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Thanks for the recommendation Nate.</div>
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I've heard another good recommendation for the iGaging as well in response to my question. </div>
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Some things are pretty hardy, but I think I would count small skulls (shrews, hummingbirds), and eggs as crushable. But then there are all of the larger things. </div>
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I do like the sound of the increased precision.</div>
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I'll add both to the list to look at.</div>
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cheers,</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I use a SPI digiMax 30-440-2, which is a fiberglass digital caliper. It works really well. I have hated every other pair of fiberglass digital calipers I have ever encountered, but I’ve tested this model
against a set of iGaging Absolute Origin calipers in the museum and have not found major differences in accuracy, though the iGaging model is more precise (to +-.001, if memory serves, whereas the digimax only goes +-.1).
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I would recommend the iGaging Absolute Origin Calipers if you are measuring objects that are not fragile or crushable. They’re nice because you can hook them up to a computer via USB data cable for automated
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:1.0pt; color:white">Hello everyone, Happy almost Friday everyone. My museum is looking at getting a set of digital calipers for measuring mammal objects (but also hopefully useful or other vertebrate groups).
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black">We have a number of manual calipers (SPI Polymid Dial calipers), but we are hoping to get a nice pair of digital calipers for museum use as well.</span></p>
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