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Calibrating a mitutoyo digital height gauge?

jordan6679

Plastic
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Feb 14, 2014
I picked up a new granite and mitutoyo 192-656 0-18" Height gauge. I cleaned it well and polished the ways a bit, I'm not sure the age but it's very clean with no abuse. I checked it out with a 4 and 10" mitutoyo ID Mic rod, it is way out of calibration. At 4", it was .004 high. And at 10" it was .0105 high. Can I adjust this at home, is there something mechanical I can service or is it in the encoder?

Thanks for any input.

Tom

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CalG

Diamond
Joined
Dec 30, 2008
Location
Vt USA
I picked up a new granite and mitutoyo 192-656 0-18" Height gauge. I cleaned it well and polished the ways a bit, I'm not sure the age but it's very clean with no abuse. I checked it out with a 4 and 10" mitutoyo ID Mic rod, it is way out of calibration. At 4", it was .004 high. And at 10" it was .0105 high. Can I adjust this at home, is there something mechanical I can service or is it in the encoder?

Thanks for any input.



Tom

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On Mits stand alone readers, there are DIP switches on the board to provide correction for linear errors. Perhaps there is a similar feature on your guage head. You need to find the literature for the unit. It will tell all ;-)
 

sfriedberg

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Oct 14, 2010
Location
Oregon, USA
Wow, I never considered that problem (scaling error) for the digital height gages. I've got a two-beam mechanical (the type with separate up and down counters) and that particular problem is one it inherently can't have.
 

jordan6679

Plastic
Joined
Feb 14, 2014
I tore it to the frame and gave a deep cleaning. The teeth were caked deep with shop grime, I cleaned them out with a brush several times until every tooth was perfect. I reassembled and lubed it with some dry moly lube. Checking calibration with the same 4 and 10" rods, it read the same. The encoder was clean and smooth. Again, at 4" it was .0045 high, at 10" .0105 high. I don't understand where the error is coming from. I didn't see any kind of linear scaling adjustment on the circuit board, but it does have a readout outlet, and possibly another outlet for calibration?

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