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whats the differance between this and an Amature one..?
as I've never seen an amature one...
Professional Spirit Level (http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20080218.p.Professional_Spirit_Level.ar10)
http://www.lidl.co.uk/C1256C790050C7BC/images/GB.08_8588/$file/08_8588_b.jpg
are there anymore things out there that are so differant?
yorkie_chris
14-02-08, 10:34 PM
99p tools are always "heavy duty" too :-P
99p tools are always "heavy duty" too :-P
So true..
Pedro68
15-02-08, 10:44 AM
I think you'll find that in a professional spirit level the bubbles are calibrated to respond to gravity by much smaller margins and hence are more accurate :rolleyes:
Oh and I believe you can also use them on a hill and they still work :lol:
magicrat
15-02-08, 12:07 PM
I have a small spirit level on my bike keys - Could this be an amature spirit level?
Pedro68
15-02-08, 12:15 PM
I have a small spirit level on my bike keys - Could this be an amature spirit level?
No that's a smaller version of the professional spirit level but with a specific application ... that being to ensure you keep the bike "shiny side up" ;-)
Once when i was young, i got sent out to a local hardware shop to buy a new bubble for the spirit level and some tartan paint. However, the shop i went to was owned by my bosses friend who had prewarned him i was coming. He sent me back with some elbow grease and a long wait after an hour. DOOHHH what a fool i was!
timwilky
15-02-08, 12:23 PM
I guess amateur ones, only read level in one direction. IE. you level something the bubble is in the middle and you turn it round and the bubble has moved. don't laugh, my lad had one just like that, the bubble section was not installed parallel with the axis of the body.
Same with try squares. Draw a line and turn it over, is the line still parallel with the blade, or is the square not? etc.
magicrat
15-02-08, 12:30 PM
Once when i was young, i got sent out to a local hardware shop to buy a new bubble for the spirit level and some tartan paint. However, the shop i went to was owned by my bosses friend who had prewarned him i was coming. He sent me back with some elbow grease and a long wait after an hour. DOOHHH what a fool i was!
When I was a kid I sent my sister to the bicyclee repair shop for a length of fallopian tube...:-P
Pedro68
15-02-08, 01:08 PM
When I was a kid I sent my sister to the bicyclee repair shop for a length of fallopian tube...:-P
:smt044
Jayneflakes
15-02-08, 02:43 PM
When I was a kid I sent my sister to the bicyclee repair shop for a length of fallopian tube...:-P
Ooh yuk, that is nasty. One dreads to think what she came back with. :-k
magicrat
15-02-08, 04:42 PM
A bad temper is what she came back with.
yorkie_chris
16-02-08, 02:27 AM
Once when i was young, i got sent out to a local hardware shop to buy a new bubble for the spirit level and some tartan paint. However, the shop i went to was owned by my bosses friend who had prewarned him i was coming. He sent me back with some elbow grease and a long wait after an hour. DOOHHH what a fool i was!
The lad who worked with us is still looking for the spare sparks for the angle grinder. Quite hard to find a shop that sells them apparently. :-P
phil24_7
20-02-08, 05:04 PM
PMSL at this thread!
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