0-150mm micrometers

[WorAl]

Can anyone recommend a good set for around the £100 mark? been looking for a few days and have found one set but not sure they are any good (Linear, are they any good??) as the Mitutoyo, Moore and Wright, Tesa etc are around £450-£500 for the same range (or have I answered my own question?)

[pugwash4x4]

does it have to be a micrometer, or could you use a dial gauge?

i have a cheapy £30 micrometer from somewhere odd (maplins i think), which is reasonably accurate down to about 50thou

anything more accurate than that and i have to get the dial gauge out!

[WorAl]

Just find working with micrometers easier and more accurate, ones im looking at are accurate to 0.01mm apparently. Was just looking for something decent but not £450 as only going to be used a few times, then maybe a few more times in 10 years

[johnbaz]

usually micrometers go in the ranges of 0 to 25mm then 25 to 50mm, 50 to 75mm, 0 to 150 probably do exist but i don't recall ever seeing one

i know that netto/aldi etc do digital verier guages occasionally that are 0/150mm and are really easy to use, they can be reset to zero, readout can be metric or switched to imperial...
for around a tenner, you can't go wrong, from memory they're accurate to a tenth of a milimeter or so....

[WorAl]

johnbaz said:

usually micrometers go in the ranges of 0 to 25mm then 25 to 50mm, 50 to 75mm, 0 to 150 probably do exist but i don't recall ever seeing one

i know that netto/aldi etc do digital verier guages occasionally that are 0/150mm and are really easy to use, they can be reset to zero, readout can be metric or switched to imperial...
for around a tenner, you can't go wrong, from memory they're accurate to a tenth of a milimeter or so....

You are of course correct, they don't do a 0-150mm micrometer, they are either 6 individual ones or you can buy a one with interchangable gauges.

There are lots of good Vernier gauges about for around £50 but I was just looking for something extremely accurate, seems though, that for the money there is no such set available.

[Matt172]

would you not be better just buying a 1~150 digital vernier? they work to the same accuracy that you mentioned, and you can pick one up for £80ish

http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/details.php?ca...

[993AL]

How about these

http://www.mscjlindustrial.co.uk/JLP-20150B/REC:NE...

http://www.mscjlindustrial.co.uk/SPU-13490E/SEARCH...

[V10Mike]

It's worth a look on ebay -I bought a full set for about £30, old, but recently calibrated. Otherwise use a good quality (Mitutoyo) digital vernier caliper.

eg: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/micrometers-measuring-tools_...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Micrometer-set-of-6-outside_...
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MICROMETERS_W0QQitemZ2303696...
Nice set this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MICROMETER_W0QQitemZ27044646...

Edited to add links

Edited by V10Mike on Thursday 27th August 13:33