My laser level to the rescue...

It was time to lay down some stripes on the panels. The sucky part is, it's nearly impossible to get a straight line by eye when you have different planes, angles, and curved surfaces. So I broke out my trusty rotary laser level, dimmed the lights and presto, perfectly straight line. I played with the tripod to get close then used the level adjustments on the laser to dial it in. My level also has a crank to raise and lower the whole thing making small height adjustments a piece of cake.

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Very ingenious! :fing02:

:fing02: Great idea

Cheater!

Not using the old tried and never true eye and tape method. Lay down a line of tape, back up and look, rip it up and start again, and thats not even mentioning both sides.

Smart, wish I had thought of it.

Come on, where the color? We've been waiting ages. :beer:

Larry
VFRrider

[image: View Post]vfrrider, on 20 September 2010 - 09:50 PM, said:

Come on, where the color? We've been waiting ages. :beer:


Oh, didn't I tell you. I decided, in the interest of time saving, to just go with a single 1/8th" masking stripe on the lower. :laughing6-hehe:

[image: View Post]Kel, on 20 September 2010 - 09:07 PM, said:

It was time to lay down some stripes on the panels. The sucky part is, it's nearly impossible to get a straight line by eye when you have different planes, angles, and curved surfaces. So I broke out my trusty rotary laser level, dimmed the lights and presto, perfectly straight line. I played with the tripod to get close then used the level adjustments on the laser to dial it in. My level also has a crank to raise and lower the whole thing making small height adjustments a piece of cake.


Cheater, you saw that on American Choppers, didn't you?? :goofy:

[image: View Post]wera803, on 21 September 2010 - 06:54 AM, said:

Cheater, you saw that on American Choppers, didn't you?? :goofy:


Umm... does anyone watch American Chopper?? :biggrin:

[image: View Post]Kel, on 21 September 2010 - 07:06 AM, said:

Umm... does anyone watch American Chopper?? :biggrin:


I haven't watched it in years, but did catch a couple of the new ones now that Sr. & Jr. are in competition with each other .

Jr. was using a laser on the last episode I saw when marking up a tank to cut. I thought it was a pretty good idea. :fing02:
Sr. probably would have never thought of it. :laughing6-hehe:

Good work, can't wait to see it painted