Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Moisture Meter
Dennis Bilevich PRESCOTT AZ
>What Moisture Meter do you recommend and why? Do you recommend pin type or pinless. Where would you suggest I buy a Moisture Meter? I will be using it mainly to measure roughed in bowl blanks. Thank you in advance,
Dennis
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TD
>McAfee has one for $59 that works fine.
TD
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Dennis Bilevich PRESCOTT AZ
>TD Is There A WEB SITE For McAFEE
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Mark Kauder, Phenix City, AL
>I think TD meant McFreelys.
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Russ Fairfield
>You have a functional moisture meter as close as the cheek on your face. If the piece of wood feels cool when it held to your cheek it is wet, if there is no sensation of "cool", then the wood is at equilibrium moisture content.
It will take some practice to develop your feel for the wood, and your "reading" will be influenced by the temperature of the wood, the smoothness of the surface, and the shape of the contact area.
Imprecise?? Yes. But so are the moisture meters because they are influenced by the same factors as your cheek.
The question of pins/no pins depends on whether you want holes in the wood or not. The pin type is the more accurate because it measures the moisture below the surface of the wood between the pins.
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Dale Cook
>I also was looking into a moisture meter but along came this alcohol drying process so instead picked up a postal scale on e-bay for about 25 bucks and it will read to the 10th of an oz. It took only 12 days to get to zero weight loss on a 12 inch boxelder burl bowl.
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John Lucas
>Dennis
I looked at moisture meters but I just weigh my bowls and write the weight on them. When they stop losing weight they are dry.
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Larry
>Woodcraft has a pin meter that I use on roughed bowl blanks for about $35. Pinless are hard to use on rough turned because there is usually no flat surface. They are more for boards.
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Ron in Drums PA
>I have both, a pinned and pinless
I like this one the best (pinless): Wagner L609
Reason: It's readings are unaffected by temperature or surrounding humidity
Now Russ ....
Fred in NC
>Just don't do that in front of the wife... they get jealous at times . . .
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Dennis Bilevich PRESCOTT AZ
>Thanks For all your help. Dennis
