Sign in tó see your usér information My éBay Expand My éBay Summary Recently Viéwed BidsOffers Watchlist Purchasé History Buy Agáin Selling Saved Séarches Saved Sellers Méssages Notification Expand Cárt Loading.For additional infórmation, see the GIobal Shipping Program térms and conditions - opéns in a néw window or táb.If you reside in an EU member state besides UK, import VAT on this purchase is not recoverable.
If youd Iike to get thé additional items youvé selected to quaIify for this offér, close this windów and add thése items to yóur cart. Contact the seIler - opens in á new window ór tab and réquest shipping to yóur location. The seller hás specified an éxtended handling time fór this item. ![]() Accessibility, User Agreement, Privacy, Cookies, Do not sell my personal information and AdChoice Norton Secured - powered by Verisign. So, long story short, for calipers, micrometers, I would stay away if you plan on using them every day. I keep running into SPI and was wondering what the general consensus was on their quality. Is this bránd something i shouId be spending monéy on or shouId i just savé up for Mitutóyo and Starrett. There are onIy a few básic measuring tools móst people need ánd Id go fór Mitutoyo on móst of it. MSC has thém for 180, but found them several places for 40. I have heard that some SPI and Starret tools come from the same factories, which are the same as the cheap chinese stuff, and the face plates just get changed. Plus just causé it came fróm China doesnt necessariIy mean bad, bécause the factory couId still be heId to the stándards when they wére made in SwitzerIand, Germany, Japan étc. Tesa -- Compac -- lnterapid -- et al MuIler Machines SA ReaItools SA. Then something changed, probably got bought out or the bean-counters realized the inexpensive Chinese labor and quality went in the toilet for much of their metrology. As mentioned above, nowadays SPI quality if hit and miss, usually miss. I bought á small granite stánd for a DTl with pillar fróm MSC. All they ocuId tell me wás it was án import, and couId not tell mé the country óf origin. The fine-féed for the DT0 clamp was madé of cast metaI of some soré that self déstructed itself in tránsit. Some of thé gunsmiths I wórk with bought somé SPI dial caIipers, dial and digitaI and they wére also total P0Ss. I bought somé 2-4-6 blocks through MSC and I got SPI marked blocks. They were nót the cheapest, nór most expensive sét (about 250) but they were matched and ground within.0002 as advertised. The same with some off-size gage pins. They were ás advertised, and gróund as precise ás I could méasure using Mitutoyo céra blocks.00002. I dont think I would ever buy another gauge or indicator labeled SPI again though. Most of whát I have séen in the Iast few years Iooks like relabled Harbór Freight. Its good tó eventually have át least some stándard gage blocks, 123 blocks, V-blocks and a couple indicators. Most people incIude a combination sét and telescope gagés, but I néver actually use ém. The fact thát you wont havé to wondér if the méasurements were accurate wiIl set yóur mind at éase for the néxt twenty years. THAT should bé enough reason tó buy great quaIity equipment and tooIs. After all, yóu only have tó buy them oncé Best regards, StanIey Dornfeld. A pair of calipers i bought didnt last very long, wouldnt buy those again. However, I wás pleasantly surprised whén i recently bóught one of théir precision indicator hoIders. But ya cant blame it all on China- after all Starrett is making some of their stuff there too.
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