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For people that don’t know this is not how you use Calipers

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Next time, chose a smarter client.

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They don’t exist.

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Bold claim, also very true

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A normal set of calipers has 3 basic modes of measuring things: inside, outside, and depth. It is amazing to me how many people in this thread don’t know at least one of those or use them wrong.

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Tbf I use mine daily and had to pause a second thinking what would be the third mode. (never use it to measure depth)

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This just tells me calipers should have 2 measuring bars on them, so gaps and other inside edges can be measured like this (maybe this already exists, idak)

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That’s what the two prongs at the top are for. Flip the caliper upside down, use the prongs to measure the inside dimension, and read it off the same scale.

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Ah cool, didn’t notice those. Cheers

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“Caliper jaws for inside measurement—I thought of that. Turned out it already existed, but I arrived at it independently."

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