Fair price for a mitutoyo height gage

[Pevehouse]

That is how I’d approach the whole thing. I started out looking for an assortment of snugs for my mishmash of indicators and at the same time looking for a height gauge for my surface plate. The perfect deal for me was this huge assortment of snugs and attachments with a Starrett 14” #254 master bar vernier gauge. The whole thing for $130 buy it now on eBay. Verniers are the ticket IMHO because there is nothing to need calibration or mess up. And most of the herd roaming eBay doesn’t know how to read them so you can get them for a song. Look up price for a new 12” Starrett 254, crazy. It even came with B&S .0005 test indicator with current calibration.

That may be the way I go as well. Don’t need anything fancy, just something to get the job done

 

[C-Bag]

Don’t need anything fancy, just something to get the job done

I guess fancy is relative. I really had no idea what I’d gotten until a buddy remarked I’d gotten the holy grail of height gauges. I don’t think of vernier gauges as fancy but it reads in .0005. Mine was so well used all the paint was gone on the base. Not sanded off, had hands on for so long it was worn off. That’s a LOT of use! As far as functionality it is as good as it gets and when pricing the different attachments and snugs there was hundreds of $$ there. What is crazy is with all those snugs I can still get stumped to find a specific set up. It has definitely gotten the job done.

 

[Ischgl99]

That is how I’d approach the whole thing. I started out looking for an assortment of snugs for my mishmash of indicators and at the same time looking for a height gauge for my surface plate. The perfect deal for me was this huge assortment of snugs and attachments with a Starrett 14” #254 master bar vernier gauge. The whole thing for $130 buy it now on eBay. Verniers are the ticket IMHO because there is nothing to need calibration or mess up. And most of the herd roaming eBay doesn’t know how to read them so you can get them for a song. Look up price for a new 12” Starrett 254, crazy. It even came with B&S .0005 test indicator with current calibration.

Yup, I got my Mitutoyo 6” vernier height gage I think for about $20. That was probably 15 years ago, but still a significant discount to retail. I would like to get a 12 or 18”, I was looking at getting a digital so I would have inch and metric in the same unit, but they go for crazy prices.

 

[Pevehouse]

Yup, I got my Mitutoyo 6” vernier height gage I think for about $20. That was probably 15 years ago, but still a significant discount to retail. I would like to get a 12 or 18”, I was looking at getting a digital so I would have inch and metric in the same unit, but they go for crazy prices.

They do and that would be very nice having both standard and metric in one unit. The prices on these things are ridiculous.

 

[Dabbler]

FWIW a member of this forum found a Pratt D1-4 6" 3J lathe chuck for sale near him. [for those not in the know, these were amongst some of the best chucks available in the 1970s] He offered the deal to forum members, and to to pick it up. Of course I quickly agreed. He could have bought it and resold it at 2-3X what he paid. Like new condition, 2 sets of jaws, original key, no rust, essentially unused.

When I came over to pick it up I had forgotten the price, and tried to give him 50% more than he paid. He told me the right price, even after housing it (and moving it a lot) for nearly a year.

This is the kind of paying it forward that I try to do also.

If I think I need to get more (under exceptional circumstances), then I will state my purchased price, and what I'd like to get for it.

 

[mattthemuppet2]

I have a like new in box 18" vernier that reads both metric and imperial that I need to sell. Kanon brand I think, made in Japan. Shipping might be a bear though, the box is pretty big.

 

[mmcmdl]

I have a like new in box 18" vernier that reads both metric and imperial that I need to sell. Kanon brand I think, made in Japan. Shipping might be a bear though, the box is pretty big.

I have the exact version . Can't ship it .