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"Using My AngleCube" in Woodworking Tool Review

JPG wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:46 pm Can I correctly conclude that when rotated to ANY angle from 0° to 180°, the arrow only indicates the initial deviation from level as it initially was rotated? (0° to 360°?) i.e. clockwise, left side up, an up arrow, and counter clockwise right side up a down arrow regardless of the final/current positioning?

IF I understand your question correctly, then yes. Once you start rotating it from 0°, the arrow that illuminates stays on until you get to 180°. At that point, that arrow turns off and the other arrow turns on. The arrows are just a tilt indicator...that is all they do, so from 0-90° the arrow indicates tilt, but from 90-180° the arrow has no purpose and stays stuck on whatever setting it was on from 0-90°.

JPG wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:46 pm Can I correctly conclude that when rotated to ANY angle from 0° to 180°, the arrow only indicates the initial deviation from level as it initially was rotated? (0° to 360°?) i.e. clockwise, left side up, an up arrow, and counter clockwise right side up a down arrow regardless of the final/current positioning?

Yes, 0 - 180. At 180 the arrow flips. The Wixey does not directly indicate an angle greater than 180.

- David

This post is hopelessly confusing to me. There are so many pictures from so many directions and it isn't apparent in all of them what direction they are taken from or what they are showing. Call it M.C. Escher's shorty.

Lotta truth(s) here Al!

Thank You RF and DLB.

DLB wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 1:05 pm

JPG wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 12:46 pm Can I correctly conclude that when rotated to ANY angle from 0° to 180°, the arrow only indicates the initial deviation from level as it initially was rotated? (0° to 360°?) i.e. clockwise, left side up, an up arrow, and counter clockwise right side up a down arrow regardless of the final/current positioning?

Yes, 0 - 180. At 180 the arrow flips. The Wixey does not directly indicate an angle greater than 180.

- David

Make me a believer! Post a picture of a Wixey that was zeroed on the horizontal and then rotated to 135 degrees.

dusty wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 2:34 pm Make me a believer! Post a picture of a Wixey that was zeroed on the horizontal and then rotated to 135 degrees.

I'll have to go look at your other thread. I take it that the angle cube does something else.

- David

I just want to know how you got the Wixey to stick magnetically to the aluminum table!

algale wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 3:35 pm I just want to know how you got the Wixey to stick magnetically to the aluminum table!

Those optional direct read magnetic strips! I don't really use direct read, but they work for this.

- David

Yes the anglecube does something different - see the other thread.