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Digital Calipers?

For work I use an 8" Mitutoyo.

For RC stuff I have a cheap 6" digital from Advance Auto Parts. It works fine for building crawlers where +/- 0.010 is good enough. Besides, mostly I use them to scribe sheet metal and tube and I ain't gonna spend a lot of money on something I'm just going to end up breaking the points off of.
 
We use to be a cnc job shop, we have made parts either direct or through 1st and 2nd tier suppliers for most good and some bad high tech companies. Its common here in the silicon valley where we originated, there was a very strong base of good machining companies here at one time. its not like it was that's for sure.

We have cycled through the industries as they have come and go, from disc drive, microwave communications, extreme atmosphere robotics for semiconductor and underwater, aerospace, medical and consumer, not to mention lots of R&D, which we saw many projects evolve that are now common house hold or industrial products from the start.

Applied Materials-Kamtsu, Boeing, Motorola, United Defense, Lam Research, apple, Perkins Elmer, Dell, broad com, Samsung, Seagate, AMD. Remec microwave, space systems Loral, Brooks Automation, KLA Tencor, Novelus, PRI automation, Stryker endoscopy, abaxis, just to rattle a few off the top of my head. We still have a good size portfolio pf parts we made for these guys... the best part is getting invited into there places and talking to the buyers and engineers, and their setups and layouts....

Then in 97 get got heavy into paint ball while maintaining, our industrial customers. A Top rank player met us and we started working with him to build paintball markers, we did all of the design, prototyping, and production, to finished sub assemblies. we designed and build over 10 platforms for him, and built all of the parts for over 50,000 pro level markers, and held top rank pro players on the worlds podium for years. then our customer got greedy. and started beating us up against china and robbed us of our brand name we created "Ripper" Milling.. that when vanquish began in about 2005. We became official in 2007, and began the swtich from paintball to RC to get away from that business. We are now surpassing him 6 years later, we feel a well earned feat. now to infinity and beyond !
 

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tom@vp said:
We use to be a cnc job shop, we have made parts either direct or through 1st and 2nd tier suppliers for most good and some bad high tech companies. Its common here in the silicon valley where we originated, there was a very strong base of good machining companies here at one time. its not like it was that's for sure.

We have cycled through the industries as they have come and go, from disc drive, microwave communications, extreme atmosphere robotics for semiconductor and underwater, aerospace, medical and consumer, not to mention lots of R&D, which we saw many projects evolve that are now common house hold or industrial products from the start.

Applied Materials-Kamtsu, Boeing, Motorola, United Defense, Lam Research, apple, Perkins Elmer, Dell, broad com, Samsung, Seagate, AMD. Remec microwave, space systems Loral, Brooks Automation, KLA Tencor, Novelus, PRI automation, Stryker endoscopy, abaxis, just to rattle a few off the top of my head. We still have a good size portfolio pf parts we made for these guys... the best part is getting invited into there places and talking to the buyers and engineers, and their setups and layouts....

Then in 97 get got heavy into paint ball while maintaining, our industrial customers. A Top rank player met us and we started working with him to build paintball markers, we did all of the design, prototyping, and production, to finished sub assemblies. we designed and build over 10 platforms for him, and built all of the parts for over 50,000 pro level markers, and held top rank pro players on the worlds podium for years. then our customer got greedy. and started beating us up against china and robbed us of our brand name we created "Ripper" Milling.. that when vanquish began in about 2005. We became official in 2007, and began the swtich from paintball to RC to get away from that business. We are now surpassing him 6 years later, we feel a well earned feat. now to infinity and beyond !
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Congrats on your survival and success. "thumbsup"

Here in CO machine shops thrived when the data storage industry (hard drive, tape, etc) was big. There was lots of prototype and production work to go around. Today it's a tough business to be in but some shops are doing well. Our company does all it's manufacturing in the US so we try to keep the local shops busy.
 
tom@vp said:
here in the silicon valley where we originated, there was a very strong base of good machining companies here at one time.

We have cycled through the industries as they have come and go, from disc drive, microwave communications, extreme atmosphere robotics for semiconductor and underwater, aerospace, medical and consumer, not to mention lots of R&D, which we saw many projects evolve that are now common house hold or industrial products from the start.

Applied Materials-Kamtsu, Boeing, Motorola, United Defense, Lam Research, apple, Perkins Elmer, Dell, broad com, Samsung, Seagate, AMD. Remec microwave, space systems Loral, Brooks Automation, KLA Tencor, Novelus, PRI automation, Stryker endoscopy, abaxis, just to rattle a few off the top of my head. We still have a good size portfolio pf parts we made for these guys... the best part is getting invited into there places and talking to the buyers and engineers, and their setups and layouts....

that when vanquish began in about 2005. We became official in 2007, and began the swtich from paintball to RC to get away from that business. We are now surpassing him 6 years later, we feel a well earned feat. now to infinity and beyond !
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When you say silicon valley and the other info, I can just imagine the precision work you guys have done over the years:shock:
You have very good industrial experience and exposure.
Now I know why VP products are aesthetically beautiful.
 
Tom, that's quite a ride you guys have taken! I used to dump a case or two of paint though a vert feed autococker a couple times a month. I can't run around like that anymore...
 
JatoTheRipper said:
I use the metal 6" digitcal calipers from Harbor Freight. I tested them against some Mitutoyos at work and they're pretty close. I don't see needing more accuracy than these can provide for this hobby.

Digital Calipers - Save on these 6 Inch Digital Calipers
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I agree, I have 2 sets of these and really like them, I'm not sure if all calipers do this but, they read out sae in decimal and fractional. They work great for the price. :mrgreen:
 
Bought the Kobalt calipers a while back. Didn't like them for some reason...but don't remember why.
 
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