Re: Laser Measuring Devices for Field Work

From: <Dennie>
Date: Tue Oct 19 2004 - 07:48:00 EDT

The glasses I refer to are yellow tinted and made of a plastic type material. They are styled like some safety glasses, but I don't think they are approved for use as safety galsses. They allow the wearer to see the little red dot better in a facility's better lighter areas.

"C.Y L" <l_c_y1999@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi There, where can I buy this thing? and is it allowed to use in the refinary?

Thanks

Robert liu

Paul Bowers <pbowers@pipingdesign.com> wrote:

Dennie Mosta wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> For what its worth. a company I used to work had a handheld Laser measuring
device for us our doing field work. It was made, or ay least sold by, the Hilti company. It was very versatile and accurate. This was three years ago and I believe the price then was about $650. They have come down, but not enough for me to afford a good one for personal use. I would love to have one. The only problems I remember when using it was, even wearing the laser enhancing glasses, it was sometimes difficult to find the little red dot when using outdoors or a brightly lighted facility. Also, if you set it on a surface that may be vibrating from machiney running even little bit, it would be difficut to aim the red dot where you wanted it. Anyway, I found it to be a very useful instrument. Evidently others found it useful also, you had to reserve it days in advance in order to get it. With it, I was able to get measurements affecting my design that I would normally been unable to ac
quire. I
> think it beats the heck out of a steel tape measure.
>
> Dennis

I'm not sure what you mean when you refer to having to wear special glasses, that's completely nerdlike. I wear those all the time.

My experience with these things is that they are really useful (when I'm out in the field I like to depend on myself and not someone else).

Lasing a moving target would seem to be a bad idea and I wouldn't expect that to reflect reality. My experience with these things is that those that have access to them tend to jealously guard them.

One problem I've always seen when doing field work is communicating to the other end of the tape measure. And yes, I've "trogolyted" with a transit for elevation, that's never been the problem. Now that I recall it, I probably have forgotten.

Paul



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