Find Your Angle With Tajima Slant Tools
By Benjamen Johnson
When you need to know the rise and run now, don’t calculate it — directly measure it quickly with Tajima’s slant tool. Their slant tool allows you to quickly measure, verify, or copy surface angle and pitch.
You adjust the easy-to-read angle scale with a large thumb screw on the handle. When the bubble vial reads level, you’re at the set angle. The angle scale ranges from 0 to 130° in 2° increments. The rise scale ranges from 0 to 0.8 in 0.05 increments, and above 0.8 it reads in fixed increments up to 2.0.
Tajima makes two models: the Slant 100 and the Slant AL200. They manufacture both tools from impact-resistant, heavy-gauge ABS plastic, but the AL200 also features an aluminum frame with a magnetic base.
Tajima includes conversion charts and reference graphics in the package. The Slant 100 and the Slant AL200 retail for $30 and $40 respectively, but if you look around you can find them for $20 and $30.
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March 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Tajima makes nice stuff - but slope pins and a Checkpoint Mag-Base/Level are easier (no calculations - and the pitch is perfect.
http://www.pdpinc.net/products/slope_pins.html
March 11th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
It’s funny Fred, I was actually going to write about the Checkpoint slope pins because Checkpoint looks like they make real quality tools, but the I was feeling a little lazy and didn’t want to talk about the level and the base which are required to even use the slope pins. That when I found the Tajima stuff.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
There are several inclinometers out there. The Wixey digital readout for setting table saw blades - is essentially one too - but suffers from having a very short base - so a carpenter might find it a poor choice for setting the slope of something that had surface irregularities.
http://www.wixey.com/anglegauge/index.html
CheckPoint (Precision Designed Products Inc.) are really first rate products and we use their levels for setting stub-outs - aligning stud holes etc.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
This style has also been around for a while:
http://www.summitsource.com/product_info.php?ref=1&products_id=5328
March 11th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Tajima makes nice stuff but their tape measures are no longer made in Japan….they are made in China……I rep’d Tajima for awhile here in Texas and that was a sore point when Tajima switched over to China