ELI5, How are precision calibration tools, themselves calibrated?

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Feels like a chicken and egg senario. Let’s say I get my torque wrench from work sent off to be calibrated, and that’s calibrated with something itself needs to be calibrated, and so on and so fourth. How’s that figured out?

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in my college electronics classes measurement tools were calibrated with other precision tools. its called metrology. you have to use a tool thats a certain amout more accurate than the one youre calibrating and so on and so forth. in college we had little handheld old school analog meters. we also had the machine to calibrate them that took up an entire table and was heavy as hell.

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Feels like a chicken and egg senario. Let’s say I get my torque wrench from work sent off to be calibrated, and that’s calibrated with something itself needs to be calibrated, and so on and so fourth. How’s that figured out?

In: 430

27 Answers

Anonymous 0 Comments

in my college electronics classes measurement tools were calibrated with other precision tools. its called metrology. you have to use a tool thats a certain amout more accurate than the one youre calibrating and so on and so forth. in college we had little handheld old school analog meters. we also had the machine to calibrate them that took up an entire table and was heavy as hell.

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