I'm that man Eric; Hi! Lastminute! Mine has worked fine, but merrily eats batteries! As to precision (Hi Mike!), mine resembles that of digital 'very nears' and gets me 99% accurate, sometimes better, and then test cuts finesse the settings into "spot on". I will confess to using it initially for stop setting on the table saw trunnions and the like, and since then on non-crucial, but 'looks close enough' angled cuts on table edges, moulding profiles, even holes in components. Anything that shouted out "precision joints - to Custard's standard" I test out quickly on cut-off scrap after setting up, but I must say, the digibox gets you very, very, close. My saving grace is: slow, careful, setting up, rather than use the 'wee chrome box' as a definitive, does-all, standard. I also tend to make a quick 'reference guide' from scrap MDF in case I nudge someting out of kilter. This can be quickly set in to check nothing's moved or to reset a blade after second or third operations, then binned - as raw, cut, MDF sitting around swells and changes dimensionally. This approach is slower than a production workshop, but ensures full and correct use of small, expensive resources (wood) and as a retiree, not yet of pensionable age, that suits me.
So, the wee beastie is not NASA accurate, but if you use it with common sense, backup checking where an EXACT angle is a requisite, trusting it where 'looks close enough' will do, it works fine!
Sam, anti-Luddite.
