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Giant Calipers

8171/3/7 These Giant Calipers have a maple frame with a dial indicator mounted at the opening to the throat to measure the thickness of a soundboard and similar applications. The construction allows to one to measure behind ribs and bridges, if the throat depth permits. The hand held model has a throat depth of 9”. The bench mounted model has a throat depth of 16”. If it is used hand held, it distorts the measurement due to the weight of the tool. However, in the convertible model a brace can be screwed on to limit the throat depth to 9” and stiffening the frame. The caliper frames are available separately for use with your own dial indicator.

Giant Calipers

Hand Held Giant Caliper

(bench mounted model is similar, but with deeper throat and stand)

Phone: 541-552-0989

Toll free:1-800-442-6038 (USA only)

Fax: 541-488-5846

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Dial Indicator and Indicator Stand

8175 Dial Indicator used in our Giant Calipers, 0”-1” in .001” increments

8176 Dial Indicator Base with magnetic base. When the  dial indicator is mounted in the stand it can be used to measure blade run outs on table saws, blade alignment on jointers, etc.

Dial Indicator
Dial Indicator Stand

Giant Calipers and Dial Indicators

Cat No

Description

List Price

Special

#8171
#8172
#8173
#8174
#8177
#8178
#8175
#8176

Giant Caliper, hand held
Giant Caliper, frame only
Giant Caliper, bench mounted
Giant Caliper , bench mounted, frame only
Giant Caliper, convertible
Giant Caliper, convertible, frame only
Dial Indicator
Dial Indicator Base

$90.00
$50.00
$135.00
$90.00
$165.00
$120.00
$60.00
$60.00

$60.00
$33.50
$90.00
$60.00
$110.00
$80.00
$40.00
$40.00