So far for me I am using the ears for the engine mounts.. I touch them up with a 4" disc on my die grinder for a flat surface.. this would be my known thickness point to test... but I'm still playing with my new tester... havent played much lately being I have stuff thats not working on my junker... soon I will get back to testing blocks since I have a few I want to look at for up coming jobs... but so far I havent ever seen some of the numbers posted