Digital level
thomd
>Opened it yesterday, though it was really just on order for the shop, but took a while to come so it got added to the presents. I used to have a principle that one could never have too many measuring tools. I guess that's true, but over time they really have multiplied in weird and wonderful variety, beyond what I could accept without the odd laugh. I also beleive you can never be too accurate, it's more like if you measure it, you can work to it. That said, the digital level did not catch my eye when it first came on the market.
The promise of the digital level is that unlike bubble levels it easily displays results in .1 degrees. Mostly I expect this to be useful for jobs like making bike frames, or even boat building, where configuring parts in space is a large part of the game. However with sufficient accuracy it should also prove useful in place of winding sticks and other measurement tools like squares. Actualy I think winding sticks are very accurate, come to that. But imagine being able to straighten a board with reliable angle information from anywhere on the board. One could easily identify twist or rises and hollows anywhere on the board, without requiring space to sight them.
First plan is to crawl all over the floor, feet, and top, of my bench to actually set it up dead level in every respect. Just gettig level is one thing but I should be able to track the source of any problems (don't think I have much to worry about), to the floor, the various structural elements etc...
