Spud
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2006
- Location
- Brookfield, Wisconsin
Just bought this yesterday
Been wanting a Tesa Hite 400 or 700 (not Magna) for about a year now, as it is the one I loved using at Tech College. At college, they have Starrett and Mits eletronic height gages but I prefered the Tesa.
At college this is the steps I follow for measuring a part:
Turn on machine
Use handwheel to move the probe up and down per the arrows on the screen. Is this called clearing the scale?
Then when prompted by the screen I set the datum plane, which 90% of the time is the surface of the granite surface plate.
Every now and then I would use a gage block to check to see if the Tesa was accurate.
The Tesa Hite 700s I just bought does not come with the power cord, probe, probe holder and the calibration setting piece seen below.
TESA Setting Piece for MICRO-HITE - 00760236 - Penn Tool Co., Inc
So here are my questions:
* Do I need the calibration setting piece? Couldn't I just use a gage block to check that the gage is accurate?
* Do I need to have a Calibration lab calibrate it? There is a local Lab that I have used for calibrating several of my instruments.
* Can I take the gage to the Lab, or do they need to calibrate the gage at its end-user location? Does calibration on the gage need to be done as it sits on the specific granite surface plate I intend on using?
Been wanting a Tesa Hite 400 or 700 (not Magna) for about a year now, as it is the one I loved using at Tech College. At college, they have Starrett and Mits eletronic height gages but I prefered the Tesa.
At college this is the steps I follow for measuring a part:
Turn on machine
Use handwheel to move the probe up and down per the arrows on the screen. Is this called clearing the scale?
Then when prompted by the screen I set the datum plane, which 90% of the time is the surface of the granite surface plate.
Every now and then I would use a gage block to check to see if the Tesa was accurate.
The Tesa Hite 700s I just bought does not come with the power cord, probe, probe holder and the calibration setting piece seen below.
TESA Setting Piece for MICRO-HITE - 00760236 - Penn Tool Co., Inc
So here are my questions:
* Do I need the calibration setting piece? Couldn't I just use a gage block to check that the gage is accurate?
* Do I need to have a Calibration lab calibrate it? There is a local Lab that I have used for calibrating several of my instruments.
* Can I take the gage to the Lab, or do they need to calibrate the gage at its end-user location? Does calibration on the gage need to be done as it sits on the specific granite surface plate I intend on using?