Digital Caliper as a Digital Readout on Small Mill

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Sure it's possible however the mounts are the part you need to be worried about and chips. Chips can serevrly mess up a digital caliper. As for mounting the best way would be to clamp the jaws to the table and then to fabricate a chip shield so that the calipers are protected. As for how to clamp the jaws it totally depends on the parts that you are using. The ideal solution would be to have a set of calipers that have replacable jaws so that you can take the jaws off and use the screw mounts to attach the jaws.

The other option is just to use a dial indicator and a magnetic base.