KELIBRON Reading a dial caliper
Reading a dial caliper: a 46-second reenactment recorded in the KELIBRON 3D lab, with English captions. The steps below are the captions in order, and you can do the same measurement yourself in the lab.
What happens in the video
- 0:00 Reading a dial caliper
- 0:05 A zero error is already in the gauge - measure anyway.
- 0:10 The dial reads higher than the part really is - is the part actually oversize?
- 0:16 Look again: jaws closed, and the needle is not on 0.
- 0:21 Turn the bezel until the needle sits on 0 - the zero error is absorbed.
- 0:26 One full turn of the needle is exactly 1 mm on the beam.
- 0:33 Whole millimetres on the beam, the rest on the dial: divisions times 0.01 mm.
In the course
- Caliper fundamentals · Reading a dial caliper — Read a dial caliper: millimetres on the beam plus hundredths on the dial.
