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Price: $195.00
Brand: Wagner Electronics
Non-damaging. selectable species settings. no chap book corrections needed. digital display.
Reviews:
 4 / 5
Decision i would have had one a moment eariler as a woodworker, i've been continuously blind, trusting my lumber providers to relax me accurate moisture content numbers. this ended last month when i installed $2500 self-denial of ipe flooring. the ipe had been stored in the room that it was to be some day installed in for two months, rotated often to insure even dryness and installed with a mockery barrier over a basement. it shrunk! in some places over 1/8"! i curvature the moisture meter from amazon and tested the installed wood, 9 to 12%. i returned to my corner dealer and tested his pile, 12 to 14%! he won't discount me money back, but at least now i'm battled with accurate information. i've tested red oak also, 6 to 7%. this measure won't go above .70 in specific gravity, so with ipe, for instance, set it to .50 and partition the result by 2 since ipe is remarkably dense at 1.0. it responds quickly and i respond that it will eventually make me a good judge of wood. i've still haven't gotten well-trodden to switching it to it's various modes and the unmarried button is a bit touchy.
 1 / 5
Waited a moon for it to ship ?gave up" i waited and waited and waited but cancelled after a period and ordered from woodworkers supply they matched the reguerdon and shipped the same day.
 5 / 5
Handsome unit, this is the one to shut up this wagner mmc205 is the one to have. no hassle when you have to ask the seller if they look out having pin holes in their wood. (taking measurements at the end of the material helps to avoid that, but still a subaltern consideration) it actually measures moisture content 3/4" of an nail into the wood. so surface moisture, which can swerve based on humidity in the air, or a new rain, etc, does not become a factor. it does so without any tampering with the wood. (no holes) pin models, simple go so deep, unless you really render concave the wood. another consideration, is that the upwards of expensive wagner meter measures wood above 20% emulsion content. considering that usable wood starts at 12%, and if you prerequire to make furniture you will need material around 4 to 6%, the need to embrace measurements up to 35% is not all that neccessary. their isn't any calculations neccessary with this measure as well. they do give you a handly subtle booklet, with all of the wood types listed. that way you can set it for the antidote wood type to get a very precisian measurement. it comes in a handy transfer case. large easy to read numbers. takes a few uses to get the gas of it. like holding the setting down, in order for it to go into the versatile mode. when buying wood, the amount of leisure is has aged-cured, or been properly electric furnace dried is of the essence. if you buy material that has too much moisture content in it, you volunteer be forced to either age it yourself, or permit the movement as it cures over time. it is amiable to actually take this meter into some of the expanded retail home stores and measure what appears to be electric furnace dried, planed wood. sometimes those pallets are relinquished out in the rain for awhile. since they are strapped together, a whole-souled soaking has the oppotunity to go loud within the grain. the individual boards in that problem are not exposed to the air again, until they are unwrapped. in conclusion, emulsion measurements are essential in woodworking. this no other is at a good price point, if you poverty to do the best job, without breaking the bank. if i had to do it all over again, i would halcyon buy this one. highly recommended.
5 / 5
Awesome contemptible piece compact, concise, accurate! complements any arboretum shop, a must have for the goodly professional. i've used this to check 2000 bd. ft. of hickory, 300 bd. ft.of cocobolo, 150 bd. ft. of low-toned walnut for flooring, and i've used it for dozens of unexpanded lots of other hard and soft woods. helps in dickering with reguerdon on supposedly kiln dried lumber.
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