Sometimes ideas just aren't worth what people want to charge for them. For instance a piece of warped fiberboard with a flimsy aluminum arm that holds a razor blade at a non-square angle. Andy

You guys make me glad I have a dial caliper. It's stainless, made in China, and I doubt if it cost more than $30 although I don't really remember. I can't really think why I'd want a digital -

I just dug out a Red Caboose box car kit L&N 90145 I bought cheap awhile back. I can't decide whether to keep the paint job or repaint it. So far my research has found: There was a car from this

Well, we have just about discussed about every aspect of calipers that we possibly can...except, I suppose, measuring bananas [ don't even think about it ] even bringing quilting into the discussion.

Hello, Hear, hear. Somebody who thinks the same as me. My Mitutoyo vernier caliper is over forty years old and I have no intention of using anything other than a vernier that measures in imperial

Fellow precision measurers, Thanks for considerable response to my squib yesterday. If I were a better communicator, I would have gone on to suggest that there's a market out there for solar powered

I have a Mitutoyo (which thank you for this thread as I found that I had left it on for weeks when I looked for it to get the spelling) and a Harbor Freight Inchman. While the Inchman currently has a

I have a variety of HO scale freight car parts and kits which I am offering for sale. I have them listed by manufacturer. Some items are limited to only a few pieces. Please reply off-list only. I

For those who may be interested, there's an original 1906 Car Builders' Dictionary up for auction on ebay. The auction ends

It's too bad Micro Mark doesn't sell anything of their own that they didn't steal the idea from someone else. Pat Wilkinson

Thanks for the tip, Rick. I uninstalled Java and re-installed it and can get straight to the TKM now. Thanks and regards, Martin

The cheap calipers pull more power from the battery, even when turned off, than the expensive ones do. Pulling the battery out is the only way to truly turn off most all digital calipers. I do like

This thread has been very interesting. My modeling lives and dies by my calipers, and it has been so ever since my good wife presented me with a set of Mitotoyo PFM vernier calipers with an HO scale

Loading fine here in IE 7 and Firefox 4 under Windows XP. I'll try in the AM on my laptop (Win 7 and I think IE8). Tim Barney

When I got my 1st dial caliper, the improvement in usability over my vernier caliper was remarkable. My dial caliper remains my favorite, and most used tool. I have had occasions to use digital

I get about 60% of the way to completion and it just stops. Refresh, get to 60%, stops. Occasionally it gets a bug in its and's and it jumps to the finish line, but that's very seldom. Dave

All this bad talk about battery operated Calipers. Take a look at Micro Mark no.82556 6" long Digital Caliper that measures .0005 or .01mm for $19.95. Mirco Mark No. 83762 6" long D.C. that

Dave, Try saving it to your documents in Windows and open it from there. Greg Martin

The site has an expired digital certificate. So depending on how your firewall is set and your antivirus, it will abort or ask if you want to run the program pr just run it anyway. The certificate

--- In STMFC@..., Larry Kline wrote: I added a pdf file with the additions and corrections to the files section. The file name is: "P&LE & PMcK&Y Boxcars 1910-1945 - Additions and