Mr Pete, you never fail make me laugh. Yesterday I was watching one of your videos and couldn’t stop laughing. Thank you for being a sanctuary of sanity in a world gone mad.
When you spoke about taking Latin in High School in one of your older videos it really just reminded me how alien the culture of education in America has become in just your lifetime. I graduated in 2017 and the biggest shift I see when I look at the education of yesteryear and education now is that education today has abandoned literacy as being the foundation for all other learning. I would say over 3/4s of American education today is focused on teaching everything that is NOT how to read and write. This is a travesty, because literacy has and always will be the distinguishing line between the educated and uneducated, going back to the birth of civilization and moving into the future no matter what some degree from a modern university says. With literacy you can learn anything, do anything, be anything. No wonder there are so many "educated" people today who have such a poor grasp of the English language and shake their fist at the world that they can't achieve success despite having one of those nice looking degrees. And I know this because I've taken college courses with these people and I've read their work. The ability of the average high school graduate to express themselves through the written word is infantile. So I remain an uneducated literate that works on a fishing boat rather than join the hordes of educated illiterates 😂; make more money this way too, lol! Thanks for the great videos as always mrpete!
Mr. Pete have you ever given any thought of doing a series of oral history about you life and your family? Not for the public but for future generations of you family. It would be truly a gift for them and a great legacy. Thanks!
I had enough money to get into a similar "different type show" once. I was probably about the same age as you, or maybe younger. It pretty much left a lasting impression on me considering my young age at the time.
Yes, in the $0.50 sideshow, the hooded 'Moon Man' with a horrible skin condition would take off the hood for an extra .025 after those not paying left the tent. The saddest facial expression on a human anyone could ever have is what I got left with, along with with certainty that no matter the situation, it can always be worse. Around 1965ish.
Interesting story about the carnival. Sometimes I wish things were like they used to be, and sometimes I don't. Makes you wonder what we do today that won't be allowed in the future.
Mr Pete. You are the man! Ive had a Starrett set of these for quite some time without a good use for them. I did not know the reversal trick with those. As a master electrician I layout holes to be punched often. And often without accuracy to my standards. You just changed that. Thank you - Tim from Massachusetts
Mr. Pete, you are a class act, here, as always. Your description of the carnival and "freak show" is very accurate -- just like I remember, and was worth the entire video. I too, learned about the hermaphrodite condition in an unusual way. It was rumored that a certain person in our small town was endowed with "both parts," and my curiosity began to soar. While I never met the individual in question, I did do as much study on the subject as I could, and gained a basic understanding of the "problem." Otherwise, the video was very good. I enjoy using my hermaph. caliper (bo't on E-bay) for various things. Keep informing AND entertaining us. You are loved and appreciated. Bob in Florida
as a cabinetmaker and trim carpenter, the tight hinge pin and fairly rugged design works well scribing crown and base moulding, and other coped intersections on the job. These fit in the tool pouch and don't need much fussing to maintain accuracy.
I remember seeing a function for this tool demonstrated. I thought at that time, I better get one of those. I haven't seen a used one for sale since. Now I can't remember why I thought it would be helpful. Your video reminds me that I don't own any. I intend to begin looking and shopping so my grandsons have something else that Grandpa never used to inherit.
@@mrpete222you just don't seem to be a hermaphrodite aware gentleman Lyle. You don't have that weakness of the wrist characteristic that many tend to associate with a combination platter, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for the lesson on calipers. It's good to touch on the basics now and then. Loved the carnival story. Yeah, it was great to be ten way back when...
Interesting explanation and memories of the past. Yes, in my mind, teens. I sat in the wood behind the drive-in and watched a movie. I was chased off about 20 minutes after I had settled in. Harmless fun.
We went to the drive-in, theater in a 59 Oldsmobile with a gigantic trunk. One driving and three in the trunk never did get caught. I don’t think they cared, because selling popcorn and treats is what it is all about.
Hi Mr. Pete, I normally use a hermaphrodite caliper on the lathe to make a mark on a spinning piece of round stock so that, I can turn up to a shoulder. When I first got out of high school, I got a job in a production sheet metal shop. I always had an interest in precision machining, though. I used to haunt the tool auctions on the weekends. I picked up a Brown & Sharpe hermaphrodite at one. I told my boss about it on Monday and he looked at me funny and chuckled inappropriately. I thought, "What's with this guy?" Well this guy was all about sex in every form you could imagine. So, I went home and looked up the word hermaphrodite and all became clear.
Great video, we always called them Jenny Legs, or Odd Legs here in Englnd, Moore and Wright were quality items . Your extra credit I enjoyed, I never tire listening to you talking about what you did as a kid, and your early life as a shop teacher, always very interesting and amusing, thanks My Pete, take care, Dave
Hermaphrodite calipers are the cat's pajamas for doing rapid layout work at the bench. Placing the point in the etched mark of the desired dimension on the steel rule and pulling the leg up to the end of the rule allows you to set the caliper very quickly. As Lyle demonstrates in the video, hermaphrodite calipers will quickly show an error when scribing a center line. If you have 2 parallel lines either the caliper was set incorrectly or the width of the work was not measured correctly. Cheers from NC/USA
I bought a thrown together lot of tools in a bag a few years ago... The total sum of one mans pride in a nasty bag. All tools are engraved Russell Odette in cursive. Inside where 3 Hermaphrodites plus everything a machinist circa 1945 would need, including a Aduels machinist and tool makers handy book. I've since cleaned all the tools, repaired the book as best I can and placed everything in a Sears machinist box. I use the book all the time, even just for twilight time reading. Thank you, Mr. Pete.
Thanks for the Anatomy of calipers lesson. Very humorous. Somehow I was reminded of my trip to the auto parts store the other day. I asked for a quart of tranny fluid and they told me to go to the Bud Light section at the beer distributor next door.
Great story about the carnival! It reminds me of great stories about the Midwest carnivals back in the day. It makes me regret that I was born in Brooklyn NY and missed out on those things. May you live forever Mr. Pete and keep bringing us these wonderful stories and shop tidbits!
Think here in the UK they were described as odd leg calipers. That was the only term i ever heard them called. As they say you learn something new every day. Thanks Mr Pete.
Hello Lyle, I had to chuckle at your comments about the carnival. We had shows like this when I was a boy growing up in New South Wales (Australia). I recall the odd leg caliper being called a Jenny caliper. Could sometimes use one, will have to keep my eye out for one at swap meets.
Thanks Mr Pete. I know two men that are probably close to your age, when they were not quite 16, they went to the local circus and got in to the hoochie-coocchie show. The girls took a liking to the boys and let them hang around. It was the last day of the season and they were going back to Florida for the winter. They told the boys that they could run off with the circus and stay with them. The boys made it as far as North Carolina before their parents had the sheriff apprehend the boys and keep them in jail until they could pick them up.
Mr. Pete, once again great video. You should do more definitions, or origins on words. Always enjoy your videos very educational, it like I am back in high school even college shop classes, one of the best time of my life. Keep up the excellent videos.
same circus carnival came to grayslake ill in 1960s i bet a dime. always a memory/ animals/ tents/ side shows/ cotton candy , days of barnum and bailey entertainment.
I decided that I needed a hermaphrodite caliper a few years ago and purchased one like the smaller straight leg caliper you showed. I don't think I have actually used it except to try it out soon after acquiring it! I am about ten years your junior and never did see the side shows. I don't know if they were gone by the time I was old enough to attend carnivals or we were steered away from such entertainment by our parents. We lived far from town and didn't get to fairs or carnivals very often and were closely supervised.
I must confess, I very seldom use that caliper myself. Luckily, the carnivals and circuses normally set up two or three blocks from my house. so we went to all of them And we were totally unsupervised, L O L
Great video Mr Pete...Also, Archie Bunker's definition of Hermaphrodite: Too much of each and not enough of either lol. I don't think I would have ever wanted to "see the goods" at age ten or now!🤣
I remember playing on some antique amusements at the shows (what we called the fair). They had Victorian games where you could win a cigarette or some gum. There was also a seaside amusement arcade which had been built in the 1920's and still had a few original fittings. There was an automata which consisted of a metal elephant moving, on tracks, through a jungle scene, collecting a box as it went. At the end it would tip out the box which had a cheap toy and a fortune. No hermaphrodites, just a monkey who you could get your photo taken with.
Hello Lyle, thanks again for another informative and entertaining video. I believe that the straight leg caliper you asked about is called a keyhole caliper. Don't ask me how I know this. I went through my old Starrett, Lufkin and Brown & Sharpe catalogs and could not find a listing for this caliper.
Oh my. So sad we have to tread so carefully as not to offend the .001%. Anyway, very useful instruments in the machine shop. I remember the "shows" at the carnivals!
The etymology of words is something that's being lost. No one has any care to learn anything about the component languages that make up English. It's no wonder so many people these days are willing to accept the constant redefining of words to match whatever is ideologically compatible.
Thank you for sharing that, I couldn’t agree more. I have always loved the derivation of words. I learned that in latin class. No one really cares, you are the first one to mention this.
I hate the redefining of words too! One of my favorites (?) is "decimate",which has (or had) a very clear definition. Now it's basically "total destruction".
Words mean what we collectively decide they mean, and that meaning drifts over time. I know the French have very strong opinions about language purity, but English speaking countries generally don’t, we just let language change organically.
Thanks. However the dictionary is only accurate for last week or when ever edited, not today, and it seems the Latin students are forever trying to catch up to the constant change & put a stop to it.
@@joshwalker5605 By this logic we can define any word to mean any thing; a dangerous proposition no doubt. This is the exact same dilemma that's encountered between consensus and the truth. The truth doesn't have to be popular to still be the truth, and freedom will never mean slavery, ignorance will never mean strength, and war will never mean peace no matter how many people you trick. Try to apply your logic to any field that relies on precision, which consequently involves the precise use of language, and it falls apart. A typical liberal arts major response.
Oh and the other calliper you showed, never seen one of them before but I have seen similar micrometres, for measuring/gauging the wall thickness of a cylinder?
As children we would go to the worlds largest county Fair (Clay County Fair Spencer, IA) and just as you said large canvas panels with all the oddities that were inside. Mom would pull us away with all the warnings about it being fake and "naughty". Now we see more ink on bodies than those depicted on those canvas panels. I never went in one of those tents, I found it a bit too creepy....
Just a question about some of your days in class. Did you ever notice a mystery where on one day you had a few pairs of dividers and a few pairs of calipers and on other days had the same number but all were hermaphrodite style?
I do that, but with a cheap Enco dial caliper I bought in '85. Funny thing is that it still works great (even though I reground the tips once), and has outlasted two other better ones that were never abused.
I have only heard them called Hermaphrodite Callipers by Americans, maybe it translates from other languages such as German as Hermaphrodite. Growing up in England I learned to use them and call them Odd leg callipers or "jenny" Leg callipers. I use them a lot in my work and it is possible to use them though measuring, this is where they come into their strength, Finding a centre line on a piece of work by setting up from either side or taking a measurement from one place or piece of stock and transferring it to another without the need to actually measure it can be very useful. In my 30 years of teaching though I found one of the things that really makes me cringe is seeing someone using a pair of Vernier callipers to mark parallel to an edge, when they should use some jenny legs! the abuse of a precision instrument makes me weep!
ouch, you just touched a sensitive topic. Recently you told me you don't want to offend anyone. Does not matter what is the truth, if you say anything about one of those topics, god forbid express an opinion, someone will find a way to get offended.
You say that they do not have those sideshows any more thank goodness. But they do. They are on the telly. I am not quite sure what the moral difference is.
@ th-cam.com/video/SvrwSKyP8GY/w-d-xo.html "Barker". Tubalcain: Your description sounds so similar to this audio sample that I heard years ago....the description is uncanny. The track last all of three minutes if you can endure it: th-cam.com/video/AB4KfF_g06s/w-d-xo.html . It might have even been the same show that Mr Pete 222 heard when he was a kid?...What do you think Mr Pete 222?
Mr Pete, you never fail make me laugh. Yesterday I was watching one of your videos and couldn’t stop laughing. Thank you for being a sanctuary of sanity in a world gone mad.
I am not as insane as the warped left
The real meat and potatoes handled!
When you spoke about taking Latin in High School in one of your older videos it really just reminded me how alien the culture of education in America has become in just your lifetime. I graduated in 2017 and the biggest shift I see when I look at the education of yesteryear and education now is that education today has abandoned literacy as being the foundation for all other learning. I would say over 3/4s of American education today is focused on teaching everything that is NOT how to read and write.
This is a travesty, because literacy has and always will be the distinguishing line between the educated and uneducated, going back to the birth of civilization and moving into the future no matter what some degree from a modern university says. With literacy you can learn anything, do anything, be anything. No wonder there are so many "educated" people today who have such a poor grasp of the English language and shake their fist at the world that they can't achieve success despite having one of those nice looking degrees. And I know this because I've taken college courses with these people and I've read their work. The ability of the average high school graduate to express themselves through the written word is infantile.
So I remain an uneducated literate that works on a fishing boat rather than join the hordes of educated illiterates 😂; make more money this way too, lol! Thanks for the great videos as always mrpete!
Excellent comment
Totally true
Great background and story time. Had me chuckling right out the gate
I'm glad!
Mr. Pete have you ever given any thought of doing a series of oral history about you life and your family? Not for the public but for future generations of you family. It would be truly a gift for them and a great legacy. Thanks!
In some ways, I have been doing that in a little bits and pieces. Soon to come, will be my six week boat trip.
I had enough money to get into a similar "different type show" once. I was probably about the same age as you, or maybe younger. It pretty much left a lasting impression on me considering my young age at the time.
I’m glad you shared the same experience as a boy. Those early years are burned into my memory.
Yes, in the $0.50 sideshow, the hooded 'Moon Man' with a horrible skin condition would take off the hood for an extra .025 after those not paying left the tent. The saddest facial expression on a human anyone could ever have is what I got left with, along with with certainty that no matter the situation, it can always be worse. Around 1965ish.
@@alro2434 My experience was similarly sad and grotesque. 65ish also.
_" Hey, We Wanna See The Goods"_ 10 year old Mr Pete 😂
lol
Interesting story about the carnival. Sometimes I wish things were like they used to be, and sometimes I don't.
Makes you wonder what we do today that won't be allowed in the future.
Every day, I wish things were like they used to be. I grew up in the golden age.
The Greeks said that before the Romans and I'm pretty sure that the Egyptians thought similarly.
I absolutely love the stories you tell of your youth with your brother. I could listen all day.
Glad you like them!
Mr Pete. You are the man! Ive had a Starrett set of these for quite some time without a good use for them. I did not know the reversal trick with those. As a master electrician I layout holes to be punched often. And often without accuracy to my standards. You just changed that. Thank you
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Fun video. I’ve seen these calipers and never understood why I’d need one. Well, thanks to Mr. Pete, now I know. I little smarter with each episode.
Right on
Mr. Pete, you are a class act, here, as always. Your description of the carnival and "freak show" is very accurate -- just like I remember, and was worth the entire video. I too, learned about the hermaphrodite condition in an unusual way. It was rumored that a certain person in our small town was endowed with "both parts," and my curiosity began to soar. While I never met the individual in question, I did do as much study on the subject as I could, and gained a basic understanding of the "problem." Otherwise, the video was very good. I enjoy using my hermaph. caliper (bo't on E-bay) for various things. Keep informing AND entertaining us. You are loved and appreciated. Bob in Florida
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as a cabinetmaker and trim carpenter, the tight hinge pin and fairly rugged design works well scribing crown and base moulding, and other coped intersections on the job. These fit in the tool pouch and don't need much fussing to maintain accuracy.
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Great lesson!! Love the carnival story, can't do much with a nickel now!!
Can’t do much was a dollar
As always, a very informative and entertaining video. The information was worth gold, but the story was priceless! Thanks for sharing and take care!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I remember seeing a function for this tool demonstrated. I thought at that time, I better get one of those. I haven't seen a used one for sale since. Now I can't remember why I thought it would be helpful.
Your video reminds me that I don't own any. I intend to begin looking and shopping so my grandsons have something else that Grandpa never used to inherit.
But during my Australian Fitter & Turner apprenticeship, they were also called Jenny leg calipers
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@@mrpete222you just don't seem to be a hermaphrodite aware gentleman Lyle. You don't have that weakness of the wrist characteristic that many tend to associate with a combination platter, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for that, I remember the term Jenny from my Elec Fitter Mechanic apprenticeship.
Thank you very much for (answering my prayers ) posting this topic Mr. Pete.
Any time
Thanks for the lesson on calipers. It's good to touch on the basics now and then. Loved the carnival story. Yeah, it was great to be ten way back when...
Glad you enjoyed it!
Might have to get one of those calipers. Liked your story. Brings back memories.
Interesting explanation and memories of the past. Yes, in my mind, teens. I sat in the wood behind the drive-in and watched a movie. I was chased off about 20 minutes after I had settled in. Harmless fun.
We went to the drive-in, theater in a 59 Oldsmobile with a gigantic trunk. One driving and three in the trunk never did get caught. I don’t think they cared, because selling popcorn and treats is what it is all about.
Very entertaining video, especially the intro!😁😁 My Dad(who was a Toolmaker), called them Odd Leg Dividers.
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Hi Mr. Pete, I normally use a hermaphrodite caliper on the lathe to make a mark on a spinning piece of round stock so that, I can turn up to a shoulder. When I first got out of high school, I got a job in a production sheet metal shop. I always had an interest in precision machining, though. I used to haunt the tool auctions on the weekends. I picked up a Brown & Sharpe hermaphrodite at one. I told my boss about it on Monday and he looked at me funny and chuckled inappropriately. I thought, "What's with this guy?" Well this guy was all about sex in every form you could imagine. So, I went home and looked up the word hermaphrodite and all became clear.
lol
Great video, we always called them Jenny Legs, or Odd Legs here in Englnd, Moore and Wright were quality items . Your extra credit I enjoyed, I never tire listening to you talking about what you did as a kid, and your early life as a shop teacher, always very interesting and amusing, thanks My Pete, take care, Dave
Oh wow! I havve a thousand other stories
Enjoyed the presentation Mr. Pete.
Hermaphrodite calipers are the cat's pajamas for doing rapid layout work at the bench. Placing the point in the etched mark of the desired dimension on the steel rule and pulling the leg up to the end of the rule allows you to set the caliper very quickly.
As Lyle demonstrates in the video, hermaphrodite calipers will quickly show an error when scribing a center line. If you have 2 parallel lines either the caliper was set incorrectly or the width of the work was not measured correctly.
Cheers from NC/USA
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I bought a thrown together lot of tools in a bag a few years ago... The total sum of one mans pride in a nasty bag. All tools are engraved Russell Odette in cursive. Inside where 3 Hermaphrodites plus everything a machinist circa 1945 would need, including a Aduels machinist and tool makers handy book. I've since cleaned all the tools, repaired the book as best I can and placed everything in a Sears machinist box. I use the book all the time, even just for twilight time reading.
Thank you, Mr. Pete.
That is so awesome. I would love to buy an old bag of tools.
I do remember going to a sideshow at the circus to see the Pickled Punks.
lol
Thanks for the Anatomy of calipers lesson. Very humorous.
Somehow I was reminded of my trip to the auto parts store the other day. I asked for a quart of tranny fluid and they told me to go to the Bud Light section at the beer distributor next door.
Lol
Great story about the carnival! It reminds me of great stories about the Midwest carnivals back in the day. It makes me regret that I was born in Brooklyn NY and missed out on those things. May you live forever Mr. Pete and keep bringing us these wonderful stories and shop tidbits!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Think here in the UK they were described as odd leg calipers. That was the only term i ever heard them called. As they say you learn something new every day. Thanks Mr Pete.
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Seems like back when I saw the greatest show on earth they still had a side show freak show. Bearded lady’s and all that jazz😮😊
Great story Mr Pete! And enjoyed the definitions and tool demo. You're the best!
Thank you kindly!
Carefully done, perfect.
Yes, I danced carefully around that one, L O L
We had a large at work set called "Sally odd legs"
I have a couple pair of those calipers but ive never used them.
Thanks for another educational video.
Hello Lyle, I had to chuckle at your comments about the carnival. We had shows like this when I was a boy growing up in New South Wales (Australia). I recall the odd leg caliper being called a Jenny caliper. Could sometimes use one, will have to keep my eye out for one at swap meets.
Thanks Mr Pete. I know two men that are probably close to your age, when they were not quite 16, they went to the local circus and got in to the hoochie-coocchie show. The girls took a liking to the boys and let them hang around. It was the last day of the season and they were going back to Florida for the winter. They told the boys that they could run off with the circus and stay with them. The boys made it as far as North Carolina before their parents had the sheriff apprehend the boys and keep them in jail until they could pick them up.
Wow
Glad I found this video. I have one of these that belonged to my dad. Didn't know what is was beyond a different looking caliper.
Glad I could help
Moore and Wright make one that they call a Firm Joint Jenny (reminds me of a girl I once dated). Moore & Wright MAW341R - same but slightly different
Thanks I will look that up.
Very interesting video,mrpete.Trees can do the same thing.Thank you.
Yes, thanks
Thanks for the great videos!
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Mr. Pete, once again great video. You should do more definitions, or origins on words. Always enjoy your videos very educational, it like I am back in high school even college shop classes, one of the best time of my life. Keep up the excellent videos.
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it. I think college was the best time of my life.
Must be me, it was just a continuation, grades 13, 14, ...
That was weird & amazing. Thank you Mr. Pete
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I have a couple pair and they're just the thing from time to time.
Normal levity about a strange situation handled very well.
I was greatly greatly censored by my own self. You know,
Good Morning Mr Pete!!!
The Tennessee Mole Man
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Good morning!
Thanks Mr Pete your story's are always interesting
Glad you like them!
The stories about the carnival freak show reminded me of San Fransisco.
Yes, but San Francisco is for real and for good
I use mine all the on layout particularly on wood and learther
same circus carnival came to grayslake ill in 1960s i bet a dime. always a memory/ animals/ tents/ side shows/ cotton candy , days of barnum and bailey entertainment.
Thank you very much for yours videos. I'm from Brazil and your videos are helping me a lot!
Happy to hear that!
I decided that I needed a hermaphrodite caliper a few years ago and purchased one like the smaller straight leg caliper you showed. I don't think I have actually used it except to try it out soon after acquiring it! I am about ten years your junior and never did see the side shows. I don't know if they were gone by the time I was old enough to attend carnivals or we were steered away from such entertainment by our parents. We lived far from town and didn't get to fairs or carnivals very often and were closely supervised.
I must confess, I very seldom use that caliper myself.
Luckily, the carnivals and circuses normally set up two or three blocks from my house. so we went to all of them
And we were totally unsupervised, L O L
Hello sir, it was a very informative video, so thank you for the explanation.
Great video Mr Pete...Also, Archie Bunker's definition of Hermaphrodite: Too much of each and not enough of either lol. I don't think I would have ever wanted to "see the goods" at age ten or now!🤣
lol
I remember playing on some antique amusements at the shows (what we called the fair). They had Victorian games where you could win a cigarette or some gum. There was also a seaside amusement arcade which had been built in the 1920's and still had a few original fittings. There was an automata which consisted of a metal elephant moving, on tracks, through a jungle scene, collecting a box as it went. At the end it would tip out the box which had a cheap toy and a fortune. No hermaphrodites, just a monkey who you could get your photo taken with.
Thank you, great memories
Hello Lyle, thanks again for another informative and entertaining video. I believe that the straight leg caliper you asked about is called a keyhole caliper. Don't ask me how I know this. I went through my old Starrett, Lufkin and Brown & Sharpe catalogs and could not find a listing for this caliper.
You are quite correct
Always a good video !!
I too know them as Jenny leg calipers
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Thanks for sharing 👍 I use mine as a layout tool a lot, but find I have to check the measurement between each use.
Lots of folks have mentioned the Jenny caliper; I wonder if the Jenny originally had one leg shaped side.
Oh my. So sad we have to tread so carefully as not to offend the .001%. Anyway, very useful instruments in the machine shop. I remember the "shows" at the carnivals!
Yes
I really toned down what happened
Excellent explanation, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Really enjoyed the video :)
I bought a hermaphrodite caliper at flee market today that also has a fine adjuster on it.
I’ve never seen one with the final adjustment
@@mrpete222 It is called the lock joint HERMAPHRODITE caliper could not find it in the Starrett book took me some time to find it on line.
thickness caliper for the one had one simular from lee tools i think . lots of history in this one.
The etymology of words is something that's being lost. No one has any care to learn anything about the component languages that make up English. It's no wonder so many people these days are willing to accept the constant redefining of words to match whatever is ideologically compatible.
Thank you for sharing that, I couldn’t agree more. I have always loved the derivation of words. I learned that in latin class. No one really cares, you are the first one to mention this.
I hate the redefining of words too! One of my favorites (?) is "decimate",which has (or had) a very clear definition. Now it's basically "total destruction".
Words mean what we collectively decide they mean, and that meaning drifts over time. I know the French have very strong opinions about language purity, but English speaking countries generally don’t, we just let language change organically.
Thanks. However the dictionary is only accurate for last week or when ever edited, not today, and it seems the Latin students are forever trying to catch up to the constant change & put a stop to it.
@@joshwalker5605 By this logic we can define any word to mean any thing; a dangerous proposition no doubt. This is the exact same dilemma that's encountered between consensus and the truth. The truth doesn't have to be popular to still be the truth, and freedom will never mean slavery, ignorance will never mean strength, and war will never mean peace no matter how many people you trick.
Try to apply your logic to any field that relies on precision, which consequently involves the precise use of language, and it falls apart. A typical liberal arts major response.
Oh and the other calliper you showed, never seen one of them before but I have seen similar micrometres, for measuring/gauging the wall thickness of a cylinder?
In Soviet Russia we had only Vernier calipers.
As children we would go to the worlds largest county Fair (Clay County Fair Spencer, IA) and just as you said large canvas panels with all the oddities that were inside. Mom would pull us away with all the warnings about it being fake and "naughty". Now we see more ink on bodies than those depicted on those canvas panels. I never went in one of those tents, I found it a bit too creepy....
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Lyle, this is a "Bawdy" comment. Are you going to take your "Bawdy" out to the Bar-Z this year? I would like to meet you. Jon
Unfortunately
No
Keyhole Caliper
Yes
@ 4:52 THANK YOU!
I never owned one of these until I put all my calipers in the same drawer. Open it one day and guess what I found!
"Shocking!!!"
Can't think of a comment that wouldn't be "bawdy" 😂😊
Me either
Lol old man is a G
Mate, what was the caliper that you did not identify please?
Not entirely sure, but it might have been a joke; two different types mounted on the same pivot.
So basically they are what i have been using my old drafting compass for
Dang Lyle! And during pride month!😢
lol. You noticed.
Also called a Jenny
Uo next: bastard files and ball-peen hammers
And then, male and female Hershey bars
And for inclusiveness, the straight-pein & cross-pein.
Whatever gets your motor running
No comment,but do. I get extra credit ,I watched till the end🤗😎🤗😎
Yes
Just a question about some of your days in class. Did you ever notice a mystery where on one day you had a few pairs of dividers and a few pairs of calipers and on other days had the same number but all were hermaphrodite style?
Yes, I did, and some of them had a found their way into the drawer where I keep the bastard files.
@@mrpete222 That was us. he, he, he...... Good one.
Or in the immortal words of Archie Bunker: "Too much of one and not enough of the other".
lol
Insize tools make this same tool in a digital caliber. I looked into purchasing one, but I couldn't justify the price for no more than I would use it.
I will have to look that up
This video has been up for six hours at the writing of this comment so is it safe to say Mr. Pete didn't pass off the TH-cam gods (little g that is)?
Yes
Too many people abuse their Verniers as a substitute.
I do that, but with a cheap Enco dial caliper I bought in '85. Funny thing is that it still works great (even though I reground the tips once), and has outlasted two other better ones that were never abused.
I know it as a Jenny caliper
Never heard of the term
I have only heard them called Hermaphrodite Callipers by Americans, maybe it translates from other languages such as German as Hermaphrodite. Growing up in England I learned to use them and call them Odd leg callipers or "jenny" Leg callipers. I use them a lot in my work and it is possible to use them though measuring, this is where they come into their strength, Finding a centre line on a piece of work by setting up from either side or taking a measurement from one place or piece of stock and transferring it to another without the need to actually measure it can be very useful. In my 30 years of teaching though I found one of the things that really makes me cringe is seeing someone using a pair of Vernier callipers to mark parallel to an edge, when they should use some jenny legs! the abuse of a precision instrument makes me weep!
I see lots of people using the vernier in that way
@@mrpete222 Indeed, it pains me deeply!
"Morfy" (morphy) calipers: the term comes from the very common mispronunciation "morphodite."
isnt that called an edge scribe?
ouch, you just touched a sensitive topic. Recently you told me you don't want to offend anyone. Does not matter what is the truth, if you say anything about one of those topics, god forbid express an opinion, someone will find a way to get offended.
I don’t care if I offend ignorant leftists. Just don’t want to get kicked off yt
@@mrpete222 Glad you care about ignorant rightists!
Warning! ... picture of Hermaphrodites modeling at the end of the video.
You say that they do not have those sideshows any more thank goodness. But they do. They are on the telly. I am not quite sure what the moral difference is.
You are correct, but I have no longer watch television. My side show is Walmart or target
Someone with a artificial leg might find that type of tool offensive.
lol
😂
I think your high school students are snickering
@ th-cam.com/video/SvrwSKyP8GY/w-d-xo.html "Barker". Tubalcain: Your description sounds so similar to this audio sample that I heard years ago....the description is uncanny. The track last all of three minutes if you can endure it: th-cam.com/video/AB4KfF_g06s/w-d-xo.html . It might have even been the same show that Mr Pete 222 heard when he was a kid?...What do you think Mr Pete 222?