Thread: Random Questions about Gage Blocks

With metric gauge block sets, the 83 piece ones start at 1.005mm and then jump to 1.01mm.. The 87 piece sets start at 1.001mm and go through to 1.009mm before going to 0.01mm, but miss out a few further along being 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9mm, you cannot make that stack height either with an 87 piece..

Whether that makes any difference to you you have to decide...

Originally Posted by rodm

That's a coincidence as I received a 122 piece set of metric gauge blocks today. The wooden case and contents present well and each gauge is wrapped in oiled tissue paper. Ray has listed the seller in his first post Onlineseller and the delivered price was $200AUD.
On face value I gauge them to be of unusually good quality without being gouged on price.


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Mine came in the same box as that, just the layout is different.

Dave

There's an imperial gauge block set on eBay made in England and its calibrated.
http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com.au/vi...id=29048271243

Originally Posted by .RC.

With metric gauge block sets, the 83 piece ones start at 1.005mm and then jump to 1.01mm.. The 87 piece sets start at 1.001mm and go through to 1.009mm before going to 0.01mm, but miss out a few further along being 1.6, 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9mm, you cannot make that stack height either with an 87 piece..

Whether that makes any difference to you you have to decide...

Ahh, almost a Frobenius number problem but with gauge blocks.

Yeah, its a quirk that 81 pc imperial sets cover the range nicely but almost 50% more required to parse the milimeter.