VINTAGE PEACOCK CALIPER

Made in Japan

With this is a fine hardened stainless steel dial caliper.

It is in excellent condition and works perfectly

It has a couple of small scratches on the dial cover.

It has the capacity to measure up to 6”

The instrument itself is about 9” long and 3.5” at the widest point on the jaws.

There are three adjustments places on the calipers one at the outer base of the dial, on the inner side of the dial, the third at the base of the lower caliper jaw.

Dial calipers have “a small, precise gear rack drives a pointer on a circular dial, allowing direct reading without the need to read a Vernier scale. Typically, the pointer rotates once every inch, tenth of an inch, or 1 millimeter. This measurement must be added to the coarse whole inches read from the slide. The dial is usually arranged to be rotatable beneath the pointer, allowing for "differential" measurements (the measuring of the difference in size between two objects, or the setting of the dial using a master object and subsequently being able to read directly the plus-or-minus variance in size of subsequent objects relative to the master object). The slide of a dial caliper can usually be locked at a setting using a small lever or screw; this allows simple go/no-go checks of part sizes.” –

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