NEIKO 01407A Electronic Digital Caliper Measuring Tool, 0-6 Inches Stainless Steel Construction with Large LCD Screen Quick Change Button for Inch Fraction Millimeter Conversions, Digital Caliper

This review is for NEIKO 01407A Electronic Digital Caliper | 0-6 Inches | Stainless Steel Construction with Large LCD Screen | Quick Change Button for Inch/Fraction/Millimeter Conversions. Let me start of by saying that if you need a gauge that is highly accurate and highly precise, you are going to need to shell out some good coin for something like a Mitutoyos. I picked up this NEIKO caliper, because I wanted something that was quality and not expensive. This caliper has been excellent so far. It is stainless steel, which was a must. I want it to last, and I wanted something more precise/accurate than plastic. I also wanted something digital for ease of use. This gauge is extremely easy to use. You can scroll through millimeters, inches, and fractions of inches. The display is also easy to read. This also comes with a nice storage case, one battery installed, and a spare battery. The owner's manual fits inside the case, and there is room for a spare battery in the case. The only thing I can say remotely negative is that the installed battery arrived dead, but the spare battery was good. I've already used this multiple times around the house for various things, and I wish I had bought one of these sooner. It has been extremely helpful for multiple projects.

Honestly for the low price of $25 I didn't expect much out of these calipers. I figured they would be cheaply made with way to much play in the jaws or slide key... But they aren't! I couldn't believe how well built it was. There was absolutely no play in the slide even at full extension! I've had mitutoyos that had more slop. The measurements are dead on, it claims accuracy at +/- .001 and they weren't kidding. I used a .010 gage block as a reference measurement and the neiko calipers measured it at .0100 I mean if that's not dead on I don't know what is. The fractional readings are also an absolute bonus! finally no more wasting time having to convert a decimal value to a fractional number. Anyway with all those positives I can still point out a few negatives that should be mentioned... The slide itself has no play, with that being said it's so tight in the slot that you can feel it kind of dragging or just not sliding smoothly cause of the friction build up... No problem! Oil the slide with a few drops of air oil, clock oil, or a light gear oil. Do that once a week or monthly pending how often you use them and that slide moves like butter. The next negative is the buttons, they don't always register when you depress them... Again it's not really that big of a deal but if it doesn't work 100% everytime then regardless it's still a problem. The last and final issue is probably the biggest and this is going to really depend on the application your using these for... But the jaw tips are fairly thick, significantly thicker than the jaws on a set of mitutoyo this does limit your ability to get those jaws into super tight spaces. For instance if you need to determine the shank size on a small bolt say like a 1/4 - 20 the neiko calipers jaw tips will not fit between those threads. So in hindsight, that really does limit effectiveness. If you need that kind of flexibility and absolute precision obviously mitutoyo is the way to go... If you don't save yourself about $175 and buy a set of Neiko digital calipers! Last and final opinion... I was reading through several of the previous comments and alot of people seemed to be complaining about screen issues or zeroing issues.... Did yall ever happen to think "oh well maybe the battery is dead or dying"??? These calipers come with a battery already installed, and who knows how long they were sitting on a shelf before being shipped out. Batteries don't last forever folks! My best advice is when you get the calipers delivered first thing you need to do is just simply change out the battery with a new one. They take LR44 and will also accept SR44 batteries. So buy a set of neiko calipers today, go get you a pack of LR44 batteries tomorrow, stare out the window, and wait for that Amazon truck to roll on up!

This is a fairly nice Digital Caliper, comes in a nice storage container. Great for inside and outside measurements. Solid construction. Metal slide and calipers, plastic housing of LCD readout. In use this seams accurate enough and is really easy to use. However this came with 2 batteries and am glad it did. It was shipped with one IN the caliper and when I pulled it out and turned it on, the readout wigged out. all kinds of numbers and letters flashing on the screen. It would do anything but wig out. On a hunch, I replaced the battery it shipped with, with the extra one. Once I did that everything worked fine. So yes this comes with two Lr44 batteries, however only one is usable! So I took a star off for that. The rest of it has been wonderful! EDIT July 8th, 2025: Do NOT store your batteries in the caliper or it will drain them, even if you power it off. I now take out the batter every single time I am finished using it and now my batteries last.

bought this for use with my 3d printer. I like the storage box, it is very sturdy plastic and offers a lot of protection. These come with the battery, so it works right out of the box. the screen is easy to read, and the buttons feel strong. this should last a long time. great product

These are great, the display is easy to read, they are accurate and don’t feel cheap. Very sturdy feeling in your hand.

I bought this because I kept reading so many different thickness measurements for materials and I wanted to figure out if some of the materials that I had already purchased would work in particular machines. For instance, the Silhouette Portrait will only cut materials up to 0.8 mm so when I was looking at chipboard and whether or not it would work in that particular machine, people would have so many different measurements that I just couldn't figure out if a product was worth purchasing or not. I have a bunch of different materials that I have purchased over the past and did not end up working for me, so I got this to measure the thickness of those particular things. First, let me address the quality. It seems to be of pretty good quality. It is sturdy and moves easily (doesn't get stuck when trying to open or close). The digital readout is big and is extremely easy to use. There is a red button under the digital readout that you can push to turn it on or off, but it also automatically turns on when you slide it open. You can set the zero on it to any point which might come in handy for people that want to measure from a larger point (like comparing the exact same items to see if there is a difference or something). The case is OK... It is sturdy and it doesn't feel like it will break easily. It is plastic, but not a thin plastic. My only complaint about the case is that it looks like a tool case! haha. I will have to add some color to it and make it look less like something my husband might want to steal. It is also a little difficult to open at times for me but perhaps that's because I'm used to the easy girly tools. ;) There was a battery already installed and an extra one in the case. It uses a LR44 button cell which is VERY common in kids toys so I have a huge backup of batteries for this thing. Those batteries tend to be rather expensive if purchased from a local store for some reason. They are often times seen in watches and that's usually the department we would find them in when we used to shop for them. I actually found them cheaper on Amazon and ordered 100 batteries for less than the price of 2 at the local store. So, maintaining the battery for this should not cost a lot of money. I have one major complaint with the design of this and it has to do with the battery compartment. I realize that there is a spot to put your thumb to slide the blades open for use, but I tend to put my thumb directly onto the top which is where the battery compartment is. So, I almost always slide the cover off. I don't know why I do this and it probably has to do with the fact that I use other items that require that type of maneuvering, but it IS something that I do and other people might as well. Although it doesn't technically hurt anything to do that, the battery can (and will) pop right out of there if you don't catch yourself when you are doing it. For the most part I don't have problems with that happening, but I'm confident it will at some point. If there is any chance of this getting redesigned in the future, I would make it slide a different way so there is very little chance of accidentally sliding that cover off at all. It's a little irritating but not so much that I regret the purchase... because I really like this caliper! As for the price, I think it is well worth the money that I paid for it. I'll be using it like crazy to give some accurate measurements of items that I have seen incorrect information on and it will save me time and money on products that I try to create with my different machines. All I have to do is keep it away from my husband now!

I've had this Neiko tool for 3 years and have been very happy with the features of the caliper for my occasional use. It has all of the common standard measurements units at the push of a button. It can be zero-ed anywhere along the length. Although I can't comment of the precision of the absolute accuracy, measurements are repeatable. Easily perform inside measurements. Mine came with an extra battery, which was a nice touch.

I've had this micrometer for over three years, and it's still just as good as day one. I have one at work and one at the house, so it doesn't get used every day. It is used often enough, though. Neiko usually provides good tools.

Very nicely made Caliper. The added bonus of it showing fractions has already been a handy feature I have used a few times. The bottom line is this, if it became non-functional through my own carelessness, I would buy another no-question HOWEVER..... after two months of use I am finding the two font sized readout very annoying, Otherwise it has worked well but I do not understand why it was decided to make the second, third and fourth numbers after the decimal half the size . If someone only needs it for coarse measurement then having the first two numbers predominate makes sense but I personally find the two sized readout less than Ideal and I am looking at other calipers that show the readout all in full size

Very good quality build, comes with a beautiful storage case and accessories. The battery lasts very long and the screen is big and legible.

Received goods as described, shipping is per planned arrive date and a well packed shipment

Absolut schlechte Qualität, direkt zurück geschickt

El producto ha llegado en el plazo estipulado, bien protegido y en perfecto estado. Valoro su precisión en función del uso que le requería y hasta el momento responde perfectamente (para un uso profesional de mucha precisión entiendo que hay que ir a otra gama de precio). Me ha desconcertado que ni en el embalaje, ni en pequeño impreso de instrucciones, aparezcan referencias de la marca más allá del nombre y el logotipo. Me he informado en internet y NEIKO es una marca China de herramientas conocida, especialmente en EUA (que también fabrica en Taiwan). Buena relación calidad-precio.