How To Use Manual Vernier Calipers (Old School!)

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[jud]

49 plus years I have been using the manual Vernier. I still prefer the manual one. Great piece, great tool.
My 1.20 metre Vernier is a jewel for me.
Very good video ! Cheers !

[Nine_]

I am 52 and I still have the caliper from a job when I was 22. It’s the only one I have, but being American I usually use the top scale. That is until I got into FPV! Now I use the bottom scale more often. Works perfectly. The beauty is that it cannot be wrong, where electronics can fail and become inaccurate.

I work in HVAC engineering. We use a lot of quality mercury bulb thermometers. We calibrate our instruments with these thermometers. Our electronic thermometers get out of calibration. Mercury bulbs never do unless you break it. Relative humidity is verified with a wet sock on a mercury thermometer and a fan blowing across it. Dry and wet bulb temperatures are converted to a relative humidity on a psychometric chart. This stuff is not obsolete. It’s the gold standard.

Great video. Never need a battery! Cannot be wrong. (Unless it was built wrong then you get what you pay for, but it’s still going to be repeatable).

[corbymodelboatclub]

That was a trip down memory lane. We used to call them the " Guessing Stick" Like many engineers of old I still have my old kit and sometimes use it.

[joecrupi]

I didn’t gauge how useful this would be.
Stay safe with your family 🤘🏻

[sidraqureshi]

My practical is tomorrow morning, finally I found a video for my practical

[NewCityPrepper]

Never used these at school in the 70s but was just given one & realised I had no idea how to use it, this video has helped me enormously…..although I do struggle a bit as I have dyscalculia which causes me problems.

[jeanniewest]

Sometimes simple is better. No tiny disk battery to search for, no broken plastic parts that hold the damn battery in place and no tape to hold battery in place due to cheaply made broken part. My new “old school” callipers are so sturdy, they totally rock. Thank you for explaining—I got it!👍🏻😊

[CyberProletar]

I inherited one from my Dad many years ago and been using it ever since. Never even noticed the markings on the outside so didn't know it can measure fractions of millimeters. Today I learned. Thank you!

[JasonIsAPro]

I can't believe I have to learn how to use the ruler again in university

[David-hmic]

In college, early 1970s, I took a drafting course and learned to read verniers using drafting machines. I still use vernier measuring tools today including .0001" micrometers, . One is an 18" vernier caliper. It's a beast but it's accurate.

[rdxzero]

I've just inherited one of these from a retiring engineer. I gave him a puzzled look and told him I have no idea how to use this because I've only ever used digital.
He gave me an earful about "back in my day", "you kids" etc.
Luckily for me, I have the internet now unlike him when he was younger. So, here I am watching your youtube video guide lol

[riovonstahl]

i bought a really old once from a second hand shop, then cleaned it and its measures are spot on! go it for only 10€ and its super well bult. best tool invesment in my life so far.

[sindhuvaramakkal]

That our pratical examiner asked me to read the reading without using any equation and I saw your video early in the morning. U saved me bro ❤😂

[jamesemery]

I have manual and automatic calipers and micrometers. I'll be honest I haven't used the manual ones in years I got lazy and spoiled as a boss from years ago bought me a good quality automatic caliper and micrometer. Good info as always. Stay safe Lee

[REALITY_ONLY_PLEASE]

Thanks, very useful. I haven’t used that skill since I got my first digital calipers. Drilled into me during my apprenticeship in the 70s. Happy to know I remember the process.

[tricky.pixels]

Brilliant...just prdered a Mitutoyo MIT530-104 and am dying to start measuring stuff...I didn't know how to use it so thank you very much...perfectly explained!!!

[ChrisBalmforth]

Takes me back to my time in the BSA Motorcycles apprentice training school in 1971! All inches then though.

[littleangel]

Watched this at work! I learnt how to use it at college but I forgot. Needed to use one to measure something as we don't have any digital ones a certain size on site atm. This video helped me so much. Thank

[bomberaustychunksbruv]

Good vid. I'm a toolmaker by trade (Camborne School of Mines Cornwall). So was taught both metric and imperial in fractions and decimal. I have all my Grandads measuring gear passed down to me, he was a shop foreman in the Midlands.