Moisture Meters

[OZDOG]

Hey Guys,
I'm in the market for a moisture meter, was just wondering what you guys use and/or recommend.
Thanks.

 

[TedChristiansen]

I have a Wagner pinless and am happy with it. The only thing I don't like is having to adjust the values from the book all the time. The versions that have adjustment for species you use would be better in my opinion.

http://www.amazon.com/Wagner-L609-S...19-4866826?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1190914472&sr=1-2

Ted

 

[Marmaduck]

I'm tried one of the less expen$$ive versions, the Timbercheck meter from Lee Valley:

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=32548&cat=1,43513

It seems to work perfectly for me. It's hard to get the pins into my pecan, so I drove some finish nails to the center of some boards and touch the pins to the nails.

Michael...let's see if the pic worked...

 

[woodshop]

I have a Wagner pinless and am happy with it. The only thing I don't like is having to adjust the values from the book all the time. The versions that have adjustment for species you use would be better in my opinion.
Ted

I too have a Wagner pinless... love it... one of those things I wonder how I did without when I didn't have one. No driving pins into wood, just lay it on the board and read the moisture. A bit pricey, but worth every penny for me because it works so well. Yeah was a pain at first to have to look in book to see what species read high or low... but in my case I mostly am only checking oak, cherry, walnut, pine... 6-7 basic species. After a while you get to know what reads high etc (has to do with different density of the different species), so no need to go to the chart. Besides, I don't often have to know EXACTLY what moisture content my wood is, just that it is drying or not, or that it is roughly 12-15% which is about as dry as you'll get here on east coast drying outside.

 

[Adkpk]

Here's a link to the one I have.
http://store.baileys-online.com/cgi-bin/baileys/5212?mv_session_id=sGpjUhEt&product_sku=17718
It's handy in that is small. Seems to work as well as I need it to.

 

[hfrench]

I'm tried one of the less expen$$ive versions, the Timbercheck meter from Lee Valley:

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&p=32548&cat=1,43513

It seems to work perfectly for me. It's hard to get the pins into my pecan, so I drove some finish nails to the center of some boards and touch the pins to the nails.

Michael...let's see if the pic worked...

I have the Timbercheck also, works well.

Howie

 

[TNMIKE]

Harbor Freight

I have the Harbor Freight model. Its works..but I cannot vouch for its accuracy other than "it seems to be right"

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

+1 on the Wagner pinless.

 

[OZDOG]

thanks guys for your replies. it was a hard one the wagner are nice but but expensive down here for a good model, so i ended up with a delmhorst, came with data for australian timbers i guess time will till how good it is. thanks again!!