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PSA: Spent $300 on a cheap digital caliper and it cost me a whole rebar cage
Bought this no-name caliper off Amazon for $300 cause the big name ones were like $800. Worked fine for a month, then started drifting on me by 1/16th. Didn't catch it until the inspector flagged our rebar spacing on a bridge deck job in Nashville. Had to tear out 40 feet of cage and re-lay it. Lost a whole day and pissed off the foreman. Anyone else get burned by cheap measuring tools on site?
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