{"id":8202,"date":"2006-04-23T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-23T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/to-avoid-mad-display\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:24","slug":"to-avoid-mad-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/04\/23\/to-avoid-mad-display\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;to avoid mad display&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_049_.jpg\" height=480 width=640><br \/>Harbor Freight Digital Caliper<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I feel embarrassed. I bought a digital caliper from Harbor Freight Tools. It was $15.99, and it passed tests like zeroing it, QUICKLY sliding it half-way opening it, reading the measurement, zeroing it again, then snapping it shut. And it still read the inverse of the other reading. It also does metric and standard, and appears&#8230; Not bad. At least not for a $16 caliper.<\/p>\n<p>There are some engrish gems in the &#8216;operating instructions&#8217;, though. For example, &#8220;Clean caliper bar with dry cotton fabrics before using to avoid mad display&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;Never apply any electric pressure on any part of the caliper and never use an electric pen for fear of damaging its chip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The original reason I went there was to get some slatwall-type plastic sorting bins to put electronic parts into. I managed to get what I wanted. A small metal stand with 15 plastic bins, for US$20. A bit high, but not too bad.<\/p>\n<p>Time to go clean up my work bench area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harbor Freight Digital Caliper I feel embarrassed. I bought a digital caliper from Harbor Freight Tools. It was $15.99, and it passed tests like zeroing it, QUICKLY sliding it half-way opening it, reading the measurement, zeroing it again, then snapping it shut. And it still read the inverse of the other reading. It also does\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13427,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8202\/revisions\/13427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}