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Anybody work in engineering? (1 Viewer)

  • Thread starter Nick
  • Start date Dec 20, 2021
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Nick

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #1
Somebody has asked me to do something for them but this is the image, anybody know what sort of tool / gauge it is so I can try and find one to draw for them?
 

Bugsy

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #2
Nick said:
Somebody has asked me to do something for them but this is the image, anybody know what sort of tool / gauge it is so I can try and find one to draw for them?
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its a mirco metre


 
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jimmyhillsfanclub

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #3
Looks like a micrometer to me.

EDIT: Bugsy beat me to it
 
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Nick

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #4
Amazing, thanks
 

Sbarcher

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #5
Of course it looks like a micrometer, but it's really a very fine adjustable spanner.
 
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SomersetSB

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #6
Yes I use them everyday micrometer
 
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BodicoteSkyBlue

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  • Dec 20, 2021
  • #7
Sbarcher said:
Of course it looks like a micrometer, but it's really a very fine adjustable spanner.
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Or you can use it as a g-clamp
 
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richnrg

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  • Dec 22, 2021
  • #8
thumbscrew
 

JAM See

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  • Dec 22, 2021
  • #9
It’sabatch87 said:
Yes I use them everyday micrometer
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Good to know that some engineering is still going on in the midlands.

A mate of mine had to give up his precision grinding company because his prices were constantly being undercut by the South Koreans.
 

Kneeza

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  • Dec 24, 2021
  • #10
It's a 0-1 inch or 0-25mm micrometer vernier caliper. I have several (Starret, Mitutoyo, Moore & Wright) if you need a photo.
 

Sbarcher

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  • Dec 27, 2021
  • #11
A vernier does the same job but a different piece of kit entirely.
 

Kneeza

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  • Dec 27, 2021
  • #12
Sbarcher said:
A vernier does the same job but a different piece of kit entirely.
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I was merely using the full title of the tool (unless Moore and Wright got it wrong when I did my apprenticeship 50-odd years ago).
Both tools utilize the (Pierre) Vernier scale to perform the same job in two slightly different ways - the Vernier caliper by means of a slide scale, and the Vernier Micrometer Caliper (mic, mike) by a rotary scale acting on a fixed main scale.
 
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