OT: Best Laser Level

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

20 feet of clear plastic tubing and some colored water?

This is on a wall inside a house and I need the intermediate points to be accurate. ...Jim Thompson

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Add a cheap B&D laser level to the hose method, that way you can mark the intermediate points.

We have a digital Mitoyo level, even that is only good for a .2 deg being that its pretty short. Over a 15' span that quite a bit.

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Rent one from HomeDepot

20 feet of clear plastic tubing, some colored water, and string? I know you're asking about a laser level, but my experience with them is limited to when my boss got one, returned it because it wasn't accurate enough for him, got a more expensive one, returned it too, then finally got an extremely expensive one he was finally happy with. Maybe a cheap laser level, 20 feet of clear plastic tubing and some colored water?

Den torsdag den 4. maj 2017 kl. 19.21.21 UTC+2 skrev Jim Thompson:

a water level is accurate anywhere the tubing will reach, you can draw as many intermediate points you like by moving around one end

See my post -- use the water level to mark reference points (to an accuracy measured in actual linear dimensions -- how finely can you resolve the location of the meniscus -- instead of percent deviation; water is "conserved" in the level!).

Then, use a rotary level to "connect the dots" (or, a linear laser level if you're only interested in a two point spread). "Angle" is conserved by the laser :>

You don't trust the string balance level? Here's one for twice the going price, must be twice as accurate!

If you don't trust the answer reverse it for a check.

Mikek

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Snap a chalk line? GH

A hunk of Tygon tubing and a little water works like a champ, too.

So use any old cheap laser to connect the dots. ...or just move the tubing a couple of times.