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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RetiredTater" data-source="post: 4206079" data-attributes="member: 32190">I bought a set of Cabela's Digital Calipers way way back in 2005, and until I brought them to work and someone lost the battery cover, they worked great.  (still on my workbench, but not used because of the battery cover and can't keep contact well enough with tape.)  I changed the batteries every couple of years, and would still use them.  I bought a set from Amazon for about $25, and my kid about had a fit because I was using them on my reloading bench when he saw them a year and a half later. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075QYH914/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a> At home, I now use a set of Mitutoyo because my son bought them for me Christmas because that is what he uses at work (CNC Machinist) and he thought I should have better tools after he learned that sometimes you get what you pay for thanks to the differences in his tools and mine when we were working on his truck.  At work, we have a set of Westward, and they are pretty good.  I have never tried to calibrate against true known measurements, but they work.  Think they were between the $20 and $40 range.</blockquote>