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I finally had to retire my Starrett 6" caliper after many years of use. The jaws started showing wear. It would show using gage blocks to check accuracy. The bad thing was, they hardly saw any shop use. I mainly used them for reverse engineering parts back in the day in the engineering office. I gone through a Mitutoyo digital pair, which did great until it started loosing about .008" per inch when measuring!....snip...... I find my Starrett 6” dial calipers the most handy of all my measuring tools. Maybe think of first getting a dial caliper…Dave.
I have bought used mics off of eBay in the past. Have been burned a couple of times. Most of the buys were ok, a number of them were questionable. The ones questionable were a couple of Lufkin and B & S mics that were repainted to look nice. Still using them! I've manage to put together a very nice of 0-6" Starrett mics that I had a wooden storage box salvage from a dumpster dive. They are my go-to mics only if there is any question about a measurement from my other mics.