Re: The centre support bearing for a type-44 quattro found

[ikessel@worldnet.att.net]

Wallace White wrote:

> Personally, I find my $3 plastic vernier calipers to be up to the job
> for most car repairs. A tenth of a millimeter is plenty of precision
> (though they're not accurate to every mark) for sizing up that bolt that
> I need to go buy a socket for.

Absolutely correct, for car repair needs the 0.1mm precision is
adequate. I also have two vernier calipers, the 150mm and the 200mm
ones. They are from the old world, metric-only, and have the all metal
construction. The 0.1 and 0.05 precision respectively. 
The only drawback that they have - the don't allow you to switch between
Metric and SAE reading.
For a totally inch-ignorant guy like myself the digital caliper is a
cat's meow coz I can measure in mm, hit the button and get the inch
reading if I need to find a close hose/sheetmetal/drill bit/whatever
American-made substitute.

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Igor Kessel
Two turbo quattros