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cd365

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Coventry, uk
Not to mention the long weight.
I actually sent a girl in our office, who had worked here for 4 years to a colleague to show her a long weight, she actually went!! It caused a lot of amusement when she had gone!
 

Night Train

Maker of Things
Stabila. No arguments. Best bubbles in the business.

Go to a proper builder's merchants (not B&Q etc) and you'll likely find a "gift pack" with two or three levels.
+1

Most of my levels are old and good. Mine are 10", 2', 3', 4', 6' lengths.

Do check, even the good ones, that the bubble is level though.
Dad bought a cheap Aldi level and set the conservatory windows, onto the dawarf walls he built, with it. When I fitted the radiator under the window board there was 3/4" out of level over the 4' radiator top. I couldn't have the radiator on a slant and the conservatory was finished so I couldn't demolish and start that again.
I showed Dad how far out his level was. It is better suited for setting the fall on drains I think!
 
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rodgy-dodge

rodgy-dodge

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Cheers again guys I'm going off to buy it tomorrow looks like I'll get him the stabila, some of you are cruel btw...I remember when I was 16 being sent off for a long stand! :giggle:
 

Doseone

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Location
Brecon
Not to mention the long weight.

I got done on that as a kid. One of my first jobs, about 13 years old, saturday boy in our local butchers. I can remember it now..."our scales have broken, could you pop next door and ask for a long weight". They thought it was hilarious. That and locking me in the fridge.
 

Night Train

Maker of Things
When I was first on building sites I never fell for the jokes but did watch the plumbers blow torching shillings and dropping them on the pavement to laugh at people trying to pick them up.
 

Milo

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Melksham, Wilts
We used to stick a pound coin on the floor with epoxy or something (as kids) One day one smart chap returned 5 minutes later with a hammer and chisel.
 

XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
*ahem*

We (and that is the royal "we") has a number of levels, ranging in size from iddy-biddy all the way up to 8 foot.

An 8-footer (gufaw!) makes it soooo much quicker and easier to lay a patio than fiddling around with pegs and bits of string! (lay a slab, plonk the level on, lay next slab, plonk the level on both slabs, etc!)
 

XmisterIS

Purveyor of fine nonsense
Yeah, but we're talking about a wall, not a floor.

So we are ... :shy:
... I will spank myself at once, Madam ...
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I hope it wasn't a dumpy level he was after. And I know that dumpies are old school, replaced by modern automatics, but I still think of them as dumpies.
Of course, you'd need to buy a staff, and a chain boy too but it is christmas....
 

slowmotion

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lost somewhere
Stabila were the gold standard about five years ago, and probably still are. I have a 1.8 metre Type 96-2 which is a joy for setting out shelves and worktops, and a bit useful in the garden too. For long range stuff up to about 40 metres, I bought a Stabila lazer level when they first came out about 10 years ago. Blooming accurate but a fiddle to set up. I'm sure that things have improved vastly since then.

Do not by anything in a DIY shed, or a builders' merchant. Buy tools at an online tool website having Googled the tool model. I know it's cruel, but you will save a lot of money.
 

Canrider

Guru
I hope it wasn't a dumpy level he was after. And I know that dumpies are old school, replaced by modern automatics, but I still think of them as dumpies.
Of course, you'd need to buy a staff, and a chain boy too but it is christmas....
sniffff...

Give me a dumpy, and a cohort of undergraduates, and I will measure the world.
 
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