Wow, you weren't kidding Eric! When I was still doing the machinist thing, I got the cheapest acceptable calipers I could. (Fowler dial calipers, and the Q.A. department had no problem with them. They stayed accurate over the intervals of approval, they repeated well and always got the green label.) I looked them up on that Enco site and they were only 25 bucks! I'm scared to look up the mitutoyo stuff I have, I might be upset.