LandscapePenguin
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- Jun 13, 2019
I picked up what I believed to be a Starrett 199Z off of eBay a while back and just noticed that it seems to be different than all of the other 199s that I've seen pictures of. Mine has the following markings embossed into the top plastic cover:
THE L.S. STARRETT CO. ATHOL, MASS. U.S.A. (above the vial)
1 DIVISION = .0001 IN./1 FOOT (below the vial)
Every other picture I've seen of 199 levels shows the precision to be .0005"/foot. I was a bit concerned that I may have purchased a counterfeit so I emailed Starrett and asked them but they didn't have an answer for me. They said that over their 180 year lifespan that a lot of stuff went unrecorded and it may have been built as a special many years ago.
I filled in the embossed lettering with a white paint stick right after I got the level but i certainly didn't change the 5 to a 1.
Has anyone else ever seen a 199 like this?
THE L.S. STARRETT CO. ATHOL, MASS. U.S.A. (above the vial)
1 DIVISION = .0001 IN./1 FOOT (below the vial)
Every other picture I've seen of 199 levels shows the precision to be .0005"/foot. I was a bit concerned that I may have purchased a counterfeit so I emailed Starrett and asked them but they didn't have an answer for me. They said that over their 180 year lifespan that a lot of stuff went unrecorded and it may have been built as a special many years ago.
I filled in the embossed lettering with a white paint stick right after I got the level but i certainly didn't change the 5 to a 1.
Has anyone else ever seen a 199 like this?