Mine does too.The Beall wobbles on at least two sides
Mine does too.The Beall wobbles on at least two sides
I have the Wixey and am very satisfied with it.
Gary K.
You will get some error here, but it is very small. I will not attempt to lay out the math here, but you would see the movement well before the error is significant. Bottom line: If it looks 'veritcal' (perpendicular to the table in both axes) then you are close enough.
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Okay, I stand corrected on the Wixey not being a totally plastic case. However, I did not mean the reference to plastic as a 'slam' on the Wixey. There's really nothing wromg with having a plastic case. After all, nearly all your portable tools these days have plastic cases or housings - your drill, sabre saw, biscuit jointer, circular saw, etc. - and nobody blast them for it, so why should the Wixey be any different?
The metal case doesn't make the Beall any better - just different from the Wixey. Dropping either of them on a concrete floor will likely render them useless - regardless of case material, so what's the big deal?
The Beall uses a readily available battery. I might have to look a little harder to find a place that sells the Wixey's battery, but still, it's available at drug stores, Radio Shacks, maybe even K-Mart or Wal-Mart, so it's not a big problem.
Getting to the meat of my comparison: They're both equally accurate, at least in my uses for them. They're both about the same price, and they're both very useful tools.
I have the wixley. I like it.
You can get a false reading if you alter the 'pivot axis' when moving from surface to surface. This of course happens to some degree unless you're a robot. The tolerance seems very acceptable. The pivot would have to be significantly off to get a bad reading. I've found no problems eye-balling the correct position but have experimented on how far I have to go to get a bad reading; pretty far.
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Gary K.
Glenn, I can put the unit on my bench which is connect to the wall and not the floor and it will zero just fine. When I put it on my Ridgid sander table it will zero just fine, it is on a bench attached to the wall.
So it has to be the floor, if I set it on the saw and don't move for 30 sec. some times it will zero out, but then when I put it on the blade it jumps all over the place, it will go from .05 to .8 and back and forth.
I am sure that no one here has a shop setting on blocks like I have. It is just a Tuff Shed with 2"x6" galvanized steel floor joist and 3/4 in. plywood.
It almost sounds like you're looking for a problem with the Beall that doesn't really exist. Are you just trying to make a point that there is the possibility of error or have you actually experienced the problem? I've used mine for a while now and I haven't had any problem at all with keeping the unit in the same position. I don't even really think about it. I zero it, stick it to a blade, crank the blade over, read the numbers. Tilting it forwards or backwards a slight amount won't cause any significant error. I really don't see the problem. If you don't think it will work well then you probably shouldn't buy one. But if you do buy one I'm fairly certain that you'd be happy with it if you give it a chance. To each their own I guess.
Bruce
I just ordered one.
Normally I am not a gadget person but what the hell~~~~