What else can be done with caliper

[Niki]

Good day

Yesterday, I've seen a digital caliper for 25 Zloty that are - according to yesterday's exchange rate - £5½ and I could not hold myself...(yes, I know that I have 4 dial calipers but....you know... )

I liked very much the possibility to "Zero" it at any distance and lock it.

And - as usual - every new tool that I buy, must go first through "modification" to improve it...and so I did.

I'm using the caliper for measuring wood thickness, width (up to 150mm), to set the table saw blade height, to set the fence / blade distance (again, up to 150mm), to set the router bit height and bit / fence distance on the router table and, to measure the depth (of mortise)...

I would like to ask you, what else can be done with caliper

Thanks
niki

 

[WellsWood]

If you have a bandsaw, you can use it as a tension meter

 

[RobertMP]

I have an axminster compound slide vice for my bench drill and have mounted 2 cheap digital verniers to it. Using the 'digital readouts' I can drill holes for scrapping out mortices or at precise pitches etc repeatedly and accurately. I can also use it for drilling at offsets by positioning the drill bit above the corner of a work piece and zeroing the calipers.

I have a 300 mm digital caliper and find I use that a lot as a simple marking gauge as it scratches wood easily and i don't have to check the setting .

 

[Niki]

Thank you

Mark
I don't have band saw...yet...but you scared me, 15,000 PSI ??? it looks more dangerous than the table saw

Robert
I've never thought to mark with the aid of caliper...great idea.

Regards
niki

 

[rapsod]

You can use it to clean ear wax. It is deep enough.