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For people that don’t know this is not how you use Calipers

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    4·
    2 years ago

    I want to wholeheartedly believe the caliper has the size the customer wants and the pipe is bigger, therefore inappropriate. I’ve never met anyone who would use a caliper this way, I’ve seen people trying to eyeball it or use it as a ruler but not like this

  • FleetingTit@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    A normal set of calipers has 3 basic modes of measuring things: inside, outside, and depth. It is amazing to me how many people in this thread don’t know at least one of those or use them wrong.

    • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years ago

      Tbf people my age and younger (barely below 1/2 the population) typically don’t use them in most careers or even learn about calipers in High School. My work was the first place that properly taught me how to measure internal diameter and depth.

    • Black616Angel@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Tbf I use mine daily and had to pause a second thinking what would be the third mode. (never use it to measure depth)

  • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I am a certified blithering idiot and even I feel like a high society intellectual compared to this picture.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    I remember when I first applied for a job in a fabrication/machine shop. One of the questions in the interview was “Do you know how to read a tape measure‽” followed by “demonstrate that you can use a tape measure” along with some other fun ones like “what is the difference between these two pieces of material” (one was aluminum, the other stainless) and other such things. I remember being surprised/disappointed that there were grown people who couldn’t read a tape measure.

    I’ve worked in machine shops and drafting offices for years now, and I’m no longer surprised by people who can’t use basic measuring tools. Still disappointed though.

  • knorke3@lemm.ee
    1·
    2 years ago

    please close and reverse the tool, then grip it tightly and drive it into the skull of the complaining customer

  • PeutMieuxFaire@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    Wow! That’s a creative way to use a caliper.
    That’s why teaching children about metrology basics is so important.

  • Nurloc@feddit.nu
    0·
    2 years ago

    Showed this pic to my co workers (steelworkers/blacksmiths) and only the old guys knew what was funny about the pic… Gen z think that calipers are toy guns…