/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2753606
I ended up getting another one for a few bucks more that actually opens to 6” and the corners won’t slice your hand open, but it’s still tight. I like the new one because it has inches in decimal points and fractions.

I hesitate to recommend this brand on Amazon though because they definitely buy fake reviews. A few different Chinesium brands sell the same thing rebranded. Don’t know about battery draining because I always take batteries out of those tools since I don’t want to open it after 6mos of no use and find an exploded cell.

I commented before, precision measuring tools are strange. There’s no mid-grade version of them, it’s either straight chinesium or $$$ Starret and Mituyo. You can either get $15-$35 digital calipers that are all the same rebranded Chinesium (even from known brands), or spend $100+ on good ones.

Dial indicators are the same, and the magnetic bases. There’s a ton of cheaper kits that all look the same with <4.0 star reviews, even the name brands just rebrand the same Chinesium, and you don’t really want measuring tools with mixed reviews, so you have to spend a bunch to get high level with 4.9/5 ratings.

There’s no like $60 Gearwrench or Tekton version of these tools with a 4.7/5.0 rating. The closest for measuring tools would maybe be Empire, but I never see their precision stuff. The General Tools brand you will see at the usual stores is the same as the Chinese brands on Amazon.

>>2722137
Poast caliper.

I think I got this rexbeti for like $35, thought it would be a middle ground between generic $15 digital calipers that everybody sells and the expensive stuff. Then I realized that brand buys tons of fake reviews.

However, I like the fractions, which are common on the same chinesium rebranded for less from other sellers, but it seemed like an extra feature at the time. And compared to the $15-$20 Pittsburgh which was the typical Chinesium digital caliper, the $35 one in the orange box opens and closes much smoother and doesn’t have knife edges on every fucking corner of the thing. The Pittsburgh barely wants to open over 2.5” without getting jammed up.

Never found like the Gearwrench version, the Taiwan one that’s 95% of the Mituyo for <1/2 the cost.