I know I've seen those bubble levels on a grader for sale somewhere. I cant find one. Just a magnetic one that's big enough to see from the cab. Anybody use one or know who sells them?
Slope-Meter: http://www.slopemeter.com/
Our Cat dealer has the slope meters on hand not magnetic but easy to mount Have used some motorhome levels also not nearly as good but cheap
you mean like this? I bought 6 slopmeters and mounted them to heavy duty magnets. ( been selling them to other operators in the area) I compare the slopemeter to a bubble level to see if it has moved on the brackets and also compare the mounting spot on the machine to make sure they are the same
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I've seen the slope meters. Not a big fan. Although they do the job. And I saw the camper levels and thought about that route. I can picture a silver or gray one with a big bubble in it someone had on a grader or dozer and it was magnetized. Just can't remember where i saw it. That's what I was hoping for, guess I will have to settle for something else. Thanks All.
There's nothing preventing a clever man from drilling a coupla 1/4" holes through the side of a bubble level (either camper or machine level), and inserting a coupla 1/4" super magnets, like these: https://www.apexmagnets.com/1-4-x-1...nboX-oXNjYqcRLbdL-1Lm7PzA9LRqtcgaAk3lEALw_wcB into the level. OR, HF has these, fer about $5.00 https://www.harborfreight.com/dial-gauge-angle-finder-34214.html
Velcro may be another mounting option.
Use your smart phone... just download a bubble level and your in business.
Are you putting it on a grader or a tractor? I prefer the slopemeter because it uses a ball, not a bubble. The ball does not get bumped around as bad as a bubble. I had one mounted on the windshield of a 730 champion, and it was bang on. If you pulled the string on a road with a 3% crown, it showed 3% on the meter. They put one on the 940, and it's not worth a @#$%. Must be how the cab sits. I don't like one mounted on the moldboard because unless you are running flat, and I mean ahead and back, you get a false reading unless you are running your mb straight and not at angle. I've seen them on the drawbar, but depending on the machine, they are hard to see.
I think it's the size and range that makes it useful, easy to read at a glance. It would be simple enough to make one the way you want if you can't find one, glass tube can be bought and bent, or some higher quality clear plastic, a steel ball, if you want it slower acting, add some antifreeze for dampening. Or make it a hanging pointer like the HF gauge, just with the relevant scale and clear numbers.
A few years ago my wife gave me a small inexpensive level about 1' long that she found at a local hardware store as a stocking stuffer at Christmas. The centre level bubble was pinned at one end and had a scale up to 4 deg. with a clamp to hold it at the setting. It had a couple of magnets on the base to hold the level onto steel pipe or steel studs. It was probably intended for laying drain pipe but I had an Allis D grader that had an angle iron frame for the front window and the magnets would hold it in place. I could set the slope up to 4 deg. for grading and I could flip it around 180 deg. if I needed to slope the other way.