Inexpensive Digital Calipers to Modify for DRO (Digital Readout) Applications

Dec 30, 2010 Stuart Discuss

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We first mentioned these inexpensive digital calipers over a year ago, and it seems that people have been quite pleased with their performance. In addition to these calipers’ reasonable accuracy and repeatability, they’re great to modify and add to jigs and power tools as inexpensive DRO (digital readout) gauges.

In case you haven’t seen it yet, here’s Ben’s tutuorial on how to modify a digital caliper for use as a digital drill press stop gauge.

6-inch Digital Caliper with Extra Batteries & Case via Amazon

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