Check your rod bubbles.
Just sayin ~ don't make the same rookie mistake I did this week.
Yea, mine was a about a month and half ago.
Set the GPS base up on a 2 meter rod, and everything was checking off by about 2 tenths. It was okay vertically. Fine for the rough grading I was doing. Went back and when I picked up the base, I checked the level bubble, and one of the screws had vibrated out and was lost.
Go figure!
Thanks for the reminder
We do our bi-weekly on Thursdays, gun collimations and rods plumbed. One step further, we have to document it =)
Just doing that this morning. Regular equipment checks and maintenance make for better results.
> Yea, mine was a about a month and half ago.
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> Set the GPS base up on a 2 meter rod, and everything was checking off by about 2 tenths. It was okay vertically. Fine for the rough grading I was doing. Went back and when I picked up the base, I checked the level bubble, and one of the screws had vibrated out and was lost.
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> Go figure!
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> Thanks for the reminder
Hmmmm sounds familiar....
> Check your rod bubbles.
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> Just sayin ~ don't make the same rookie mistake I did this week.
Brad, I think you are onto something here...a weekly "Friendly Friday" reminder post. You guys would have to post a reminder of some sort cause I wouldn't know what to remind you of sans cleaning your tripods and instruments. 🙂
PS: I got a pic for you... 🙂
Nice vette... Sans rats...
Glad my contributions are going to good use. 😉
It is beer thirty here...
Yeah...too bad that isn't MY Vette. It's my brothers. He runs an upholstery shop and re-did that entire car!! I want to steal it but then I'd go to jail. LOL!!! He also did something to my mothers car and got out all of the smoke and other icky odors. It's nice driving a nice smelling car again. :car:
Being one of the lesser guys on the crews, I took it upon myself to do equipment checks on Monday mornings while the PC(s) were getting our weekly marching orders. I also made sure the trucks were fully stocked. Collumations we generally did once a month or when we were suspect of a gun.
One day we (all of us) didn't check on the truck supplies and we ran out of lathes. Of course it had to be a day of nothing but stake outs. Fortunately I had some cash and dashed off to the first hardware store I could find to get some. That didn't go over well at all so I never bothered to turn in a receipt and just ate the cost myself. That was my lunch money so I went hungry that day. I took it upon myself to be sure that NEVER happened again while I was around.
Friendly Friday Reminder Day!!
Ok guys it's Friendly Friday Reminder Day!! Anyone have any thing that they would care to share with our fellow users here as a "friendly reminder"?? 🙂
> Check your rod bubbles.
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> Just sayin ~ don't make the same rookie mistake I did this week.
Rods are checked at the start of each job and sometimes during the job. It amazes me that people do that just once a week or once a month.
Also use two bubbles on the rod. Pointed 90degs. to each other.
if you turn the screws down a couple of turns after you get them from the factory then they stay in adjustment.
If you leave them loose like they come from the factory then, yes, you need to check them every few hours.
Except Leica HDS target pole bubbles, that doesn't work so you have to check them every day. They bottom out without picking up friction like the SECO bubbles do.