Things I took for granted, thread gages

[jlw™]

At a former employer, our budget pretty much allowed anything I wanted. To the point I never even knew how much some things costed. Here's an example of one:

 

Leitech Thread Depth Gages

http://www.leitech.com/combi.htm

I passed them out like candy before. Sheesh, just priced a few of these...

 

Any one know of an alternative that is affordable?

[Brian Pallas]

I didn't look at the link. Thread depth gage? Aka a bolt and calipers? Or a thread gage and calipers?

 

 

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[jlw™]

Follow the link. Sometimes you need slightly better than the eyeball method.

[Brian Pallas]

Eyeball? Unless you need to be extremely precise for some reason. Measure your bolt or thread gage, thread it into the part, measure from the top of bolt or thread gage, subtract that measurement from the OAL and that is the thread depth. You'll be within .005 no problem. There aren't any eyeballs involved except for reading the caliper.

 

Those thread depth gages are fancy, and they look nice, but I have never been able to justify their cost when you already have the thread gage and calipers. I saw some in the Emuge catalog a couple years ago and got a quote and said nevermind on that.

 

And if the rationale is the operators can't figure that out I would probably head to greener pastures, just sayin.

 

 

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[jlw™]

You having a bad day or just need to feel smarter? You completely missed the point. Thanks for condescendingly teaching me how to check threads tho, as if it's some black art that only you've figured out. Point was I took stuff for granted as its easy to do. We often don't consider the cost of things if we don't see the price tag.

 

Maybe Shars will make them some day, as I'll not be buying any at that price. I'll use the newly uncovered bolt/caliper method Harry Potter just taught me until I can find some on budget. Some times it's just nice to have the easiest to use tool for a job.

[THEE THAINZ™]

Meh thinks that guy has a bit of an attitude leaning towards looking at me and how great I am. I went to the site and even though I been doing it by the ever so special caliper method so depth gauges looked awsome. Especaiily if your doing production work and need consitstancy in your thread depth and also want to save time by checking form at the same time.

[Redfire427]

Follow the link. Sometimes you need slightly better than the eyeball method.

What link?

 

Carmen

[Brian Pallas]

Yeah that's true. That post did have more attitude than it needed. Sorry. Which the needed amount amount of attitude should have been zero. 

 

So no, I don't know of a cheaper alternative than those gages for what you want to do.

[Watcher]

Follow the link. Sometimes you need slightly better than the eyeball method.

Jlw,

 

There´s another thing you took for granted here: That Brian and everyone knew that you master Hogwarts stuff. With the second post, quoted above, I think that you lead some of us to understand you were looking for a way to measure it.

 

Sorry if I missed it too, but I don´t seen how Brian offended you. In the other hand, I kind of got how you deal with people asking / sharing "stupid" questions / opinions around you. I learned a lot asking / sharing "stupid" questions / opinions. Go to work everyday with a bag of them.

 

By the way: No link so far.

[jlw™]

http://www.leitech.com/combi.htm

 

Don't know what happened to the link, it was there.

 

I wasn't offended, slightly perturbed maybe. I was stating I took it for granted, not looking for a way to measure threads. I'd like to find the same thing in a less expensive brand. To be honest, I rarely have to measure aby more any way but I'd like to order some for the guys who run my parts.

[jlw™]

Here's something else I took for granted and never realized how expensive they are until I priced some:

 

http://www.starrett.com/metrology/metrology-products/precision-measuring-tools/bore-gages/Mechanical-Bore-Micrometers#currentPage=1&displayMode=grid&itemsPerPage=24&sortBy=wp/asc

 

I had a full set of Starrett from 2mm to 300mm. I will spot check features with tight tolerances occasionally just to keep people honest. My manager at the time told me to take them that no one even knew how to read them. Stupid conscience, I couldn't do it.

[Watcher]

Used those Starrets in aerospace parts 10 years ago. Never thought they were so damn expensive.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

_{wHY NOT TO DO SIMPLE GAGE WITH MIN MAX DEPTH fast cheap and easy if you are in mass production .}

_{Otherwise I would go for bolt and caliper myself ,}

_BR

[Müřlıń®]

A bolt and an inside spring caliper to measure distance...

 

 

[guitar]

At a former employer, our budget pretty much allowed anything I wanted. To the point I never even knew how much some things costed. Here's an example of one:

 

Leitech Thread Depth Gages

http://www.leitech.com/combi.htm

I passed them out like candy before. Sheesh, just priced a few of these...

 

Any one know of an alternative that is affordable?

 

 

A shame they are not digital. Our machinists can't read standard mics. 

[htm01]

A shame they are not digital. Our machinists operators can't read standard mics. 

fissed

[themachinist]

fissed

 

since we're playing the pedantic game:

 

noun

1. a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.

 

[The Cathedral]

since we're playing the pedantic game:

 

You would consider someone who can't read vernier style mikes and calipers skilled?

[themachinist]

 

noun

1. a person who operates machinery, especially a skilled operator of machine tools.

 

You would consider someone who can't read vernier style mikes and calipers skilled?

 

 

the definition has two clauses and you're ignoring the first clause completely with that assumption

[The Cathedral]

It was a question, not an assumption; and the pedantry is entirely irrelevant because you know and I know that in our field, the jargon we use doesn't follow the Mariam-Webster definition. Could I call them machinists? Yes. Would I call them machinists? No.

[themachinist]

Just stirrin' the pot.

[The Cathedral]

Our freshest operators come in with a PhD in machining: Push here, Dummy!