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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
Other than facility with mental addition, what skill, useful elsewhere in life, do you learn by using vernier calipers, that you wouldn't also learn using dial or digital calipers?
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How to read a vernier scale, perhaps? Also see below.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Buy a cheapo set of digital calipers. Amazon currently has them on sale for $15 a pair. Buy 4 or 5.
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I guess for everyday team use it's not a bad thought.
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Originally Posted by sanddrag
I'd stay away from vernier calipers. Talk about an instant drop in work efficiency. I used them once and never again. I had a professor with a PhD that couldn't figure out the darn things.  |
I guess it depends on what the PhD was in.
But a vernier scale is a useful construct in the linear measurement world, as is the idea of indirect-reading scales.
No Tristan, it's not a huge life lesson, but just another bit of knowledge that could help some day. The difference between education and experience. And, if you get a PhD, you won't embarrass yourself by admitting you can't figure out a vernier scale.
