes that's the one.
maybe that's why I was given it ! decimalation.lol I thought they loved me.i was 7