Digital Angle Gauge

[hemdale]

The name says it all, what's you input on this ?

I was considering this little guy: http://www.axminster.co.uk/gemred-digital-bevel-box

However, I'm open to any suggestion if you guys use anything better / more accurate.

Cheers,

Hem

 

[Tim37]

I was looking at those I think it would be real handy but the tolerances are a little loose for my liking. If you can be happy with +-1° I think it would be great

 

[larry_g]

A friend brought one of those over and we could not make it repeatable. It had some 3-5 degrees of hysteresis. He sent it back. I'm sure there are some good ones out there but the little block style like that he had was not acceptable for the work we were doing.

To check it one of the things I did was stick it to a leg of a precision square on the granite surface plate and zero it out. Then rotate the square 90* so the other leg was on the granite to see if it would read 90* It was within a degree or two but when rotated back and it should have read 0 but it was off some. So if you get one check that it does what it is supposed to do.

lg
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[exmaxima1]

The name says it all, what's you input on this ?

I was considering this little guy: http://www.axminster.co.uk/gemred-digital-bevel-box

However, I'm open to any suggestion if you guys use anything better / more accurate.

Cheers,

Hem

I use a similar model with my homemade knife sharpener to set the bevel angles. I zero it on the blade and then adjust the "stones" to the desired angle. Much easier than calculating or using a protractor.

 

[Sal Bandini]

Accuracy is 0.1, not 1.

It looks like my Wixey gauge and mine is repeatable. You aren't going to get any more accurate than that plus that price is about what the other brands go for.

 

[woody 73]

Hem Hi,

Can you buy Starrett products in your home Country? They make very good quality products.

http://www.starrett.com/catalogs

 

[Tim37]

Accuracy is 0.1, not 1.

It looks like my Wixey gauge and mine is repeatable. You aren't going to get any more accurate than that plus that price is about what the other brands go for.

I will have to do more research I though I had read 1° i could live with .1° for a lot of things

 

[larry_g]

Accuracy is 0.1, not 1.

It looks like my Wixey gauge and mine is repeatable. You aren't going to get any more accurate than that plus that price is about what the other brands go for.

The add says RESOLUTION is .1 degree. That has nothing to do with accuracy or repeatability. And I said in my above post the one I had hands on was not near +/- 1 degree. The one I had hands on was a different brand.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[A_Pmech]

What do you want to do with it?

A Hilger & Watts vernier clinometer can be had inexpensively if you watch Ebay regularly.

 

[Colin Len]

Looks like a neat little gauge, I haven't seen small ones like that before. We started using these years ago for work - we used them for determining things like roof pitch. We don't need them to be super accurate though for most things.

More recently I added one to a cheap level I cut to size so that I could measure my own camber and help do my own alignments at home. Worked great even if it was a bit ghetto looking.

 

[Sal Bandini]

The add says RESOLUTION is .1 degree. That has nothing to do with accuracy or repeatability. And I said in my above post the one I had hands on was not near +/- 1 degree. The one I had hands on was a different brand.

lg
no neat sig line

True, I didn't read correctly.

However, my Wixey gauge looks exactly like that with resolution of 0.1 and accuracy of 0.2. It is very repeatable as I check various angles it returns to zero at my reference every time.

http://www.wixey.com/anglegauge/#wr300type2

 

[hemdale]

Hi Woody73,

Sorry I haven't replied sooner. Starrett products aren't that easy to find in Paris but I think I'll go for the inclinometer from CMT. Give 2 secs to find the link [emoji2]


Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

 

[hemdale]

Here is the inclinometer I'm talking about:
http://www.cmtutensili.com/show_items.asp?pars=PJJ~DAG-001~2


Envoyé de mon iPhone en utilisant Tapatalk

 

[toddoky]

My Go-to angle measuring device is now my iPhone with the clinometer app, it is as accurate as any other angle device I've used, is backlit and provides audible results as well as visual.

 

[Ign]

I've got the Craftsman level w built in angle gage...mine is roughly 12" long. I'd say its readily repeatable within .2 and if you let it sit for 5-10 seconds almost always within .1.

It shows the temperature when you first turn it on, always found that odd and yet somewhat useful, or at least informative.