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This is a great product for getting the angle on you miter saw and table saw very accurate.
Plus, it's pocket size so he can take it anywhere. This little gadget is perfect for the woodworking Husband. It helps him to find the angle on his blade to make sure he's getting the perfect cut. It also comes with the batteries. Highly recommend.
I compared it to a Bosch digital angle gauge and it measured the same. I bought this WR300 because I need to check the cut angles on a number of power tools that I have. It works quite well, easy and fast to use. It only has 2 drawbacks, it only measures Relative angles (between say the saw table and the blade) not Absolute and for me it is too small. If you need to check the cut angle on a table saw, this device will work quite well.
The benefits the other brands had was that both had a level feature to measure the absolute angle with the ground, in addition to the relative angle measurement. The others used a common 9-volt battery, where the Wixey uses a "watch" style battery.
It seems much more sensitive to changes than the other brands. I have compared the Wixey with 2 other brands of digital angle guages, and came away feeling the Wixey produces the best results.
One of the others I looked at couldn't even hold it's place on my saw blade without sliding down. I could slowly adjust my angle with the other boxes and then eventually they would "jump" to a new measurement, where the Wixey seemed to measure even the slightest change in angle and was fluid in it's measurements.
It is also the smallest and lightest of the 3 I compared, and has nice strong magnets that hold it in place. It will be interesting to see how often they need changed, and how much of a pain it will be when a spare watch battery isn't in the house.
The other boxes were made of sturdier metal, but I don't foresee the Wixey having problems if you treat it as the precision instrument it is.
I bought this little device for aligning my table and chop saw blades at 90 degrees to the tables.Can I say that this only takes about a minute using this device. Since buying it I have added the Wixey calipers, height guage and 8 inch digital protractor and am just fitting the Wixey digital fence to my table saw. Reason for this is that (apart from the angle guage - obviously) all of the Wixey linear measurement products read out in fractions of an inch as well as decimal places. This makes woodworking set up EASY.Great products thanks for making my life easier in the workshop - now I get more time to actually cut wood as opposed to fiddling around setting things up.
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