In order to measure these clearances, you must use a precision measurement tool…there is no other way. Of course, mention precision tools and you also have to acknowledge that they aren't cheap. But ...

The first successful domestic development of a high-end, high-precision automated balancing machine capable of automatically and accurately measuring and correcting minute mass imbalances in rotating ...

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