Timeline below if you would like to jump to a specific section Dont know how to read dial caliper. Click in the key inmm to commute the measure between the scales in inch and millimeter.

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Click in the key zero to reset the display in any point of the scale.

. McCray expain how correctly read a dial caliper. 10 2 02 1202. This thousandths-reading caliper features a no-glare dial for accurate readings of inside outside depth and step measurements.

The dial caliper is shown on the image below it has 0001 resolution and imperial inch graduated only. No worries after this video youll be able to read. Spin the outer face until the hand hovers over zero.

Our Plastic Dial Calipers offer precision measurements at affordable prices making them a great choice for hobbyists and do-it-yourselfers. In the dial the pointer gives a full turn 360 every tenth of an inch of advance 01 in and its dial has a hundred divisions. Your calibration measurements will ensure that the dial indicator does read measurements starting at zero.

This mainly happened because they are both easier to use and far more accurate. Reading the caliper is a two-step process. One advantage of adopting the dial to increase the caliper resolution is that it allows the display to turn after unlocked.

A the measurement is read in a single step namely the digits can be read very fast from a large LCD digital readout directly and conveniently b it can be zero-setting at any position for incremental measurements and inch measurements are displayed to within 0005 in. Each division in-between each tenth of an inch represents twenty-five thousandths 0025 of an inch. Drag and drop the cursor in the horizontal or use the buttons.

Reading a dial caliper is quite similar to the vernier caliper. Each graduation on the dial represents 02mm. Drag the cursor to the right and to the left and investigate the results.

Turn the outer dial face until the hand points to 0. It takes 5 revolutions to make 1cm or 10mm. The dial rotates around one time for each tenth.

On an inch Vernier caliper each increment on the main scale represents one-tenth 1 of an inch. The reading in our current example is 25 thousandths 025. The outer dial face can be moved by twisting the rim of the dial.

Thus a measurement of 1202 mm would be obtained by reading 1 1cm 10mm on the main scale. Video tutorial on how to accurately read a dial vernier caliper and also the basic maintenance ownership of a dial vernier caliper. Read the 2-digit thousandths reading from the dial.

The main scale contributes to the main number and one decimal place. The slide is easily advanced and retracted with a free-wheeling thumb roller and the 6-inch bar scale is marked with 110 inch and 1mm. A caliper is a tool used to measure the distance between two sides of an object.

Compared with the traditional caliper types there are four major outstanding advantages of the Tresna digital calipers as follows. The dial vernier caliper. The readings are taken from these two pieces.

Gun Tech Steve Ostrem demonstrates how to measure and properly read a dial caliperWhite Face Caliper 827-559-100Black Face Caliper 827-559-101Red Face Calip. Add to that two graduations past the 1 and then adding 002 as determined by the dial as shown in the image. The dial on the caliper is broken up into 100 increments.

You can measure with an accuracy down to 001mm everything that wouldnt otherwise be easily measurable with any other toolsEven if vernier and dial ones are still very common nowadays digital calipers have become more popular. If the reading is less than 10 then think of it as 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 or 01. The components of the dial caliper are the main scale and the dial.

However the dial caliper consists of a dial meter instead of a vernier scale. Each full revolution is 2mm. In this way each stroke that the pointer sweeps represents the 01 100 inch one tenth of an inch divided by one hundred or one thousandth of an inch.