#PLUMB BOB LEVEL MANUAL#

The beam can form anything from 45 degree to 360 degree beams: More flexible are laser beams that scan or fan out to draw a line. Others are designed to be placed on the floor or on a tripod, shining a single vertical spot of light to align floor and ceiling tracks or baseplates.If the wall is uneven, the beam can be blocked after a few feet. Some are designed to be hung on the wall, with the lasers pressed up against the wall to draw a line on the wall.The simplest tools have 1 to 3 fixed lasers (up or down, left or right): Single Point, 180 Degrees, 360 Degrees and Multiway Laser Beams The laser should also be lockable for storage and transportation, when the device is switched off.It should be possible to lock the laser to stop it from self-leveling, to mark a sloped line.Cheaper undamped lasers will keep on swinging for a while. Damped lasers will settle down more quickly.There should be a warning (flashing laser or dotted line) if the laser is too far out of level (more than 4 to 6 degrees) and cannot self-level.Accuracy can be as high as 1/4 inch at 30 (sometimes up to 100) feet.

The laser is allowed to swing freely inside the device, like a pendulum: More sophisticated laser levels are self-leveling.

#PLUMB BOB LEVEL MANUAL#

Some time is saved by not having to run a chalkline, but the manual leveling takes just as long as with a non-laser device. The device is manually leveled by adjusting its slope until the bubble in the tube of liquid is centered. Simpler and cheaper laser levels are basically laser pointers attached to a standard carpenter’s spirit or torpedo level. Auto Self-leveling Versus Manual Bubble Spirit Level Popular brands include Black & Decker (Bullseye), Strait-Line, Trimble (Spectra), Johnson, Ryobi (Airgrip), CST Berger, Checkpoint, Topcon, PLS Pacific Laser Systems, Stabila, Bosch, Leica and Stanley. Prices range from $20 to a few hundred dollars. There are different types of laser levels, for different budgets and requirements.

Laser levels (sometimes misspelled as “lazer”) use laser beams instead of chalklines to mark plumb (vertical) and horizontal lines for hanging pictures, tiling walls, hanging wallpaper, putting up shelves, fencing: almost any home or construction site job.

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