Warning: Don't waste $200 on a cheap tool presetter like I did

I bought a no-name tool presetter off Amazon for $200 last March. It was off by 0.005 on the first three tools I checked, and after a week it was giving random readings. I ended up sending it back and buying a used Haimer for $450 from a guy in Detroit. Has anyone else had bad luck with cheap presetters or did I just get a lemon?

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angelacooper15d ago

Man, that's rough. It's like that saying about buying cheap tools twice really holds up. I've noticed a pattern where the "budget" version of anything precision-related just ends up being a gamble, whether it's a caliper or even a kitchen scale.

thea_knight15d ago

Had a buddy who bought the cheapest digital caliper he could find online to measure some bearing races. First one showed up with calibration drift so bad it was off by nearly half a millimeter by day two. He ended up returning it and just borrowing my Mitutoyo for the rest of the job, which basically proved your whole point.