Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Lengthening Digital Calipers

In a message dated 06/09/2000 8:52:17 AM Hawaiian Standard Time,
jmelson@... writes:

<< It sounds like you are referring to the ANCIENT Bridgeport-Starrett
measuring
system, which used gage rods and a dial indicator for measuring distance

of table motion. This was before Vericheck (I think that's the name)
invented
the optical readout system that Bridgeport sold. >>


Jon,

I ain't that old. I saw the unit in a catalog many years ago yes. I have
seen them for sale in used machine tool places. So I know they exist... I
thought Vericheck was the system that assures checks don't go rubber ;)

Peter
THRD, Inc.