Message from @timsandtoms

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2019-07-03 11:52:54 UTC  

AvE did a vid on real Mitutoyos vs knockoffs

2019-07-03 11:53:12 UTC  

Drain on the fakes was nutty, and they drifted when low on battery, with no warning of when that was.

2019-07-03 11:53:17 UTC  

But otherwise worked nice.

2019-07-03 11:53:31 UTC  

I'm just working with cheapo Harbor Freight ones whenever I use them.

2019-07-03 11:53:42 UTC  

yeah my toy was mechanical so no draining problems on it

2019-07-03 11:53:49 UTC  

couldn't you just make your own battery indicator though tom?

2019-07-03 11:53:53 UTC  

but i guess everyone prefers digital*these days (and i dont blame them)

2019-07-03 11:54:35 UTC  

@Semi Truck mc Clusterfuck For that much time and effort I'd prefer just buying legit Mitutoyos

2019-07-03 11:54:56 UTC  

fair enough

2019-07-03 11:57:31 UTC  

Now Incra, that's what I want to see knockoffs of.

2019-07-03 12:00:16 UTC  

"silly guy you are supposed to use the sides..."

2019-07-03 12:00:45 UTC  

*loud bitchslap echoes around the hallways*

2019-07-03 12:03:01 UTC  

what is special about these scales

2019-07-03 12:03:10 UTC  

they're cute

2019-07-03 12:03:32 UTC  

and the inruler holes for the lead

2019-07-03 12:03:43 UTC  

so you can make sure your line does not sway

2019-07-03 12:04:15 UTC  

but aint incras cheap on ebay ?

2019-07-03 12:04:29 UTC  

Yup, every 1/64th of an inch, or 1/4 of a mm

2019-07-03 12:04:51 UTC  

>using inches in 2019

2019-07-03 12:05:15 UTC  

For woodworking in the US? Yeah, I'm not gonna make tooling that much of a pain.

2019-07-03 12:05:46 UTC  

@Tervy Not really. About Amazon prices. All the Incra stuff is reasonable, but it could be cheap.

2019-07-03 12:06:07 UTC  

$25-$50 or so for most of the stuff like that.

2019-07-03 12:06:22 UTC  

so worth it if you need it

2019-07-03 12:06:25 UTC  

Yeah

2019-07-03 12:06:35 UTC  

but not "this specialty bullshit costs 100euros per millimeter

2019-07-03 12:07:07 UTC  

Totally a justifiable thing, not like Mitutoyo over Chinese shit. Especially being that there isn't an alternative.

2019-07-03 12:07:19 UTC  

just like you never though you want template rulers

2019-07-03 12:07:24 UTC  

The protractor was around $26

2019-07-03 12:07:30 UTC  

but god damn they are handy if you ever hand plan anything on paper

2019-07-03 12:08:10 UTC  

same with slide/logarithmic rulers

2019-07-03 12:10:46 UTC  

Oh, but yeah, you know any good calibration weights? Bought a real cheap set on Ali, but it's terrible. My scale only goes up to 20g, and I'm pretty sure some of the manufacturing blemishes are a good couple tenths of a gram.

2019-07-03 12:11:38 UTC  

weights

2019-07-03 12:12:08 UTC  

didnt ali have those stainless steel weights in their laboratory part ?

2019-07-03 12:12:14 UTC  

what come in some case or some shit

2019-07-03 12:12:32 UTC  

but i have no experience from chink weights

2019-07-03 12:13:33 UTC  

This type of thing was what I got https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32950497319.html

2019-07-03 12:14:12 UTC  

id check aliexpress itself but fuckers still think im bot

2019-07-03 12:14:18 UTC  

and demand login on every fucking step

2019-07-03 12:17:59 UTC  

permissible error noted

2019-07-03 12:19:29 UTC  

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32287394098.html? looks also to be at least information heavy about what they use and so on