Desao
Plastic
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2007
- Location
- Syracuse, Indiana
I used to teach for a community college the machining and CNC program for them. I moved and was asked by a local college to teach the same program. I am looking at suggesting on having the college order decent and cheap hand held measuring equipment. I have looked up, before posting, and read many posts with the same/similar questions. every one moves to suggesting Mitutoyo (or similar), and do not get me wrong I have Mitutoyo and pre-hexagon Starett mics and calipers in my tool box, and really like using them. but I am looking as lower cost because these are students that have never seen tools like these or used them.
The previous college I worked for mostly used SPI and I was very happy with them. the only issues I had was when student dropped or misused them. The college I will be working for, very few of the administration has done anything near to this field of employment so trying to sell them on Mitutoyo will be difficult, and I might be having to talk them into a complete rework of the program and equipment, and what little tooling they have looks as if they did an internet search and purchased the lowest price tools they could find. I have not even heard of the brands that I saw there, nor could I find the brands in an internet search, and they do not have many any way.
So back to my question... Does the great community have suggestions for dial calipers and vernier mics that wold be suitable to be used to teach a new generation of machinist? (and remember that with students they may not be treated(as I have learned the hard way) as the rest of us may treat our tools. I am currently leaning toward SPI just because of the experience of what I used at the previous college.
(and thank you in advance for any and all assistance!)
The previous college I worked for mostly used SPI and I was very happy with them. the only issues I had was when student dropped or misused them. The college I will be working for, very few of the administration has done anything near to this field of employment so trying to sell them on Mitutoyo will be difficult, and I might be having to talk them into a complete rework of the program and equipment, and what little tooling they have looks as if they did an internet search and purchased the lowest price tools they could find. I have not even heard of the brands that I saw there, nor could I find the brands in an internet search, and they do not have many any way.
So back to my question... Does the great community have suggestions for dial calipers and vernier mics that wold be suitable to be used to teach a new generation of machinist? (and remember that with students they may not be treated(as I have learned the hard way) as the rest of us may treat our tools. I am currently leaning toward SPI just because of the experience of what I used at the previous college.
(and thank you in advance for any and all assistance!)