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August 12, 2017 18:07

Putting laser level from scrap materials

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in buying expensive leveling for domestic use does not make sense, becauseThis device costs a lot of money.If you need to draw a horizontal straight line on the wall, you can make the laser level with his own hands, using the materials at hand, that there are in any private home.Then we two simple master class on making homemade leveling manually, which takes no more than half an hour.

Contents:
  • Option №1 - Use a flat rack
  • Option №2 - Use a container of water

Option №1 - Use a flat rack

Pointer

In the first case, in order to make the device yourself, we need the following materials:

  • ordinary laser pointer (shown in the picture above; if you are not lying around from previous years, you can buy, the price is small);
  • Bubble building level;
  • wooden peg length of 1 to 1.3 meters, a diameter of 5 to 6 cm;
  • a small piece of rubber;
  • sheet of plywood or board level along the length.

Materials for the assembling

prepare all the materials, you can begin to assemble an improvised device.To make it more clear how to make a laser level with your hands, offer step by step guide:

  1. Prepare a laser pointer.To light was more bright and crisp, punch a piece of glass in the nozzle.To do this, cover the cardboard packing and carefully break the glass.
  2. will improve the building level.On top of the instrument needs to be fixed pointer, which is better to use clamps.To further has little opportunity to adjust the direction of the laser beam, place and level pointer between a piece of rubber, as shown in FIG.Scheme of work
  3. Putting stand.First, one of the ends of the bar must sharpen that it went well into the soil.After this, from the peg and a sheet of plywood to collect reliable stand with their hands, screwing sheet to the second end of the bar with screws.Please note that the plywood should be fastened strictly perpendicular, otherwise the measurement accuracy leaves much to be desired.

That's the instruction on manufacturing.As you can see, a simple laser level to make your hands is not difficult, but the problem is that a home-made can not be installed on a hard surface, such as concrete screed.To solve this problem, it is possible from the second end of the peg as smoothly fasten the board, which will serve as the base.Besides it is possible to make the stand, as in the present leveling, but manufacturing the tripod takes longer.

three-legged

Enjoy this homemade device is not difficult from a laser pointer.First support is driven into the ground, after which the bubble level is leveled - a vial should be strictly in the middle.Next, the pointer should be included, and projected on the wall point to note in pencil.Thereafter stand gently rotated on an axis in the horizontal plane to the next mark.Two points are interconnected and all - a flat line on the wall is ready, you can begin the installation of electrical wiring!

Immediately it should be noted that you should not rush out and start the markers important works from the beginning.The first thing you need to ensure the correct operation of home-made, so that the result did not disastrous for you.To do this, you need to make the adjustment homemade laser level (in other words, to verify the accuracy of the work).

himself to make the adjustment, you can:

  1. in a sheet of plywood, on which a level, you need to tighten the screw, not more than 120 mm in length.The cap screw must coincide with the line projecting laser pointer, as shown in the drawing.Driving adjustments
  2. Next, you need to include a pointer and point at one of the walls, and then make an appropriate note in pencil.At this point do not fully tighten the second screw.
  3. Now the cap screwed screws carefully installed under the profile of drywall or any other strap, lightweight.
  4. On profile is installed homemade laser level and, if required, the bar is aligned in a horizontal plane on the basis of the bubble.Alignment is necessary to make tilting up / down the edge of the profile which is located close to the wall.
  5. Aligning the profile on the level, you need to screw in a new screw in the wall, if required, and then remove the profile.
  6. Eventually, homemade level set on the stand and pointer is adjusted to the new point (hat screws).Now your device is exposed to an ideal level.

With this homemade laser device can independently make the horizontal lines to be embedded wiring in the house.But do not be too hard to trust the accuracy of the measurements, asthis is not a professional tool and the error is quite high.

Video review of more complex self-regulating model type cross
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How do you level with your hands?
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Option №2 - Use a container of water

second way to make a laser level with their own hands - to use as an indicator of the water surface is horizontal.All you need is to find a suitable size container, for example, a bowl and pour it under the water's edge.Next, we need to take a piece of foam and attach strictly middle pointer.After this capacity should be set at the level of the future line and put in the water foam with a pointer.Turn on home-made and mark the point on the wall, turning the laser in the right direction.In the video example, all stages of homemade leveling assembly are provided in detail in the water:

master class on creating a simple device

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The lack of such a level that you need to properly center the location of the pointer.Otherwise, it will be a little skewed in one of the sides that appear negatively on the horizontal beam.

Here we have provided two walkthroughs on how to manually make the laser level at home.Model of the cross to collect the type of difficult (when built intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines at the given point), but still under the walls to mark shtroblenie such a device suitable good!By the way, to make a vertical line on the surface, it is recommended to use the most common plummet (as shown in photo), suspended from the ceiling.

Using a plummet
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