Digital callipers at Lidl

2Phat4Rapha
2Phat4Rapha Posts: 238
edited August 2011 in Workshop
I may be a minority of one but that doesn't prevent me from being right.
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  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    I have a similar one from ebay - does all that I want from it.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Had one for a couple years - fine, and the sort of price I wanted to pay
  • Garry71
    Garry71 Posts: 96
    Take the battery out if you don't use it regularly as it's always in circuit and will drain down.
    Cycling is too nice to waste it on getting to work.
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    its not cheap though is it
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    9 quid for a digital caliper? Sounds cheap enough to me. Mine was a tenner off Ebay last year. Can't remember how I used to cope without it.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,787
    Out of interest, What do ytou use them for?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    ddraver wrote:
    Out of interest, What do ytou use them for?

    Surprisingly useful. Measuring seatposts and seat tubes, chain wear, tyre tread (if you have the right type of calliper that allow you), sizes of bolts. Lots of other things.

    Usually about a fiver on ebay.
  • keef66
    keef66 Posts: 13,123
    Measuring the internal / external dimensions of round things like seatposts / tubes, headset bearings & races, wheel rim thickness, ball bearing sizes, screw and bolt sizes, thickness of sheet materials I'm using for shims / packing. And very carefully, cos it's pointy, skin fold thickness!

    Most of these things are impossible to measure accurately with a ruler.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,787
    OK, not general bike stuff then...
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    ddraver wrote:
    OK, not general bike stuff then...

    Eh?
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,787
    How many times do you measure the width of your seat post, or do you just remember it?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • dodgy
    dodgy Posts: 2,890
    Put it this way, it gets used many times in a year and I've had it 3 years, well worth the fiver paid. Seatpost is but one application.

    A ruler is no substitute for a pair of callipers, but since you had to ask "what do you use them for", we're on the backfoot in provoking your imagination for you :lol:

  • thanks for the heads up, bought one (and the vice!)