Ricós@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org , please help: I'm going to start looking into which laser level I'll buy when I'm not piss poor.
What are the key things I should consider? I just want it to be durable and reliable, a good tool, but I see wildly different prices and I don't trust strangers on the net anymore. Thank you 🙏
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua@enriquericos@mastoart.social
If you can access the Lidl supermarket chain their laser levels are not too crappy and the price is reasonable, but you have to wait for the DIY week in your country.
https://www.lidl.it/p/parkside-performance-livella-laser-a-croce-ricaricabile/p10062264
They are not "pro" (lines 3 mm wide, long stabilization time), but for jobs like bricklaying, not requiring surveyor precision, they are good enough.
If you want precision, I noticed often it's possible to find 2nd hand optical tacheometers for less than 100 €.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacheometry#Tacheometer
Ricós@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org I have a Lidl very close, but I'm afraid precise lines is exactly what I'll need, and of course that had to be the thing that makes them expensive 😩
I would never thought about optical tacheometers! Thanks a lot, I knew you'd know this kind of stuff 🙂
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua@enriquericos@mastoart.social
In the mid '80 I wrote a program for a friend, to transfer data from his fancy electronic tacheometer (priced like a Mercedes) to a DXF file, to feed a pirate copy of Autocad 2.something.
And I made it with TurboPascal on a 486 
Ricós@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org 😅
That must have been a cool, useful hack.
Also, I thought you were much younger, I was a baby in the mid 80s
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua@enriquericos@mastoart.social
😄
Just today I tooted something about the time I was in Rome…and I realized it was 45 years ago 🤣
David W. Jones@GustavinoBevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org
Heading to 24 years since first visit to Paris. And 47 years since last time I lived in Yellowstone National Park.
Where does the time go?! 😲
@enriquericos@mastoart.social