Caliper repair question

[trapperdan]

In an attempt to clean and organize my reloading bench I accidentally knocked the rack that holds my calipers off the bench. It hit the floor hard. Only 3 out of 7 survived unscathed.
My prized “shock resistant” Mitutoyo dial caliper ended up with the pointer facing parallel to the handle at .025 when closed. Other than sending it in for repair, does anyone know of a simple fix for this or is there one?
One more stupid mistake like this and I will own the whole set.
Dan

 

[rogn]

In an attempt to clean and organize my reloading bench I accidentally knocked the rack that holds my calipers off the bench. It hit the floor hard. Only 3 out of 7 survived unscathed.
My prized “shock resistant” Mitutoyo dial caliper ended up with the pointer facing parallel to the handle at .025 when closed. Other than sending it in for repair, does anyone know of a simple fix for this or is there one?
One more stupid mistake like this and I will own the whole set.
Dan

Do you have a manual? Running the calliper thru its range and checking for binding or "twitching" might be informative. Can the dial be rotated and "zeroed"?

 

[trapperdan]

Running it full length back and forth I found a real rough spot betwen 51/2 and 6". At one point it did jump back to streaight up 0 but when checked with pin gages it would be about .005 off one way or the other each time I closed it. After back and forth over the rough spot several more times the needle jumped to .076. I moved the dial to 0 and now it's spot on. Cleaned as suggested and checked with various pin gages several times and seems to be working fine. I'll just never open it enough to hit that rough spot again.
Thanks for the help.
Dan

 

[JimSC]

I have had to do this on my Starrets, not that hard to fix.

edit noticed that you solved the issue, but I will leave the video up in case someone ever needs it

 

[bozo699]

I have had to do this on my Starrets, not that hard to fix.

edit noticed that you solved the issue, but I will leave the video up in case someone ever needs it

The chap really should wash his hands and clean his fingernails lol
Thanks for the link
Wayne

 

[338 dude]

In an attempt to clean and organize my reloading bench I accidentally knocked the rack that holds my calipers off the bench. It hit the floor hard. Only 3 out of 7 survived unscathed.
My prized “shock resistant” Mitutoyo dial caliper ended up with the pointer facing parallel to the handle at .025 when closed. Other than sending it in for repair, does anyone know of a simple fix for this or is there one?
One more stupid mistake like this and I will own the whole set.
Dan

Replace them how many times do repairs not go right and if you cannot trust them afterwards you just wasted even more money

 

[Dusty Stevens]

The chap really should wash his hands and clean his fingernails lol
Thanks for the link
Wayne

He did, right before the video he ate a sammich.