>anon, why didn't you just buy a stabila like chad? we don't date guys who buy their levels from home depot.
>anon, why didn't you just buy a stabila like chad?
>anon, why didn't you just buy a stabila like chad? we don't date guys who buy their levels from home depot.
none of the shops around me carry them and ordering tools on the internet is for urbanites
I got a klien because I'm a chad electrician.
>klien
ok grandpa, Wera is what the cool kids use
>implying I would even touch any of you sows with a 4' empire level
>paying more money gets you premium bubble physics
Paying for the yellow means your level will last 20 years instead of 5 years
>pay 10x the price for 4x the longevity
many such cases
i buy my jeans from costco for $10 on sale and a pair will last me about a year before it falls apart. sure, i could get some nice levis for $80, but they will fall apart after 5 years. 8x the price for 5x the longevity, i'd rather keep buying the costco jeans.
yea well maybe don't use it as a hammer and it'd last decades you moron
I don't like the yellow, I prefer the red that Milwaukee uses.
The Blue Milwaukees (Empire) work just fine
It always bothers me that the c**t in the glasses isn't looking the right way
>anon what's a level? you mean like a ruler?
Get on my level thots
>0,5mm/m
I could eyeball that
I use mitutoyo master levels.
>0.0005" per foot precision
Get on my level, gays
Pun intended
I really beat you to it,
, but slow board hive mind.
But, pic related looks like it’s on literal foam. Show me a pic of your low g god tier level?
https://www.mitutoyo.com/products/small-tool-instruments-and-data-management/instruments-and-reference-gages/reference-gages/inch-precision-level/
> Adjustment set screw makes calibration simple
Oops forgot to post - whaaaat??? A level that has to be calibrated? Im so confused
it's cast iron (presumably flattened at the bottom)
Pic looks like foam but I’ll take your word for it. Now explain why a level would need calibration screws, and how you could calibrate such a level
it looks like iron if you know what iron looks like
calibration is needed for all precision measuring devices
shit never gets produced perfect and then you get warping etc over time so you recalibrate
same as all other "reasonably" priced calibration, with an extremely expensive reference
calibration of the reference is the hard part
Beat me to it? You must be a bot, humans dont make mistakes so glaring. You posted a pic of a construction level, those are good to .020"/ft at best.
I also use starret levels, these are so sensitive they'll send the bubble flying if you breathe on them. Excuse the shitty pic
They are cast iron and lapped or scraped flat. There is an adjustment screw to calibrate them to true level if you have access to a metrology lab.
>There is an adjustment screw to calibrate them to true level if you have access to a metrology lab.
Looks like someone has no fricking clue what his level is actually used for
Many such cases.
SAD!
To compare the levelness of and objects surface relative to gravitational pull - of course! That was easy! I am ready for the next question!
I do precision work, enormous multinational corps pay me to fix their shit. I think your hung up on the calibration aspect? Honest question, I'm happy to answer any questions people have.
Pic related is inside a steam turbine, the rotors are out and the casing was re-assembled to asses some alignment issues.
Starret master levels are built specifically for 'leveling' machine tools, which is the process of making them planar not actually level.
This many times involves calibrating the level to the machine itself to get relative readings.
Getting true level doesnt need a metrology lab anyways.
Makes sense, we use them to measure pads for machines / motors / pumps to sit on. They all have to be less than .002"/ft of eachother as if they were all on a single plane despite there being anywhere from 2 to 8 of them. We also use them for alignment and checking height differences if they don't want to pay for laser measurement.
The metrology lab is absolutely essential to keep them certified, each level is calibrated/compared to a standard which is compared its master and so on all the way up. Its done on a recurring schedule (or of someone drops one).Its more or less just a paper trail if there is ever a disagreement.
>The metrology lab is absolutely essential to keep them certified
Yeah, you need a lab to verify that the divisions are actually as accurate as specified, but you don't need a lab to find true level.
https://www.shars.com/media/manuals/master_precision_level_calibration_instructions.pdf
Yeah we make adjustments in the field like that too. Thanks for the manual, I can take that to my dumbass workmates so they stop crawling up my ass about methods.
Sometimes I use gauge blocks and sine bar to set the starrets "level" at 0°37' or whatever spec they need and then use those to dial in the machine "level" to that angled plane. Mark one side with an x and align them with a compass. Magic.
My level says right on it, .05mm/m, and it’s an actual project where it’s on the bubble. Get on my level thot
kek, I kneel
>made in brazil
The company bought them at an auction for cheap well before I was employed there. Your assumption tells me about you though
I bought Empire, because made in the usa at Home Depot is GOAT tier
I like the yellow, blue, and red ones.
Have used ancient unnamed ones too.
I don't like it when the bubble has been painted or mudded over somehow.
I got the Irwin blue with the alumonum body with the 1.5° bump out cause...... It wasnt plastic? Didnt like the others and stabilia is too curvy, couldnt get any work done with the eye of sauron staring at me
>anon, why didn't you just buy a...
because i dont fricking want to
Stabila sounds like some hipster youtube woodworker brand. One of my acquaintances was gushing about them. Looking at pics it has the same 3-segment spirit bubble that every level uses. For its reputation I was kind of expecting a graduated bubble like on a machinist's level.
I just use a cheap husky laser level for my shit and it's good enough.
>doesn't know what stabila is
Let's see 'your shit' then you frickin hack
Thanks but no, I'm not a professional, and I'm not showing anything online to be scrutinized by some Black person butthurt that his favourite brand of level didn't get the proper due reverence.
Let me guess, you need more?