Dial Indicators

[FTRinTexas]

Currently using the Redding Case Gage tool with a 1" diameter 0.001" dial. Is this a good dial? Are there more accurate dial to consider for measuring turned necks?

 

[B Nettesheim]

Tubing micrometer is what you want

 

[Jdne5b]

K&M modified tube micrometer, or another version of tube mic.

 

[KY_Windage]

What is the difference between your fired brass and your loaded rounds (neck o.d., I mean)? I'm guessing it a lot more than what you are worrying about with turning. I turn all new brass, but I'm not sure why, LOL.

I am happy measuring w. t. with my cheap digital caliper, no more often than I measure. Just don't turn down past the mfgr's lowest point in the neck. Just get them as even as you can without making the thinnest point any thinner.

 

[jackson1]

A dial indicator will quickly show the variation on your necks. Could possibly make a thickness measurement using your indicator and automotive type feeler gauges. Better yet a tubing mic. Don't have much use for a dial caliper to measure neck thickness.

 

[dnellans]

Anytime Tools Tube Micrometer Reloading Ball Spherical Anvil Case Thickness 0-1"/0.0001": Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

Anytime Tools Tube Micrometer Reloading Ball Spherical Anvil Case Thickness 0-1"/0.0001": Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

www.amazon.com

as accurate and repeatable as my $250+ tube mic - i’d buy 3 more of these if i had a need...

and put it on a stand, don’t try and hold it for repeatability.

 

[dnellans]

Anytime Tools Tube Micrometer Reloading Ball Spherical Anvil Case Thickness 0-1"/0.0001": Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

Anytime Tools Tube Micrometer Reloading Ball Spherical Anvil Case Thickness 0-1"/0.0001": Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific

www.amazon.com

as accurate and repeatable as my $250+ tube mic - i’d buy 3 more of these if i had a need... and put it on a stand, don’t try and hold it for repeatability.

calipers are not appropriate for something you’re trying to measure in tenths.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

calipers are not appropriate for something you’re trying to measure in tenths.

But, but the digital ones read in tenths!

 

[riflewoman]

But, but the digital ones read in tenths!

But that doesn’t mean that the “tenth” reading is accurate. My $25 Harbor Freight digital caliper reads to a “half thou”. But like any caliper it isn’t that accurate.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

But that doesn’t mean that the “tenth” reading is accurate. My $25 Harbor Freight digital caliper reads to a “half thou”. But like any caliper it isn’t that accurate.

I see my sarcasm didnt stick