NEIKO 01407A Electronic Digital Caliper Measuring Tool, 0 - 6 Inches Stainless Steel Construction with Large LCD Screen Quick Change Button for Inch Fraction Millimeter Conversions, Digital Caliper Measuring Tool

This review is for NEIKO 01407A Electronic Digital Caliper | 0-6 Inches | Stainless Steel Construction with Large LCD Screen | Quick Change Button for Inch/Fraction/Millimeter Conversions. Let me start of by saying that if you need a gauge that is highly accurate and highly precise, you are going to need to shell out some good coin for something like a Mitutoyos. I picked up this NEIKO caliper, because I wanted something that was quality and not expensive. This caliper has been excellent so far. It is stainless steel, which was a must. I want it to last, and I wanted something more precise/accurate than plastic. I also wanted something digital for ease of use. This gauge is extremely easy to use. You can scroll through millimeters, inches, and fractions of inches. The display is also easy to read. This also comes with a nice storage case, one battery installed, and a spare battery. The owner's manual fits inside the case, and there is room for a spare battery in the case. The only thing I can say remotely negative is that the installed battery arrived dead, but the spare battery was good. I've already used this multiple times around the house for various things, and I wish I had bought one of these sooner. It has been extremely helpful for multiple projects.

Compared several calipers before buying this one. Works really well and holds its "zero". Like the ability to measure in both standard and metric. Good carrying case as well. Very satisfied with this tool and was well priced.

The Neiko Electronic Digital caliper is accurate and easy to use for measuring any thing that requires precise accuracy. The digital display is clear and makes it simple to read measurements without guessing. It feels well made for the price and has held up great with regular light use. Switching between measurement units is quick and convenient. However, the battery often loses connection, causing the display to flicker or reset unexpectedly. Reseating the battery usually fixes the issue, but it can be annoying when you’re in the middle of a project. Overall, it’s a good value and performs well most of the time, but the battery connection problem keeps it from earning a full five stars.

I've had this Neiko tool for 3 years and have been very happy with the features of the caliper for my occasional use. It has all of the common standard measurements units at the push of a button. It can be zero-ed anywhere along the length. Although I can't comment of the precision of the absolute accuracy, measurements are repeatable. Easily perform inside measurements. Mine came with an extra battery, which was a nice touch.

This is a solid choice, I use it in the field for work regularly. I work in agricultural product development, always dealing with equipment calibration and data collection in dirty field conditions. I like that you can choose multiple units (metric or imperial), it's intuitive to use, never had any issues. I also appreciate the ability to use the gradations on the caliper itself if you ever run out of battery for some reason, it just works like an old school caliper.

Very impressed with these so far. They seem to maintain accuracy when using quickly. They have memory as well so it recalls what position the caliper is in.

I’m disappointed in this. I spent a lot of time researching and reading reviews of different calipers and landed on this one. Seemed like great value for the price and I grabbed it. I began using it and really enjoyed how smooth the sliding aspect of it was. Seemed accurate and then it started declining the more I used it. After I use it, I’d power it off and put it in its case, then a couple days or a week or so later I go to use it and it starts displaying random numbers and wouldn’t respond to the any of the button inputs. I’d remove the battery to see if there was something internal to the caliper that needed a reset, and this worked at the beginning, but I’ll tell you, I shouldn’t have to do that to use the tool. At any rate, that worked for a bit, but like clockwork, I’d put it away working, come back to it some time later, and it starts tweaking out. Then came recently and the battery trick stopped working. I even let it sit without a battery overnight and it’s still tweaking out with no ability to work at all. The Good: It’s smooth and it measures in analog just fine. Looks like a caliper. Looks and feels expensive. The Bad: It’s hardly worked more than it has worked.

Honestly for the low price of $25 I didn't expect much out of these calipers. I figured they would be cheaply made with way to much play in the jaws or slide key... But they aren't! I couldn't believe how well built it was. There was absolutely no play in the slide even at full extension! I've had mitutoyos that had more slop. The measurements are dead on, it claims accuracy at +/- .001 and they weren't kidding. I used a .010 gage block as a reference measurement and the neiko calipers measured it at .0100 I mean if that's not dead on I don't know what is. The fractional readings are also an absolute bonus! finally no more wasting time having to convert a decimal value to a fractional number. Anyway with all those positives I can still point out a few negatives that should be mentioned... The slide itself has no play, with that being said it's so tight in the slot that you can feel it kind of dragging or just not sliding smoothly cause of the friction build up... No problem! Oil the slide with a few drops of air oil, clock oil, or a light gear oil. Do that once a week or monthly pending how often you use them and that slide moves like butter. The next negative is the buttons, they don't always register when you depress them... Again it's not really that big of a deal but if it doesn't work 100% everytime then regardless it's still a problem. The last and final issue is probably the biggest and this is going to really depend on the application your using these for... But the jaw tips are fairly thick, significantly thicker than the jaws on a set of mitutoyo this does limit your ability to get those jaws into super tight spaces. For instance if you need to determine the shank size on a small bolt say like a 1/4 - 20 the neiko calipers jaw tips will not fit between those threads. So in hindsight, that really does limit effectiveness. If you need that kind of flexibility and absolute precision obviously mitutoyo is the way to go... If you don't save yourself about $175 and buy a set of Neiko digital calipers! Last and final opinion... I was reading through several of the previous comments and alot of people seemed to be complaining about screen issues or zeroing issues.... Did yall ever happen to think "oh well maybe the battery is dead or dying"??? These calipers come with a battery already installed, and who knows how long they were sitting on a shelf before being shipped out. Batteries don't last forever folks! My best advice is when you get the calipers delivered first thing you need to do is just simply change out the battery with a new one. They take LR44 and will also accept SR44 batteries. So buy a set of neiko calipers today, go get you a pack of LR44 batteries tomorrow, stare out the window, and wait for that Amazon truck to roll on up!

Very nicely made Caliper. The added bonus of it showing fractions has already been a handy feature I have used a few times. The bottom line is this, if it became non-functional through my own carelessness, I would buy another no-question HOWEVER..... after two months of use I am finding the two font sized readout very annoying, Otherwise it has worked well but I do not understand why it was decided to make the second, third and fourth numbers after the decimal half the size . If someone only needs it for coarse measurement then having the first two numbers predominate makes sense but I personally find the two sized readout less than Ideal and I am looking at other calipers that show the readout all in full size

Received goods as described, shipping is per planned arrive date and a well packed shipment

The materiality is great, it looks and feels like a quality item however I have owned it for approximately 6 months and in that time I've used it perhaps a dozen times. It is stored indoors in a steel work bench inside of its hard carry case. Now the digital display is glitching and does not maintain a reading. Edit: turns out a battery replacement solved the issue

Absolut schlechte Qualität, direkt zurück geschickt

No les mentiré, tengo un vernier mucho mas caro que es mejor, pero el precio de este vernier es muy bueno y las diferencias por el precio realmente hacen que este vernier sea ideal para aquellos estudiantes o profesionistas que quieren invertir en un instrumento de medición mas preciso con poca inversión. Tiene algo muy bueno en su display que es un conversor de unidades metricas a unidades standart, y te lo da en fracciones, por lo que es muy útil cuando quieres saber las equivalencias en brocas, etc. Su mismo instructivo menciona que no debes mover muy rápido el vernier para medir, porque se pierde y descalibra. Esto no es una desventaja si solo lo ocupas una vez cada cierto tiempo, pero si lo es si trabajas en una industria donde deberás medir una pieza cada 10s o menos y tienes que medir con rapidez y precisión. Una de las cosas malas, es que gasta mas batería que mi otro vernier, el cual me costo 10 veces mas que este, pero cambiar la batería es fácil y no son tan caras. Ademas de que la cambiaras 1 vez cada medio año si lo usas regularmente o quizá hasta te dure mas tiempo. El cambio lo haces en unos 30s. Excelente Vernier a excelente precio, si eres estudiante y lo utilizas definitivamente debes comprar este.