{"id":76,"date":"2014-07-03T17:36:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2016-01-13T13:34:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:34:23","slug":"couldnt-do-without-my-caliper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Couldn’t Do Without My Caliper"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ruler<\/a>

Ruler and Tool Bag provided with the Lulzbot printer<\/p><\/div>\n

The Lulzbot printer comes with a variety of tools in a nice little tool bag, and one of the items is a 150mm ruler.\u00a0 It’s sufficient for short measurements where accuracy isn’t a major factor, but for the rather precise parts and fittings I’m building, I needed something a little more accurate.<\/p>\n

While wandering around the Phoenix Fry’s Electronics store, I found (after asking the very helpful staff there) two electronic models from General Tools & Instruments.\u00a0 I ended up buying the larger Model 147<\/a> for just under $40.\u00a0 I read some reviews of this and similar models on the Amazon site, and a number of people berated the accuracy and battery life.\u00a0 But in my opinion, it works extremely well for my purposes.<\/p>\n

It will read in millimeters, which is very useful when designing in FreeCAD.\u00a0 And if you want<\/strong> to go to inches, it’ll do both decimal and fractional inch measurements.<\/p>\n

To alleviate the battery life problems, my model automatically shuts off after a few minutes.\u00a0 All you have to remember is to close the caliper all the way before turning back on, or hit the “zero” button after closing it.<\/p>\n

This is the six inch version; they have a three inch version for about half the price.<\/p>\n

\"General<\/a>

General Tools Model 147 in action<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Electronic<\/a>

Electronic caliper in the handy case it comes in<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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