Quick Tip: How to measure and read a dial caliper

[@charliesybert2683]

I love how well this video is put together it's so unbelievably helpful

[@FatScottie33]

Fasho!

[@basketcas3717]

When I got into reloading I was always intimidated by the dial caliper so I just used a digital. Over time I became more interested in the dial so I purchased one. Love it even more than the digital now.

[@DangerousDaveyBoy]

You just showed us how to read a dial caliper. Pure and simple. I watched another video from someone else that put out a confusing 30 minute video and showed them writing down numbers on paper and calculating it with formulas. Lol. Wow. Thanks for the video!! And thanks for being straight up with no BS like the other guys.

[@TheColosiss]

Thank you Brownells for your instructional videos.

[@jamesharber7820]

EXCELLENT explanation! I watched another video on this subject this morning, and it was Greek to me. Thank you.

[@wboquist]

Great, no nonsense presentation of information.

[@MwSama]

absolutely i have a quiz on how to use this and the teacher gave a long presentation and this only like 2min :)))))))))))))))))

[@bearly1727]

FIRST TIME i ACTUALLY UNDERSTOOD HOW THEY ARE READ. Thank You!

[@michaelpyles7865]

That made absolute perfect sense to me. Thank you for the simple and easy to digest info there, this was really helpful. At a job I started not too long ago at a metal cutting and distribution facility they have been training me to run one of the saws and on the orders that have really small cut tolerance margins (like 5/1000 of an inch) we have to use calipers to check our parts after every cut. My boss was trying to explain to me how to read a dial caliper and he was making zero sense. Anyway very informative!

[@GetRhythm2011]

Thanks Steve. I have to periodically revisit this or similarly descriptive videos on reading an analog caliper if I don't use it enough. I appreciate your uploading a clear, helpful video.

[@terrym.6829]

Great explanation! Thank you. I really like using the traditional dial calipers that my father gave me. He was a machinist for 40 years. They keep my brain thinking and I definitely need that! Lol

[@rockd8946]

Have for for nearly 20 years. Very helpful. Only 1/2 wsy knew how read it.

[@macculp981]

Terrific, straightforward description. Thanks so much for this video.

[@slimhavoc4290]

This is the second video I watched about this and both were awesome and helped me understand a little bit more about reading these. I start a new job tonight and I have to learn how to do this. Great vid my guy

[@thermonuclearwarfare]

You should include the numerical representation of one of your identified measurements using the dial caliper so that the audience is able to record this type of information accurately.

[@DangerousDaveyBoy]

165 thousandths is literally just 0.165. 1 inch and 15 thousandths is 1.015. 100 thousandths is 0.1 (0.100)

[@cutweldngrind]

I have a12" digital one like yours and today our boss brought in some Starrets with dials and no one knew how to use them. Calibration papers showed their accuracy but I was trying to read a .875" just using dial. Thanks for the video and can't wait for noon to give it another shot.

[@alexmacias4228]

Thank you! You explained it much better!

[@Ferd1921]

Great video.

[@katiemwah]

Lol I have to use these in school And I dont like listening to my teacher Helped a lot lol

[@minskmade]

great video..nicely shot footage..informative.

[@nahniIslam]

Great video thank you so much

[@mr.nobody68]

I showed this to my dad (Retired Tool & Die maker with mostly Aerospace and Defense experience). He said to tell you that you did a nice job but, calipers aren't as accurate as an inside micrometer, outside micrometer, depth gage, bore gage, etc. But I would argue that this one tool replaces several hundred dollars of not thousands of dollars worth of single purpose tools lol

[@austins.2495]

I just grew a couple extra chest hairs from watching this

[@amaurynegron4280]

Exelente teaching , the best among the others , in KZbin , Gracias-Thank you Amigo!!! @ 74 I dot not know how to read a rule - its not Okay-Abril 14-Miercoles 2021 Bronx, N.Y.

[@richarderamirez5909]

Great explanation!

[@Lecandotnet]

Thank you for teach us how to use a good micrometer, I viewed 3 video clips but no one show when a device was bad, my micrometer will not pull more than 0.25 inch long, it stopped at 0.25" and stucked there. Can you show me how to work on it after i unlocked it by turned the top screw beside the dial counterclockwise. Thank you.

[@MartinFluteCompany]

Most helpful, thank you!

[@rizalgarcia2194]

hi could you show me how to use the caliper in finding the center rear and front sights?

[@bigjohnkyle1]

Fantastic

[@kevinsay2492]

Thank you so much!👍

[@TrueAfricanHero]

THANK YOU! I nearly killed myself trying to measure with these.

[@macheteolivera4529]

I never knew what it was for my dad had it laying around the house

[@Ketan1694]

In India, mostly metric system is used, dial verniers are of Mitutoyo make mostly!

[@coreymerrill3257]

I had the rcbs rock chucker supreme single stage loading kit , purchased with the new release of speer loading manual#14 .the dial caliper had a vernier scale on top. How do we compensate for it's loss on digital calipers? (And new dial calipers by the look of those .)

[@TINTEDPR1VACY]

Thank you

[@johnlane7503]

really informative

[@onmyworkbench7000]

The batteries don't go DEAD in dial calipers

[@futurewarlord99]

0:15 why does that metal part look exactly like a memory stone from No Man's Sky?

[@sagnik25]

Nice❤️

[@kenwilhite6088]

Dial caliper and digital caliper are the common terms used by machinists

[@robertmccully2792]

i wish they had a mode that read in 1/16 grads. only or 1/32 grads and so on.. not all drill bits for instance are exactly 1/16... so your not sure where you are in scale.

[@davidtrevi2914]

Succinct. Thank you!

[@techmouse.]

But what is the gap near the base of the jaws for? And why are the jaws tapered at the tips?

[@2hopskipjump2]

My guess would be to measure something in an awkward position and also something tapered?

[@Euragone68]

I bought the Hornady Steel Dial over the Digital because of all the poor reviews for them....

[@mafosa8519]

i dont trust those digital ones!..

[@lazarusreddog1087]

When you decide to make a video showing a small printed numbered scale, for gawd's sake use a camera that can focus on small print.

[@matthewalford2762]

FYI.... Just get digital calipers... Problem solved!

[@kc5hgv]

Sometimes that is the problem the tools think for us and gives us the data on those displays. Like in school years ago we never had calculators in class until I went into my Electronics Training School. When I say years ago I mean in 1980 the year I Graduated from High School.

[@AK99581]

Shorty454 It's not like reading a dial caliper requires that much thinking. Yes, you should know how to read one if you're doing any kind of precision work with metal. But the digitals are quicker, and now many of them come with a fraction setting, so you don't even need to convert the decimal to the fraction anymore. Some people might think that's lazy, but it's a time saver. Work smarter not harder.

[@danielvictoria1725]

Why why why inches there are so many issues. All the world is metric. To many lives are lost because they mix imperial and metric

[@Get_Splooshed]

Daniel Victoria, then buy a metric dial caliper.

[@somethingtrulyhorrifying]

@@Get_Splooshed you just told that guy to drink bleach

[@GetRhythm2011]

@@somethingtrulyhorrifying LOL!

[@leftcoaster67]

Because US is the #1 ammo and firearms sales. And everything is in imperial units, like grains in a bullet, and case measurements in inches. Ironically if you go to Hodgdon Reloading data they do list measurements in metric.

[@gregbumgardner3006]

They are just as exact as a digital, plus a dial models has no dang battery that doesnt last long.