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I am rather interested in what brands of tools everybody uses in there shop. ive seen lots of shops use mitutoyo but my shop uses just as much Fowler as mitutoyo and how does that compare to other shops. if i didn’t include your brand please leave a comment.
Not technically a machinist but when I was rebuilding engines we used a mixture of Snap-on and Mitutoyo.
The Snap-on sets were the “Rough and tumble” units that floated around the shop and the Mitu’s were reserved almost exclusively for double checking the snap-ons when a measurement didn’t make sense.
Hexagon is a huge conglomerate that owns reputable brands like Brown and Sharpe, Etalon, and Tesa.
I voted Mitutoyo as that’s what we have most of but swiss premium really does stand out. Etalon is top top end but they make only a select variety of measurement tools. And unfortunately Brown&Sharpe is slowly falling towards the Starret line (lower quality, value focused items).
I personally use a mitutoyo when I’m making something in the shop, I really like the solar powered ones.
Our machinists use old Starrett stuff for precision measurements (drop gauges, cylinder calipers, even the head Machinist’s dial caliper is a Starrett!).
Side Q: am I the only one who thinks people still using verniers or analog calipers is crazy?
In day-to-day machining, probably vernier is more error-prone.
However, in a seldom dug into toolbox, where batteries go to die, you bet your butt, I’ve verniers.
Also, there apparently are ONE HELL of alot of fake Mitutoyo products in existence, and that means an aweful lot of fake accuracy is being calibrated-to.
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Yeah thanks for the heads up, I’ve seen a bunch on Amazon for ex.
These are real, we get them from an official reseller of mitutoyo, listed on their site (Newport.com). My machinists have been bitten before in their storied careers, we have an inconel reference block they measure to, even has expected dimensions at whatever current temperature is engraved on it.
Just checked Mitutoyo, now it looks like they have a specially carbide-tipped model that I kinda want, since I’m naughty and scribe my parts lol (573-677-20)
My shop uses alot of digital, however i still love using my mityoito dial calipers. Veirners tho, nooope i hated reading those things! 128th steel rule anyone LMAO
