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Nick, I have been looking for a good sonic cleaner. Do you have a link to that Hornady one please?

Odd Job wrote:Nick, I have been looking for a good sonic cleaner. Do you have a link to that Hornady one please?

Unfortunately looks like I bagged the last one they had:



But this should take you to it:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0095I6FC0

If you want to connect the data port to a PC then you will need a multiplexer. The Mitutoyo ones are horrifically overpriced (I use about 20 at work and one is always needing replaced somewhere at £400 a go!!!).

These are good replacements though and much more flexible being run of USB!

http://trestik.cz/en/kategorie-multiplexery-dumx

I've started using theirs at work at half the price of the Mitutoyo ones and they are good, quick delivery (a week or so) and a few months in not a single failure, where as the Mitutoyo ones seem to last about 3 years it would seem (all be it with daily use and quite a few plug in/outs. :)

Do the mituyo calipers have a port you can pop open? Most cheaper ones do and you can make an interface with a microcontroller, even adding Bluetooth.

Demonic69 wrote:Do the mituyo calipers have a port you can pop open? Most cheaper ones do and you can make an interface with a microcontroller, even adding Bluetooth.

Not all models do but the one I have does, IIRC it's the 500-171-[23]0 that does versus the 500-196-[23]0 that don't. Bluetooth is an interesting idea - dare say I could come up with something to read the port data.

billgatese30 wrote:If you want to connect the data port to a PC then you will need a multiplexer. The Mitutoyo ones are horrifically overpriced (I use about 20 at work and one is always needing replaced somewhere at £400 a go!!!).

These are good replacements though and much more flexible being run of USB!

http://trestik.cz/en/kategorie-multiplexery-dumx

I've started using theirs at work at half the price of the Mitutoyo ones and they are good, quick delivery (a week or so) and a few months in not a single failure, where as the Mitutoyo ones seem to last about 3 years it would seem (all be it with daily use and quite a few plug in/outs. :)

Cheers BillGatese30, that is some very useful info - I'm currently reading up on these.

There are a lot of people using arduino or pic microcontrollers to read them. A digispark or pro mini with an hc-06 Bluetooth module should get you going :-)