Reply To: What Did You Do Today 2019

[Ian Johnson 1Participant @ianjohnson1]

Posted by Emgee on 29/10/2019 08:51:20:

Started off searching this forum for the thread about Johansson being the source name of Jo blocks, no luck finding it but did come across a reply from Jason within this thread that seemed to ring a bell.

So took a picture of my Digital Caliper made by CE Johansson in Sweden, bought it back in the 1980's from MESAS at an ME exhibition, it was very expensive at that time, I think £70 so it can be seen what good value tools are today.
I also have a Mitutoyo which I have been using for the past 25 years so the Johansson can now go to work again with a new battery fitted, I had removed the old battery when laying it up.

You may notice 1 of the jaws has been machined and the other jaw has a dimple drilled in, that was when the caliper was used as a height gauge,

Emgee

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My thread 'the wonderful world of gauge blocks' had a few comments about Johansson or Jo blocks if that's any help?

MESAS that's where I got my Hobbymat lathe and mill from in the eighties, still got it in the shed somewhere.

Ian