According to an article I read some years ago by a company called Long Island Indicator, Mitutoyo don’t make particularly good indicators anyway. Perhaps your Miluloyo is better, but I doubt it somehow!

If your Miluloyo works ok, it is good value for £16, a real one would be three or four times as much. If you drop it, there won't be as many tears.

My Mitutogo cost £7.00 and has held up pretty well.

David.

I've wondered for a while why the fakers go to all the trouble of copying Mitutoyo products & then make simple spelling errors. It has just hit me that they don't use our alphabet so to them it all looks good, maybe??

Tony

The spelling errors are to prevent legal action. Even in China, there have been lawsuites against counterfeit goods. Big names like Kennametal and Henkel (Loctite) have factories there and will protect their copyrights.

I cant remember where I read this "The main difference between cheap and expensive indicators is the sound the owner makes when they hit a concrete floor"

Brian G

An ex work mate borrowed my 0.001 Mercer dial indicator to set up a job on a CNC mill and forgot to remove it from the spindle which started to rotate at 10,000 rpm. It was buried halfway through a 10mm policarbonate screen when I last saw it.

David