DataSure Wireless Data Collection -- Five Questions & Answers New Starrett Full Line Catalog 31 Gladiator Blades Help Production Job Services, Inc. Take On Tough Jobs Evolution and Variations of the Slide Caliper "Made in America" Visits Starrett in Athol Tru-Stone -- Starrett's Newest Division Today's Optical Comparator -- It's not your Grandfather's Shadowgraph! Hidden Edge -- A Different Kind of Utility Knife

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First Word Welcome to the first edition of the Last Word, a quarterly online newsletter. While our potential subject matter is as broad as our product line and as deep as our history, we will attempt to limit it to things that we think you will find most interesting. In this issue, we include an application profile, a story about our newest division (Tru-Stone), a quick overview of our DataSure® Wireless Data Collection System, two features about current product lines and their roots, and a few short subjects of a general nature. Future editions will include a mix of application, product, technical, and news stories. We would love to hear from you with ideas for articles, information about how you use our products, family history of a Starrett tool, and anything you may want to share with other users about your applications. To communicate with us, please email: advertising@starrett.com. You are receiving this E-Newsletter either because you requested it on our website, or we obtained your email address from one of several types of requests you made to Starrett over the past year or two. We certainly do not want to clutter your inbox with something you don't care about, so if you don't want to receive future editions of Last Word, use the link below to unsubscribe.

DataSure Wireless Data Collection -- Five Questions & Answers 1) What is DataSure? DataSure is a data collection system that is made up of very small radio packs that attach to tools, and a Gateway receiver that attaches to a PC... (Click Here to see the full article)  The New Starrett Full Line Catalog No. 31 is Now Available The new Starrett Full Line Catalog No. 31 has recently become available. This catalog replaces Catalog 125 issued in 2005, and several editions of Catalog 30 published between 2001 and 2004 ... (Click Here to see the full article) Gladiator Blades Help Production Job Services Take On Tough Jobs At Production Job Services, Inc., (PJS) of Brookfield, WI, company President Peter Smith considers challenging metal cutting jobs as the company's bread and butter. Mr. Smith considers two factors to be key in success with these jobs. They are: (1) careful planning before the cut, and (2) carefully selecting the saw blade that provides optimum throughput ... (Click Here to see the full article)  Evolution and Variations of the Slide Caliper The cover of the newest Starrett Full Line Catalog (No. 31) has a picture of a coolant-proof (IP65) Starrett 797 electronic caliper. It includes a DataSure End Node plugged into its output port that will send data to a host computer with the touch of a button. This represents the state-of-art for the slide caliper, a tool that has been around for many years. ... (Click Here to see the full article)   Starrett Profiled on John Ratzenberger's Made In America On January 9, 2007, The Travel Channel's Made In America premiered a new segment featuring The L.S. Starrett Company. Using material shot on July 5, 2006 at Starrett's Athol, MA world headquarters, host and executive producer John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin of Cheers fame) highlighted several aspects of the sprawling manufacturing facility. ... (Click Here to see the full article)  Tru-Stone -- Starrett's Newest Division is a Leader in Custom Granite Applications Tru-Stone Technologies of Waite Park, Minnesota joined The L.S. Starrett family of companies in May of 2006. Tru-Stone is a leader in custom engineering and manufacturing of high-precision granite machine bases and accessories for major producers of semiconductor, flat panel display, advanced microelectronics, aerospace, automotive, medical, optical ... (Click Here to see the full article) Today's Optical Comparator -- It's not your Grandfather's Shadowgraph! Optical comparators are known by several names, but years ago, they were most commonly called  shadowgraphs … the last decade or so, increasingly powerful digital readouts (DROs) have been developed, these offer the user the ability to measure geometric … (Click Here to see the full article) Hidden Edge -- A Different Kind of Utility Knife With a radically different design and a range of innovative features, the Hidden Edge® Utility Knife is a rare case where a new version of a common tool is clearly superior to what came before ... (Click Here to see the full article)