Hi Tapio,
I've used one of these for the last 9 months or so and its really quite good at the price - I just stretched the spring a little so it was still in tension but doesn't now crush anything. I also put a bit of silicone grease on the internal sliding parts and that makes everyhting smoother too. You can then use your thumb to further control pressure.
Rgds, Tony
--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Tapio Linkosalo <tapio.linkosalo@...> wrote:
>
> Found a new neat toy from HobbyKing, a digital thickness gauge. Darn
> cheap, so I bought one just to test it out. Seems to work pretty good.
> The zero setting is typically about 0.01mm on negative, but as this is
> regular, it is easy to take into account. Besides, even though the
> resolution of the gauge is 0.01mm, the accuracy is (according to the
> sticker glued on top of older text in the package) 0.1mm. Seems to be
> better, but anyway which meter would be accurate to the resolution anyway?
>
> There is one shortcoming, that needs modification: the standard spring
> closing the claws is way too strong, it squeezes rubber and crashes thin
> balsa strips. Luckily, the gauge can be quite easily taken apart (the
> back keeps in place with thin plastic pins), and then the spring can be
> replaced. The original spring is 0.25mm wire, for the start I replaced
> it with a rubber loop, but maybe a 0.15mm spring might be better.
>
> I recall reading in the comments of the unit that some were not as good
> as others, but the unit I got is quite ok.
>
> Ah yes, a link:
> http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=9091#
>
>
>
> -Tapio-
>
Received on Mon Oct 19 2009 - 06:49:33 CEST