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Posted by Gerald Miller on April 23, 2008, 9:11 pm
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On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:00:08 -0700, Larry Jaques
>On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:43:12 -0500, with neither quill nor qualm,
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>>I have an old Millers Falls micrometer that somehow is out of calibration
>>by about a half a thou. How do you adjust these? I've adjusted other
>>types where you grab the sleeve (Starrett) or the end of the thimble
>>(Polish import) with a little spanner wrench, but I can't find any such
>>mechanism on this Millers Falls item. It's been trustworthy for many
>>decades (from former owners and lately me), made in the USA, and
>>wonderfully dinged up and cosmetically worn, so I have an attachment to it.
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>What, you don't have a vise? <silly grin>
Or vise grips?
Gerry :-)}
London, Canada
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