Review on 📏 Accurate Stainless Micrometer for Precise Measurements by Adam Gambel

The quality is excellent. My digital HF caliper also claims an accuracy of .001 inches and also reads to the nearest half-thousandth (.0005 inch). It almost always corresponded to this caliper with an accuracy of half a thousandth. And two other inexpensive calipers matched this caliper. The one I received appears to be correctly built, contrary to some other reviews. However - I thought I could read Vernier, I learned about surveying instruments way back before the advent of electronics. But the graduations on the inch scale are so close together that I misinterpreted the readings about a third of the time. And note that you'll need a magnifying glass - I use a stereo magnifying glass with a jeweler's headband - to see the readings. I would write down what I thought was the measurement. Then, about a third of the time, the digital caliper showed at least 0.010 inches more. Coming back to this caliper, I found a matching tick at this larger measurement that also matched what I was relying on just as perfectly. One way to get around this misinterpretation is to display the measurement on a rough scale and estimate between ticks, e.g. B. 60% of the way to the next tick. Then look for the perfect match on the exact scale. 60%, which would be approximately +0.014 inches (gradation 60% x 0.025 inches). This thing is definitely old school. The battery is not needed, so I bought it. But using a magnifying glass to read makes it less convenient than today's digital ones. I was watching a YT video explaining the Starret (well known quality brand) caliper and I can see that Starret is easier to interpret. This makes it easier to see where ticks match up. If you can see well, you don't need a magnifying glass. The finest graduations are not only difficult to read. The overall measurement is more confusing than I expected and prone to error. An asterisk for inches and a millimeter scale on it is easier math for your head. If you don't understand this paragraph, then the caliper is not for you! In general - a quality tool, but for purists. For general use go to HF and get the 0.001 inch digital caliper and some spare batteries. Several reviews here rate this tool better than other inexpensive digital calipers. I gave up and sent it back. Expand the photo at the top of this list. (And you need a good magnifying glass to see something like this.) Does that show 0.670"+0.001"? +021? +0.022? I can't measure to thousandths because I can't tell which tick is better. I made too many mistakes compared to using a definite digital caliper.