View Full Version : major deal in Ohio!
nagantguy
09-05-2016, 08:18 PM
went to the gun show swap meet dog trails at the ohio state fair grounds this weekend, in a box of random tools and parts I found a Fowler caliper, looked nice so I took it home for.$5 new battery and it works just fine! found it online and couldn't believe the price, on sale.for.$290!
http://store.gaging.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=3134&gclid=CMjwodm6-c4CFQ6qaQodzS0BZw
LUCKYDAWG13
09-05-2016, 08:22 PM
man thats a great deal
slim1836
09-05-2016, 08:41 PM
WOW, that's all I can say.
Slim
Negster
09-05-2016, 08:44 PM
Does it say what county it was made? Fowler will put there name on anything from high end to china junk.
bullet maker 57
09-06-2016, 08:05 AM
Cool find.
Walter Laich
09-07-2016, 11:20 AM
good job. Way too accurate for me--I've been known to use fingers as 'units of measure'
wonderwolf
09-07-2016, 11:39 PM
Nice score! I'm from that area (recently moved) and have attended those shows for nearly as long as I can remember (used to be held the next big town over to the east). Always found a great deal of some sort, the older I get (just turned 30) the more exciting the deals are though if younger me were watching he would be asking why the heck I'm buying old cast iron for $5 and other boring things.
jmorris
09-08-2016, 04:50 PM
Fowler has stuff across the price spectrum. Like this $17 set.
http://www.ultrarev.com/Fowler-High-Precision-74-101-175-Electronic-Caliper-Poly-Cal-English-Metric-Fraction.html?gclid=CMGEnMnSgM8CFUMvgQodoCEMxg
Still fine for the reloading room.
ulav8r
09-09-2016, 12:05 AM
Fowler has stuff across the price spectrum. Like this $17 set.
http://www.ultrarev.com/Fowler-High-Precision-74-101-175-Electronic-Caliper-Poly-Cal-English-Metric-Fraction.html?gclid=CMGEnMnSgM8CFUMvgQodoCEMxg
Still fine for the reloading room. +/- .008" is a toy, not a precision tool. A Chinese dial caliper of about the same price should be accurate to less than .001. http://www.grizzly.com/products/6-Dial-Caliper/G9256 doesn't specify accuracy but I've worked in plants where Chinese calipers passed calibration several times with accuracy to within .0004".
jmorris
09-09-2016, 07:22 AM
I didn't read the add but yes that's about useless.
These are often on sale for $10.
http://t.harborfreight.com/6-inch-digital-caliper-47257.html?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.c om%2F
They are suitable for any job one would use calipers for.
http://i664.photobucket.com/albums/vv5/qvideo/IMG_20150104_133015_996-1_zpsbabb46c4.jpg
ole 5 hole group
09-09-2016, 09:16 AM
Ya, anytime you verify the caliper's reliability readings with a Mitutoyo micrometer bar and the reading is spot-on, means you're within 0.0001", that's probably good enough for most reloaders.;-)
jmorris
09-10-2016, 08:55 AM
Well, they only have a resolution of .0005 and how you are using them has a lot to do wit it as well. A good reason to have standards, to be able to get a feel for them but yes .001+\- doesn't really matter in the reloading world.
No Blue
09-13-2016, 03:36 PM
I got 3, 6" dial calipers and a 6" HF electro; using the standards from the 2,3,4" Mitituyo Combi-mics, all of them are within half a thou. How to build accurate enough measuring tools for not much money is well known. It's more the marketing weasels that want to make massive margins that really produce the **** stuff....you can make decent money making serviceable tools.
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