Digital Height Gauge Recommendations?

[Richard BrickwoodParticipant @richardbrickwood17062]

I've just bought a beautiful Chesterton Vernier Height Gauge complete with all accesories – does anybody know where I can find a set of instructions particularly for those ?

Edited By Richard Brickwood on 19/02/2022 10:20:19

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

Just to confirm whether Chesterton or Chesterman?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I have a basic one from Machine DRO, It does everything I need.

Neil

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Richard and Diogenes 11. The answer is Chesterman.

What accessories do you have that need instructions? Have never seen any instructions for a vernier height gauge. Presumably expected that a user would be trained how to read a vernier and would already know how to use the accessories..

If you can read a vernier, the use of the other fittings should be pretty intuitive.

There should be the Scriber Blade, with a clamp to clamp it to the arm of the slider, (Maybe both a straight one and a dog leg one, so that with the blade on the surface of the surface table, the scale reads 2" ) a holder for a finger clock, (That also clamps to the arm in place of the Scriber/s ), possibly a slender pointer, and a checking gauge (Probably 2" )

There may well be a lever on the back of the slider that engages a reduction gear so that a smaller knob can be used to adjust the slider height more precisely.

These are the fitting with the ex industry 15" Shardlow vernier height gauge that i have.

I also have an 18" one. It was condemned because it it had an error of 0.002" over 18". An error of 0.0111% is not going to worry me!

It may well be worth buying an inexpensive magnifier to aid reading the Vernier.

Howard

[Anonymous]

Posted by Richard Brickwood on 19/02/2022 10:19:53:

…Vernier Height Gauge complete with all accesories…

Bring it up to the club next time I/we are on duty and I'll attempt to identify the accessories.

Andrew

[Tony Pratt 1Participant @tonypratt1]

If the OP posts a picture all will be answered.

Tony

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Tony Pratt 1 on 19/02/2022 14:42:11:

If the OP posts a picture all will be answered.

+1

How to post photos on the forum is, ahem, a little convoluted. Instructions here.

Dave

[Ronald MorrisonParticipant @ronaldmorrison29248]

If you can read a vernier now, will you still have the vision ability to read the vernier in 10 years? The battery of a digital will need replacing regularly but I find that I can at least see the digits. Not so the vernier.

[Author]

Posts