Hey all,
I need a optical comparator for my home office. Small, as lightweight as possible, and hopefully significantly less than $5K.
This needs to have a DRO with some basic geometric capability, like hole diameter, radius, angle. I dont care about integrating with a CNC, printing screen shots, edge detection, or anything like that.
I'll be measuring small gears that are .020" thick teeth, with tiny root radius. Its very hard to do with calipers.
Any suggestions ? Im looking on ebay, and see lots of used equipment in various conditions.
I found a Mitutoyo PH14LS w/QM-Data 200 dro that looks like it would fit the bill.
I also took a trip down to MSC the other day and checked out their Fowler bench top unit for $3200. What a piece of garbage that thing was, Im shocked anyone buys anything from Fowler at this point! It was maybe worth $500 but would be useless for any sort of accuracy which defeats the point.
Any other suggestions highly appreciated !
Paul
I need a optical comparator for my home office. Small, as lightweight as possible, and hopefully significantly less than $5K.
This needs to have a DRO with some basic geometric capability, like hole diameter, radius, angle. I dont care about integrating with a CNC, printing screen shots, edge detection, or anything like that.
I'll be measuring small gears that are .020" thick teeth, with tiny root radius. Its very hard to do with calipers.
Any suggestions ? Im looking on ebay, and see lots of used equipment in various conditions.
I found a Mitutoyo PH14LS w/QM-Data 200 dro that looks like it would fit the bill.
I also took a trip down to MSC the other day and checked out their Fowler bench top unit for $3200. What a piece of garbage that thing was, Im shocked anyone buys anything from Fowler at this point! It was maybe worth $500 but would be useless for any sort of accuracy which defeats the point.
Any other suggestions highly appreciated !
Paul