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Jul 20, 2021
A fine micrometer from when Starrett was at its best!
Starrett micrometers of this vintage are the best analog micrometers ever made. This 436 is graduated in ten -thousandths and carbide faced anvil and spindle. NOTE carefully that it was made BEFORE Starrett started pinching the pennies and eliminated having their brand - name, the model number and size stamped in raised-polished steel lozenges on front and back, replacing that with a shiny metallic sticker on the front side that can be peeled off, and before they relocated the lock ring. I am an old man and I still have the twin to this Starrett T436XRL -- 1 micrometer that I bought as a young machinist nearly 60 years ago. Although I prefer the Starrett 226 model in sixes 2 -- 6 inch, and the 230 in 0 -- 1 inch for their beauty, the 436 is just as accurate and durable. The only significant difference is that its spindle is larger diameter (0.270 "), whereas the 226 and 230 are 0.250", so they can measure in slightly tighter spaces.
I emphasized that this particular micrometer is the older style with the name, model and size stamped in the steel of the frame and lock ring centered in the frame. Personally, I would not buy the newer Starret 436 with the shiny sticker.
Nov 04, 2020
Best ever made for its specialized functions-measuring diameters of 1 - 2" cylinders or three-flute cutters to tenths!
There is no better V - micrometer for measuring to ten - thousandths of an inch diameters of cylinders between 1 and 2" and checking out-of-roundness, as in centerless - grinding applications. It also measures flute diameters of 3-flute cutters and the like. For perspective, I am an old one - time machinist, and I prefer older - style analog micrometers with which I have years of experience.
Aug 10, 2021
This OLDER Starrett T226XRL-3 is, for my money, the best micrometer ever made by anyone!!!
I bought my first micrometer over sixty years ago and have owned and used Starrett, Brown & Sharpe, Lufkin and Craftsman micrometers over the years. In my experience Starrett micrometers have proven to be the best: Their sleeve zeroing adjustment is faster and easier to use than any other – emphatically! Once they went to the staggered graduations they caught up with B&S on that. Their satin-chrome finish, comparable with B&S and others is amazingly durable and rust - resistant.
As to the Starrett 226 in particular, I happen to prefer the rotating - collar locking system to the rotating locking - ring that they use on all their other models, that B&S used to use and to the modern B&S lever-lock. Their smaller diameter spindle (0.235" on the 226 vs 0.27" on the 436) allows measurement in tighter spaces). Also, and this is strictly personal, I happen to appreciate aesthetics in the tools I use constantly, and the Starrett 226, with its raised, polished ribs and the polished raised lozenges on front and back of the frame with the “Starrett” and model number and size stamped in the polished steel combines with their graceful symmetry to make them the most beautiful micrometers (along with the heavy - duty 239, which is simply an enlarged 226) ever made by anyone. The recent changes in the 226, replacing the brand, model and size stamped in the polished steel raised areas and replacing it with a little shiny sticker, which can be peeled off, and changing from the locking - collar to a locking - ring located where the barrel meets the frame betrayed the heritage of “finest ever”, as the bean-counters got their way. And now they have discontinued the 226 line completely.
As for the cases, I prefer the older wooden cases and, for the set of six, the earlier wooden cases where the internal fitting for the micrometers was wood, rather than plastic - foam.