How Good is Your Mobile Phone as an Angle Gauge?

[Nigel Taylor]

I set up a surface table and a sine bar to compare a Samsung phone to a Wixey angle gauge:

The phone came out slightly better. Samsung A71 +/-0.12° and Wixey angle gauge +/-0.22°

You can trust both for most measurements.

 

[novocaine]

can I play MP3s on the Wixey though?



sorry, not funny I know.

it's a theoretical error given the averaging and i'd have said you'd be better to give to 1dp rather than 2 because of that, so 0.1 and 0.2 deviation.

you wouldn't trust either in a tight tolerance application (aviation and the like) but for the homeshop, perfectly acceptable.

Thanks for having a play (my wixey is sat on my desk right now from testing a guitar headstock break angle)

 

[TheUnicorn]

misread the thread title, thought you found an app to turn into into an angle GRINDER. slightly disappointed now

 

[Hsmith192]

misread the thread title, thought you found an app to turn into into an angle GRINDER. slightly disappointed now

There is a app called Grindr- not sure that would help with levelling off stuff. Sorry, I had to go there.

 

[Nigel Taylor]

oh dear, some very off topic comments, trying to bring it back to reality:

The useful thing here is that if you are desperate for a level or angle gauge you can easily strap your phone to a length (ideally square) tube, calibrate it to zero on the ground and then create a level to the ground or an angle to the ground. The result will be quite accurate.