How is your Mitutoyo QM height gage going? Went to see one at the local dealer and it looks good.
I'm looking to purchase a height gage. Had a Mahs CX-1 but that stopped working. Was old. Now looking at the Mitutoyo QM, the Tesa Hite, the Tesa Magna and the Sylvac Hi-Cal. Only need about 350mm travel. From what I have researched so far, the QM has air cushion but no motorised carriage, the Sylvac is opposite this, the Tesa Hite is like the QM and the Magna doesn't have either. Magna is less accurate but more robust due to magnetic strip rather than encoder. QM and Tesa Hite are about the same accuracy levels. QM takes AA batteries which is nice.
Have read threads but not many on these gages.
Thank you.
Actually I meant to say I had a Mahr, not a Mahs. One other point is that, while not the most accurate way of doing things, I would like the option to put a dial/test indicator on the electronic height gauge carriage to measure the squareness of a part. The QM's perpendicularity spec is better than the others, and on the Sylvac you can't put a test indicator from what I can tell. As I said, not the main game, but when you're spending this sort of money on a measuring instrument you want to have as much versatility as you can. So I was leaning towards the Mitutoyo QM. The one thing that I did notice which was a bit annoying on the QM was that when sweeping circles, you have to press enter when the low and high points are reached, then enter again I think to get the diameter. The Tesa units don't require this much button pressing for circle diameters, and the Sylvac is even less again from the Fowler/Sylvac videos. Price wise, the Magna is the lowest cost with the other three similar. Also the Sylvac is about 6kg with the other three mid twenty kg's. I can see why the Sylvac doesn't need air cushion.