[Closed] Recommend me a digital vernier caliper

How accurate do you need it to be?
I got one from Lidl, probably 10 years ago, it still works close enough for me in the garage, but I'm not making watches...
It was about £8.

I have a lidl one. Says my bars are 31.8 so its near enough for what I want

theres a 6" set on amazon by Moore and Wright for £26. they used to be very good with micrometers years ago. Would think they would be fine.

I’ve had a couple of those Lidl gauges, they always seem to stop functioning after a few months despite replacing the batteries.
Maybe I ought to invest in something a bit more reliable, but not stupidly expensive. Anyone got any suggestions?

If you cannot afford a mitutoyo then get a decent quality traditional Vernier. Every time I have had a cheap digital one they seem to flatten batteries. My digital mitutoyo at work seems.to always be ready for action.

I have now got a traditional Vernier in my home toolbox and it always works!

I've got a Moore & Wright 0-300mm I'm looking to sell...
Lightly used but could be in budget 🤔

I got a carbon composite* one cheap off Amazon and it's really good. I prefer it to the posher steel ones in the workshop. Make sure you get a depth gauge though, as some don't have them.

*black plastic

What do you want to measure?

A digital Vernier caliper..? No such thing but no doubt others will disagree...

(You can get a Vernier caliper or you can get a digital caliper. The Vernier refers to the scale, not the fact it's a caliper.)

Every time I have had a cheap digital one they seem to flatten batteries. My digital mitutoyo at work seems.to always be ready for action.

El cheapo ones just turn off the display when you press the off button, where as in skookum Japanese ones the μc goes in to power saving sleep mode.

I've taken to popping the battery out of the shite, cheapest available on Farnell calipers my firm furnished me with.

I own a precision engineering company in Surrey. We regularly buy from a company called Cutwel that supply a range of digital calipers named Insize.
Good quality for the money. Never had a problem with them.

+1 for just getting a traditional one. We ditched the digital ones at work as we got fed up of batteries being dead.

Nowt wrong with traditional x whatever. Except imperial, that can get in the sea (only had to do it once and by god it made no damn sense, I'm sure it gets easier the more you do it).

I've got a cheapo Lidl one, its probably 10 years old, turns itself off, and has had one battery change. My work supplied some which are the same with different logos and they would have chosen purely based on price, and they are the same re: auto off and battery life.

PS Halfords sell the same one with very expensive stickers (At least last year they did)

Cutwel that supply a range of digital calipers named Insize.

Tried a few of their bits here but find they lack in refinement. OK for general stuff though..

My Aldi one later quite a while and was good enough for most of the stuff I needed it for. I went with a regular Mitutoyo caliper as the young lads at work couldn't read it so didn't borrow it.

New job works in both metric and imperial so bought a digital Mitutoyo. I'm not works in thou on a regular vernier!

For your money, the Moore and Wright on Amazon for £26.50 will see you ok, you can get Sealy, Oxford and Senator versions of the similar thing for less than £40. Or, if you want to spend an extra £8, you can get a RS pro 6" digital caliper. RS 'used' to get OEMs to rebrand their own products with RS logos years ago. Not sure if it's still the practice, You may well be getting a Mitutoyo or other OEM caliper for a half the price - worth looking in to if you're interested.

This is here I miss my old job, I'll apologise now for waffling, I used to manage T&E and UKAS calibration laboratories globally for the biggest calibration company there is up until a few years ago. Across the laboratories we'd see genuinely hundreds of these per week. Traditional Verniers are great but will need looking after and regular checking as (depending on the quality) the scales aren't always fixed securely and can shift. Easy to do, just zero it and measure something half way along it's scale of a known size unless you can check it with a set of gauge blocks.

They can also be a faff to use if you're trying to check something at an awkward angle or crap light. You can clamp the slide in place when you've taken your measurement and slide it off to read, but there's always the niggling doubt that you didn't tighten it enough and the slide moved a little when you took it off the thing you're measuring - not an issue when it's in your palm.

Again, sorry for waffling

I'd say, get a mechanical non digital one, battery never flat and always works. However, if you're like my pops, who refuses to get a decent set of glasses a digital one might make things easier!

But, how often are you using it, the amount of time you'll save by reading a digital one quicker than taking the few seconds to read a mechanical one and not have to worry about a battery when you go to use it and the ****ing thing is flat!

i hate mechanical ones. i acn get a much better reading from a digital one.

Got mito ones and cheapo ones. tbh not a lot in them. both go out for calibration every 2 years and havent needed anything  yet.

Dial caliper is good for those who do not stock batteries , easy to read quickly , trouble is you need two in the unlikely situation where imperial is needed. They need more looking after though - kept in case or they get debris in the rack teeth , lovely things though worth looking out for if they turn up in front of you in a boot sale or similar.