Me too. When I was in school in the mid 70's, they told us that the imperial system would be replaced by the metric system within 10 years. They did teach us the metric system, but the country clearly never switched and most of what I learned has been forgotten. It is so much easier. I can teach how to read a metric mic a lot easier than a standard one.
Reading the posts below makes me happy that I have helped so many people learn to read the micrometer. Reading one is simple, but my students struggle with the simple decimal system and I find that to be the biggest challenge. Once again, thanks guys for all the kind comments. It really means a lot to me to hear them.
You laid it out in a sequential manner where I can use the same steps you explained in your video, for real life experiences. Having the video be 5 minutes, aka not too long, and showing multiple examples to drive home the point were perfect. Thank u for the video it was exactly what I needed
The anvil is actually a frame, the measurement faces Is between the opening from the spindle. The anvil is the part where the thimble touches the closed part
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you said, "Vernier Micrometers can measure to ten thousandths of an inch." I think what you meant was that vernier micrometers can measure to a tenth of a thousandth of an inch. In other words: .010" = ten thousandths of an inch .001 = a thousandth of an inch (tolerance of standard micrometer) .0001 = a tenth of a thousandth, or simply said as ONE TEN thousandTH of an inch (tolerance of vernier micrometer) .00001 = ten millionths of an inch .000001 = a millionth of an inch or "micron" Since this is an instructional video I thought it was key to point out this critical detail. It can get to be very confusing and have found this communication issue to come up from time to time when talking about ten thousandths of an inch versus one ten thousandths of inch; so the language needs to be very clear ands concise. (I'm employed full-time as a machinist)
Reply to *Atimatik Army* 1: A micron is not a millionth of an inch. A micron is a micrometer. 2: A ten-thousandth of anything is 1/10,000, not the same as 10 one-thousandths 10 x 1/1000. The confusion may be the plural. You could say "accurate to one ten-thousandth inch"
My number one video made three years ago titled Reading a Standard Micrometer. It was made to teach my students on how to read and use the micrometer. It can be found at Reading a Standard Micrometer.mp4
I'm in an engineering class, we haven't covered this in months and all of a sudden needed to know how to read micrometers, this video was great every easy to learn too! 10/10
There is a big difference between reading and measuring. Reading tells you what the numbers and lines mean but to be able to actually measure properly is a different matter. I have as a Toolmaker ( 55 years experience) used both inch and metric. The inch in precision engineering was converted to a metric ( 1000 )unit but still is a very cumbersome way to measure on the micrometer. If you can measure something with a metric micrometer within 0.005 you are doing extremely well. With measuring I mean having it checked after with slip gauges ( gauge blocks ) ! If you have 10 people measuring the same item they most likely all come up with a slightly different measurement.
I was just saying something similar to one of my students today. It's easy to teach them to READ the micrometer, but a whole lot harder to teach them to use the tool to make proper measurements.
This video is super helpful. I'm still learning so I have to write the numbers down on paper and add them up but before watching this I couldn't even do that
No, because the thimble has not come around to the zero line yet, so the .500" line cannot be counted. Back up a little and watch it again. I explained that because that is a common error with my students. It explains this at about 3.53. I hope it makes sense now.
Why do they add in a 4th unnecessary step as if you're reading the 25 thousands can't you just combine the numbers and take out an entire addition step as you would do with a measuring tape 2 and 3/4 it's exactly the same as adding 2 and .75 inches in your first example as we know it's thousathis it should simply be .175
Thank you for this video. I just started begging machinery class. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to properly measure and this helped me out. Now i just need to buy some tools and practice.
Thanks. Very helpful. I'm currently going to school to become a machinist and had some questions about reading a micrometer, but this video answered all my questions. Thanks again.
Forty years ago, I used a micrometer daily in my job as a floor inspector in a wire mill. This morning, I pulled out the mike to gauge my guitar bridge pins to order replacements. How soon we forget! Thanks for the helpful video. Just like the old days . . .
My machine tools instructor did a fine job teaching this but I now work in Non Destructive Testing and don't ever take measurements. This is an excellent refresher course. Thanks so much for having your dialogue worked out in advance and not starting any sentences with "Uh,..." The true end of the Industrial Revolution came when tolerances began being measured in 10,000ths.
Great video. Some of the viewers commented on having been taught to measure using the metric system, while others were taught use decimal measurements in the SAE or inch-foot-yard system. Didn't NASA have some problems a few years ago with some critical of the measurements for a space mission being Metric and others in inches in decimal format, and nobody noticed? The Hubble telescope mission perhaps, which required having a corrective lens built and carried into space and fitted on top of the mirror to correct the refractive error?
I don't think it was metric measurements that messed up Hubble(a different story). It was an unbelievable backyard tool that the guys made. It's a great story actually.
So I won't be commenting anything new here, but it might help those still confused: For the "vernier scale" portion where he takes measurements from the left side (in the first example it was 0.0004"), it might be hard to understand what two lines he's comparing (the one on the left, and another random line on the thimble) or WHY. The way you do this is you look at all the lines on the thimble, and see if any of those lines match up EXACTLY (or is the most exact line pair of them all) and you write down the measurement of that left line it most matches with. So in his first case: The number 13 and the number 4 had lines which matched exactly. If you were to look at all the other lines, they wouldn't match up as good as these two did. So you look at the line on the left that is paired with the 13 line, and you take that measurement. So 13 and 4 match each other, so 4 represents 0.0004". Write it down, add it up, and you're done. Just wanted to clear that up. The only other thing people get confused with is remembering that on the first step each little line represents 0.025" (and not just 1, 2, 3, etc). So it goes like this: 0.1, 0.025, 0.050, 0.075, 0.2, 0.025, 0.050, 0.075, 0.3..... In realty the measurements will be: 0.100 , 0.125 , 0.150 , 0.175 , 0.200 , 0.225 , 0.250 , 0.275 , 0.300.... Hope this helped a little.
I noticed mechanics and machinist pronounce their readings a little different. For example... .1844 you said, "One thousand eigth hundred and forty four ten thousanths of an inch"... I as a machinist would read it like " One hundred eighty four thousanths and four tenths" Is there a right or wrong way to read a mic? Im just curious if us machinist are right or wrong. Thanks.
hmm hold up isnt what is labelled in the video as the anvil not just the frame of the micrometer and actually the other face which is fixed called the anvil ???
Hey man how work because you said 44 ten thousand but you only have 4 ten thousand which is 0004 the res will be 1000 if the micrometer not read 44 ten thousand maybe I misunderstood everything
it looks like your micrometer is messed up in that last example at 3:53. the 5 line is not only visible but a portion beyond it is as well on the sleeve. were it at 24 plus as you say then the whole line would not be visible and in fact the whole 5 line would not be visible at .5000 either.
True, and not true. This is actually how I prefer my mics to look. Maybe not so much of the .500 line showing, but it's pretty close. My brand new Starrett mics show about half of the .500 line at this setting. Maybe more.
Asking Google assistant to convert a meter to inches out of curiosity while watching Planet Earth then when through the rabbit hole of Google Q&A that eventually led me to this video. I learned something but will I retain it? What kind of jobs or companies require you to use a micrometer?
@jtjoser - You are right. I would say it the same way as you, but some of the math teachers would say it as I did in the video. Since my video was made for high school students in my class, I figured I would make the math teachers happy and say it their way.
Just so people know when your are taking the third measurement and it is double digit instead of single you will add it as .013 and single digit is .009.
Is the piece that he's calling the anvil, the anvil or the frame? I looked up some diagrams of a micrometer and they all have that part labeled as the frame. The anvil is actually the little cylinder of still at the top end of the micrometer.
Thank you very much for this video. I had forgotten how to use a Vernier micrometer to measure disc brake rotors and appreciate is very educational video.
Wow that was easy my instructor confused the hell out of me
Does he call you by your TH-cam handle in class? Hey TBaggins, get over here!
Fr tho! 😂
Me too. When I was in school in the mid 70's, they told us that the imperial system would be replaced by the metric system within 10 years. They did teach us the metric system, but the country clearly never switched and most of what I learned has been forgotten. It is so much easier. I can teach how to read a metric mic a lot easier than a standard one.
whats the name of the background song? and thank you this video was helpful.
@@crownking3752 Sorry, I'm not sure. The video was made a long time ago.
@@motoprof1441 no worries great video though
thanks man this is gunna help alot for my test on reading micrometers tomorrow fkn college tests are bitches to figure out
Thank you 🎀
thank you, you're such a life saver!
I didnt understand where he got the last number from - .0006 of an inch??????
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Reading the posts below makes me happy that I have helped so many people learn to read the micrometer. Reading one is simple, but my students struggle with the simple decimal system and I find that to be the biggest challenge.
Once again, thanks guys for all the kind comments. It really means a lot to me to hear them.
You're the best teacher
You laid it out in a sequential manner where I can use the same steps you explained in your video, for real life experiences.
Having the video be 5 minutes, aka not too long, and showing multiple examples to drive home the point were perfect.
Thank u for the video it was exactly what I needed
This really helps me in my online class THANKSS!
That is not the anvil, That is the frame. The anvil is the measuring face opposite the spindle.
The anvil is actually a frame, the measurement faces Is between the opening from the spindle. The anvil is the part where the thimble touches the closed part
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you said, "Vernier Micrometers can measure to ten thousandths of an inch."
I think what you meant was that vernier micrometers can measure to a tenth of a thousandth of an inch. In other words:
.010" = ten thousandths of an inch
.001 = a thousandth of an inch (tolerance of standard micrometer)
.0001 = a tenth of a thousandth, or simply said as ONE TEN thousandTH of an inch (tolerance of vernier micrometer)
.00001 = ten millionths of an inch
.000001 = a millionth of an inch or "micron"
Since this is an instructional video I thought it was key to point out this critical detail. It can get to be very confusing and have found this communication issue to come up from time to time when talking about ten thousandths of an inch versus one ten thousandths of inch; so the language needs to be very clear ands concise.
(I'm employed full-time as a machinist)
Reply to *Atimatik Army*
1: A micron is not a millionth of an inch. A micron is a micrometer.
2: A ten-thousandth of anything is 1/10,000, not the same as 10 one-thousandths 10 x 1/1000.
The confusion may be the plural. You could say "accurate to one ten-thousandth inch"
10*(1000^-1*inch) vs (10^-1*1000^-1*inch) == (10*1000)^-1*inch
I never heard a human say the former. Why not just say (100^-1*inch) ?
Sorry altimatik gotta agree with Bob here.
My number one video made three years ago titled Reading a Standard Micrometer. It was made to teach my students on how to read and use the micrometer. It can be found at Reading a Standard Micrometer.mp4
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Thank you
Very helpful , and a good refresher course!
How did you embed the link inside text. Was this available as an option back then and not now???
I'm in an engineering class, we haven't covered this in months and all of a sudden needed to know how to read micrometers, this video was great every easy to learn too! 10/10
Taking my A&P online and I could not understand this at all trying to read. This is perfect!
Thank you!! I am having a practical exam tomorrow and u saved my life!!!!!!!!!!!
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anvil shown is frame anvil is on other end of frame and spindle other in between anvil and thimble is workpeace hold
There is a big difference between reading and measuring.
Reading tells you what the numbers and lines mean but to be able to actually measure properly is a different matter. I have as a Toolmaker ( 55 years experience) used both inch and metric. The inch in precision engineering was converted to a metric ( 1000 )unit but still is a very cumbersome way to measure on the micrometer. If you can measure something with a metric micrometer within 0.005 you are doing extremely well. With measuring I mean having it checked after with slip gauges ( gauge blocks ) ! If you have 10 people measuring the same item they most likely all come up with a slightly different measurement.
I was just saying something similar to one of my students today. It's easy to teach them to READ the micrometer, but a whole lot harder to teach them to use the tool to make proper measurements.
Thank you for the video. Yet another measuring tool that needs to be taught in school so we do look like a bunch of knuckleheads in the work world.
This video is super helpful. I'm still learning so I have to write the numbers down on paper and add them up but before watching this I couldn't even do that
Most people started by writing down the numbers. Keep practicing and you will not need the paper anymore. God luck.
No, because the thimble has not come around to the zero line yet, so the .500" line cannot be counted. Back up a little and watch it again. I explained that because that is a common error with my students. It explains this at about 3.53. I hope it makes sense now.
I thought reading a micrometer would be hard and tedious but this video did a great job of explaining it and its way easier than I thought.
Wow. I think I'll just get one with a digital display. I'm not a professional and I don't I try this at home.
right to the point
Great video, I had forgotten how to read the veneer micrometers, thanks
11 years later and your still helping people
I just needed a refresher and this 7 year old video is still helping forgetful people like me. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this information! I really do appreciate it.... The video was very informative.
Best micrometer tutorial I have seen yet. You explained better than my shop teacher. Thanks alot
Well thought out and explained...thanks. That helped a lot. Very useful information that every aspiring machinist needs to know,
Why do they add in a 4th unnecessary step as if you're reading the 25 thousands can't you just combine the numbers and take out an entire addition step as you would do with a measuring tape 2 and 3/4 it's exactly the same as adding 2 and .75 inches in your first example as we know it's thousathis it should simply be
.175
You picture (0:47) points to the frame, and describes it as the anvil.
BTW: You don't *calibrate* a Micrometer, you *zero* it.
I use a micrometer like once a year. For the past decade+ I have always came back to this exact vid just for a quick refresh to be 100% sure.
So 287 people were not looking for this knowleadge and gave it a thumbs down. I wounder if there is a measuring tool for your logic..? Lol
Hello from 2021 , I’m taking my FAA exam ( general ) . Thanks for the help if u still alive.
Brilliant video tutorial 👏 👌 👍
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Thank you for this video. I just started begging machinery class. I'm having a hard time figuring out how to properly measure and this helped me out. Now i just need to buy some tools and practice.
realsteel85 it’s been 5 years, hows life been?
Thanks. Very helpful. I'm currently going to school to become a machinist and had some questions about reading a micrometer, but this video answered all my questions. Thanks again.
Forty years ago, I used a micrometer daily in my job as a floor inspector in a wire mill. This morning, I pulled out the mike to gauge my guitar bridge pins to order replacements. How soon we forget! Thanks for the helpful video. Just like the old days . . .
My machine tools instructor did a fine job teaching this but I now work in Non Destructive Testing and don't ever take measurements. This is an excellent refresher course. Thanks so much for having your dialogue worked out in advance and not starting any sentences with "Uh,..."
The true end of the Industrial Revolution came when tolerances began being measured in 10,000ths.
Pov: When someone is using the digital micrometer and u gotta go old fashion but don’t know how to use it
this shit easy how I not understand it. I blame it on my class be first block and I'm tired about to knock
you're a legend dude. others make it hard to read and you make it simple for everybody to do. keep it up!
Thank you so much 🥰❤️ its good to have like you.... You help me of my modules
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Confusing at first but you explained it well and I love the multiple examples. Thank you. Great video!
What a great video! Very informative! Thank you for posting! So that's the difference between a mic and a Vernier? Learned other stuff too. Thanks!
.300 3 tenths of an inch
.030 3 hundredths of an inch
.003 3 thousandths of an inch
.0003 3 thousandths of an inch
Great video. Some of the viewers commented on having been taught to measure using the metric system, while others were taught use decimal measurements in the SAE or inch-foot-yard system. Didn't NASA have some problems a few years ago with some critical of the measurements for a space mission being Metric and others in inches in decimal format, and nobody noticed? The Hubble telescope mission perhaps, which required having a corrective lens built and carried into space and fitted on top of the mirror to correct the refractive error?
I don't think it was metric measurements that messed up Hubble(a different story). It was an unbelievable backyard tool that the guys made. It's a great story actually.
Do they make a new digital caliper.
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So I won't be commenting anything new here, but it might help those still confused:
For the "vernier scale" portion where he takes measurements from the left side (in the first example it was 0.0004"), it might be hard to understand what two lines he's comparing (the one on the left, and another random line on the thimble) or WHY. The way you do this is you look at all the lines on the thimble, and see if any of those lines match up EXACTLY (or is the most exact line pair of them all) and you write down the measurement of that left line it most matches with.
So in his first case: The number 13 and the number 4 had lines which matched exactly. If you were to look at all the other lines, they wouldn't match up as good as these two did. So you look at the line on the left that is paired with the 13 line, and you take that measurement. So 13 and 4 match each other, so 4 represents 0.0004". Write it down, add it up, and you're done.
Just wanted to clear that up.
The only other thing people get confused with is remembering that on the first step each little line represents 0.025" (and not just 1, 2, 3, etc). So it goes like this: 0.1, 0.025, 0.050, 0.075, 0.2, 0.025, 0.050, 0.075, 0.3.....
In realty the measurements will be: 0.100 , 0.125 , 0.150 , 0.175 , 0.200 , 0.225 , 0.250 , 0.275 , 0.300....
Hope this helped a little.
Im going to teach my kids using your video. Extremely well instructions, thanx a lot.
I noticed mechanics and machinist pronounce their readings a little different. For example... .1844 you said, "One thousand eigth hundred and forty four ten thousanths of an inch"... I as a machinist would read it like " One hundred eighty four thousanths and four tenths" Is there a right or wrong way to read a mic? Im just curious if us machinist are right or wrong. Thanks.
How do you read digital micrometers? digitalmicrometers.co.uk/products/dbg2025
This video is very helpful in understanding how to use this tool. Thank you for the contribution.
The last picture, I thought it was 500. But it is 475.
Fuck manual micrometers step your game up and get a digital snap gauge
This is the best video I've seen. I start tomorrow my new CNC job with no experience. This helps me alot thank you
How is it going?
Man, I'm glad I work in metric. much easier.
hmm hold up isnt what is labelled in the video as the anvil not just the frame of the micrometer and actually the other face which is fixed called the anvil ???
Hey man how work because you said 44 ten thousand but you only have 4 ten thousand which is 0004 the res will be 1000 if the micrometer not read 44 ten thousand maybe I misunderstood everything
it looks like your micrometer is messed up in that last example at 3:53. the 5 line is not only visible but a portion beyond it is as well on the sleeve. were it at 24 plus as you say then the whole line would not be visible and in fact the whole 5 line would not be visible at .5000 either.
True, and not true. This is actually how I prefer my mics to look. Maybe not so much of the .500 line showing, but it's pretty close. My brand new Starrett mics show about half of the .500 line at this setting. Maybe more.
I really enjoy your videos however, NEVER close your micrometer thimble to zero. Instead, reference your mics with gauge pins or gauge blocks.
Dude. Your amazing! I felt very uneasy in this area, "how to use a micrometer" and now i know. Thanks!!!
Goog video / 4:22 minutes I been shure -it is 0.5244 ( only after realized , what micrometer is old and not too much preseized ).
I'm confused and I don't understand why the measurement of (.0004" )why that number...?
It's for more accuracy. Some micrometers can only read to the thousandth .001, while others can read to the ten thousandth .0001.
Asking Google assistant to convert a meter to inches out of curiosity while watching Planet Earth then when through the rabbit hole of Google Q&A that eventually led me to this video. I learned something but will I retain it? What kind of jobs or companies require you to use a micrometer?
Great Job!! the best one I've seen thus far...
plastigage is junk. Show how you can measure clearance measuring with bore gauge. and micrometer.
World changing video. Now my student finally understands why he shouldn't run .0055 rod bearing clearances.
@jtjoser - You are right. I would say it the same way as you, but some of the math teachers would say it as I did in the video. Since my video was made for high school students in my class, I figured I would make the math teachers happy and say it their way.
i understanding everything thanks , im mexican but i dont understand how works the micrometer, now i know it ....
Very helpful. I struggled to understand how each of the scales interacted, and your video cleared it up for me in 5 minutes!
Simply stated, thanks for your help!
Much better video than the 1982 blur instructional I have at my school.
Thank you very much. Going for a job interview for an Aerospace manufacturing company tomorrow and it’s been a while since I’ve used a micrometer.
Just so people know when your are taking the third measurement and it is double digit instead of single you will add it as .013 and single digit is .009.
Is the piece that he's calling the anvil, the anvil or the frame? I looked up some diagrams of a micrometer and they all have that part labeled as the frame. The anvil is actually the little cylinder of still at the top end of the micrometer.
Thanks. Just bought a micrometer in inch and I couldt quite understand the instructions that came with the micrometer. This saved my day.
Very helpful video! All it took was me to review this video twice and now I can read a micrometer no problem
Outstanding video...especially the "last measurement. Cheers.
Still useful in 2022.
Direct and concise.
Good this video is being watch around the world especially third world countries they appreciate it so much thanks
best thoroughly explained video out there on micrometer. Thank you
Wow it was very difficult for me to explain it but now it's so easy after I watched this video thanks so much
dial bore guage. or how to read piston clearance and out of round would be nice.
Thanks for the video! Straight to the point.
This helped me a lot to understand how to read the micrometer. thank you :)
Me too bro.
3:36 ist that read Three hundred and fifty six thousands and six tenths in the machinist world?
Yes it is. The automotive world says it the same way as machinist, but the math teachers would cringe at how we really it.
Thousandths of an inch? Seriously?? God damn it, America.
ten thousandth's as well
Thank you! This was easy to understand.
Thank you very much for this video. I had forgotten how to use a Vernier micrometer to measure disc brake rotors and appreciate is very educational video.
I was watching th-cam.com/video/468dLLvtulw/w-d-xo.html.
Thanks motoprof....that was the most useful/informative example i've seen. It really helped me.
thanks man i pass my exam
because of this video . an great explanation so i understood very well
Thank you all for the nice comments you left. I am trying to figure out what video to do next. Maybe using plastigage to measure clearances.
Thank you for the great example of reading the micrometer! I was wondering, are you saying "thimble" or "symbol" ?
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thimble
Best explanation I've seen so far, on an inch micrometer. And I'm a metric guy..;)
.0 is a tenth not a thousandth. .003 or .004 is.