Mitutoyo Dial Caliper Unbox & Review, New v.s. Old v.s. Starrett

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I just bought these Mitutoyo calipers to replace my old damaged Starretts and in this video I'll share my thoughts about this caliper and how it compares to an older Mitutoyo and a newer Starrett.

[hastyone]

I have a mid 90’s Mitutoyo 12” caliper last calibrated 20yrs ago and it’s dead accurate till this day. Awesome tool.

[theadvocate]

I have a set I bought in the mid 90's # 505-637-50. Came in a gray plastic box. Mine looks like your 80's one with the new white dial.

[PatriotPaulUSA]

Awesome comparison! I am trying to find this type of comparison between a Digital 6" Starrett #799 and the Mitutoyo Digital 500-196-30 Advanced Onsite Sensor (AOS) Absolute Scale Digital Calipers. I cant believe there isn't any videos of this. I mean electronic digitals are what many production shops use today also. I think because of speed and ease of math being done for us on the caliper. Don't get me wrong I love my dial caliper too, but I use it along with gauge blocks and other things to check my digital's readings on the same part. Oh well I guess its a 50/50 shot and most I have read say they are about as close as can be to each other. the Starrett is 127.00 and the Mitutoyo is 116.00 on the Jeff bezos online store fwiw. I may just go Starrett to be different and support some USA jobs. I bet both are about as good as we can get these days unless your near swiss ones.

[zacharyiskandar]

That cover behind the dial is some cast zinc alloy.

[emailv]

Why are you whinging that the dial is not at zero out of the box? The most important thing is that you know how to use the tool. Zero it and move on. You have a high quality tool here. Appreciate it and learn to use it.

[dunxy]

Do they still make some in Japan? Im sure i see dial calipers advertised showing MIJ on dial, different country of origin depending on country of sale? Im Australian and pretty sure they all MIJ here but i mostly buy used . I only have older ones all metal all MIJ.I was lucky enough to get some NOS (im assuming 80's but im NTS how to date these, i have 3 sets all from different production times, different box styles, all metal but some have plastic like for dial lock and wheel retention) sealed in box the other day for bargain price! Scored a minty used 6" imperial for $27AUD shipped last week! Ive never paid over 100aud for Mitutoyo, most expensive the NOS ones but they are 8 or 12" (i forgot) so tend to bring bigger coin, they cost me 80aud from memory. Ive never used a Starret myself, not super common down here, mitutoyo is dominant for (smart)home gamers and industry

[ayrplanes]

The dial rotates so you can zero it on any measurement. The fact that it came not dead on zero means nothing. Rotate the dial bezel until it is at zero.

[ED-esqv]

Being a manufacturing engineer, my opinion is there could be a huge difference in the calibrated version. If it were me, only the best of the runs would go to calibration. If there were any days or times that variation tended to increase, those batches would not be diverted to a value added process, they would go to QC and be sold if they are within standards (probably tighter than the published spec).
All processes have variations, and we plan to send only the best for additional labor.
Fun fact- if a computer chip shorts out during the maximum power test, it’s got something wrong with it, but then we run the test at the lower clock speed and see if we can sell it as the lower power version. Therefore, none of the highest power chips have a known defect, but the same is not true for the lower power model. I always get the fastest because it passed tests that the others didn’t.

[shysterlicious]

Please forgive my stupid question, why are there two scale numbers on the beam of your new Mitutoyo: one on top and one on the bottom? I know one of them is in mm and the bottom one is in inches. But how would you use the metric portion when the dial is configured to inches? I'm so confused. Thank you for your help and for clarifying this for me.

[puo]

Made in Brazil .... nah thanks ! Come on, if I buy a Mitutoyo it has to be made in Japan.