sfriedberg
Diamond
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2010
- Location
- Oregon, USA
I'm considering the purchase of an 18" height gage. I am very familiar with the Mitutoyo mechanical dial style (models 192-15x) and its many competent clones. Looks like Mitutoyo has two alternate lines, standard Digimatic (models 192-63x-10) and HDS Digimatic (models 570-31x). The standard Digimatic has a higher resolution range than the HDS Digimatic. The HDS Digimatic is significantly the least expensive of the three lines of height gages.
I don't need the 2 tenths mode of the standard Digimatic. Heck, when scribing lines for layout, I hardly need 5 tenths, considering the width of a scribe line. Are there any issues with the HDS Digimatic that I should be aware of? A Google search turned up lots of ads but very few review comments by actual users.
Mechanical robustness? Is the single column design any more prone to getting knocked out of square or producing cosine error? Accuracy? Looks like the 18" models of both Digimatic lines are accurate to 2 thou, same as the mechanical dial type.
Why is the HDS Digimatic half the price of the standard Digimatic? Other than the higher resolution mode, I don't understand what I would be giving up.
I don't need the 2 tenths mode of the standard Digimatic. Heck, when scribing lines for layout, I hardly need 5 tenths, considering the width of a scribe line. Are there any issues with the HDS Digimatic that I should be aware of? A Google search turned up lots of ads but very few review comments by actual users.
Mechanical robustness? Is the single column design any more prone to getting knocked out of square or producing cosine error? Accuracy? Looks like the 18" models of both Digimatic lines are accurate to 2 thou, same as the mechanical dial type.
Why is the HDS Digimatic half the price of the standard Digimatic? Other than the higher resolution mode, I don't understand what I would be giving up.