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Hello JHM, thanks for that and for the link to the post on ME. I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice the issue. I did find some burring at the bolt holes and a bit of dressing with a hand

I have a rolling tool cart from HF, and bought belts for the Unimat there, but otherwise do my best to avoid; they require a drivers license to return something, and I'm don't steal inventory from

Hello Dick: I invite you and all the Unimat folks to visit my shop and railroad. I really enjoy sharing. Carl. Here is the railroad and a glimpse of the shop:

Just trying to think of a room in the house I don't have a vernier calliper in -oh yes, the bathroom. Sent from Outlook for Android

The core imperial / standard units really are not that weird. Sure not as neat and tidy as metric with its base 10, but really not hard to work with. Most of the really out there units are very

I have a Mitutoyo dial caliper. School threw it out because someone left it in one of the CNC machines, and it froze.? I hosed it down with WD-40, let it sit for a week or so, with periodic dowsing

Calipers and micrometers are a dime a dozen. I have both metric and imperial. They are either dial or digital mechanical (no screwing around with batteries). I also have some conventional but seldom

Hello Carl, The only metric measuring tools ?I have are my 2 digital calipers. All my other measuring tools (micrometers etc are imperial. At 75 years old I am not about to invest in new tools for

Hello Carl, I agree and that is how I operate in my home shop today. I am completely happy with that. Dick -- http://www.homemadetools.net/ forum/ OFF- SET-tailstock-center-65965#post105972

“ I generally have a pair on our Dining Room table so I can measure something quickly.”. “No pudding until you eat up all your greens!” “Half?, please”, “ok half”. “Can I have

You’re welcome Pat. As a science major I got used to the metric system in high school (early 1960s) as almost every class I had drilled us on using the metric system and doing conversions. As

My only digital caliper is a Harbor Freight unit that I've been fighting with for about 6 years.? It would reset to zero randomly due to bad battery connections.? I finally figured out how to make

I truly appreciate Dial Calipers... When I attend classes, I take a pair of dial calipers and the digital dial calipers that convert to mm at touch of a button, they are truly useful, and I generally

Hello Dick: I think the biggest problem with the metric conversion ( changing our standards ) that they focused on metric conversions ( calculations of conversions of values from imperial to metric )

I wouldn’t worry too much about which system is “better”, when you consider that ALL of the units we use for length, mass, or time are variables and change with one’s velocity. The effects of

I remember back in the fifties,sixtys and seventies the US was actively attempting to adopt the metric system and had a plan to accomplish same. However, the US could not muster up enough support from

Hi Gang: For real fun Pattern Shops use "shrink scales", to build wooden patterns for sand casting iron or aluminum. They are a certain percentage over sized so when the metal cools it is the desired

Yes, the metrification of plywood drives me nuts!? At least the other dimensions are correct.? Another change is the length and width of 5mm (3/16") luan; it used to be exactly 4x8', but now I

That's no crazier than King Edward II's 14th century definition of an inch, “three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end lengthwise.”

A tum is the thumb width.? What part of the thumb I'm not sure.? I always assumed the knuckle, but mine would be 1.15 tums without pressing against the scale.? The width at the base of the thumb