This came UPS today. Shars Aventor 12" digital caliper. They are designed in the USA by Shars and made in China.
It has a large LCD display that I can read without reading glasses. It uses a cr2032 battery that I have lots of and claims a lifetime of 1 year. It remembers the zero position which Shars calls DPS (Definitive Position Sensor) and returns to the last reading when shut off and turned back on. Does instant inch to metric to fraction display change. Aluminum thumb wheel on a plastic trunion. It is smooth and the jaws come together with no gaps, held up to a light you can not see any light between the jaws. No play on the movable jaw. If my Mitutoyo 6 inch calipers are a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 for feel and smooth operation this caliper rates a 9.5. No tight spots through the complete range of 0-12". I checked it with mic standards from 1" to 6" and it read right on the money for each. I used gauge blocks stacked but not wrung for 10" and 12" checks and once again it read right on the money. I ordered it on the Shars Ebay store. It was $67.95 U.S. plus shipping. They shipped it very fast. All in all I am very pleased with this purchase. It is not a Mitutoyo but is excellent for the price. Any surface irregularities in the photo's are from oil on my fingers. It has a nicely done brushed finish. The back has a fraction to decimal table.
Roy
It has a large LCD display that I can read without reading glasses. It uses a cr2032 battery that I have lots of and claims a lifetime of 1 year. It remembers the zero position which Shars calls DPS (Definitive Position Sensor) and returns to the last reading when shut off and turned back on. Does instant inch to metric to fraction display change. Aluminum thumb wheel on a plastic trunion. It is smooth and the jaws come together with no gaps, held up to a light you can not see any light between the jaws. No play on the movable jaw. If my Mitutoyo 6 inch calipers are a 10 on a scale of 1 to 10 for feel and smooth operation this caliper rates a 9.5. No tight spots through the complete range of 0-12". I checked it with mic standards from 1" to 6" and it read right on the money for each. I used gauge blocks stacked but not wrung for 10" and 12" checks and once again it read right on the money. I ordered it on the Shars Ebay store. It was $67.95 U.S. plus shipping. They shipped it very fast. All in all I am very pleased with this purchase. It is not a Mitutoyo but is excellent for the price. Any surface irregularities in the photo's are from oil on my fingers. It has a nicely done brushed finish. The back has a fraction to decimal table.
Roy
