Handheld Laser Advice

I have never used a handheld laser, to measure anything I put on a survey. Always a tape measure.
I would think something white and plastic would work, with some tape.

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Have the 60meter hand held on Amazon called TACKLife HD60 (60 meter) that shoots straight line distance only (does not deduce slant dist to horizontal dist)

https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=tacklife%20hd60&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20&apos ;"> https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=tacklife hd60&index=blended&link_code=qs&sourceid=Mozilla-search&tag=mozilla-20

Has a triangle function and a red light that can be seen.
Pocket size 1" x 4.3" x 2" and requires two triple A batteries.

They do have several other models, now with horizontal output on inclined shots

Irwin frame clamp and a square of cardboard or Masking tape and a square of cardboard on some building corners

I don't have one of those gadgets, but find that with a TS I can get decent range with the red or white reflective sheets sold at the home improvement big-box stores.

Hillman brand works better for me than others, and comes with 3 or 4 sheets about 1 inch x 6 inches in a package. Put perhaps a 1 inch square of it on the wall with masking tape. Remove the same day so the tape doesn't get too hard to remove.

These are my newest favorite tool
Can shoot with TS in target mode thru moderate brush (if you see target, it will return a good distance)
Putting them on back of gammon reels, short pieces of PVC, chaining pins and side of pocket tapes

http://www.ebay.com/itm/35pcs-High-Quality-REFLECTOR-SHEET-50-x-50-mm-Reflective-Tape-Target-/272369049100?hash=item3f6a75de0c:g:b20AAOSwU-pXqj6z

Apparently, y'all didn't grasp my question.

Just A. Surveyor, post: 436217, member: 12855 wrote: Apparently, y'all didn't grasp my question.

Then you need to restate the question so it can't be misinterpreted.

I thought I was clear but apparently not.

You have a building with no inside corners to reflect off of, think a square building or a bay window. What do you use to stick on the building to provide a reflective surface to shoot and what in the world do you use to for the adhesive?

Has to be small and portable and has to be repeatedly sticky for multiple applications.

I have never done this, but I would get a 4 foot lath, paint it white or slap a reflector sticker on the lath, I would drive the lath on the edge of the bay window then measure from the other edge.

I have not found anything that can be used repeatedly to attach to the corner of a building to obtain that lazer shot to the outside corner.
A roll of masking tape and a cardboard target has helped most of the time.
I have attached the cardboard to the end of a piece of PVC and leaned against building corner.
To extend the disto out from a building I've used a lath held against a side of the building
The frame clamp works good on most brick and other corners with a capped edge.

Just A. Surveyor, post: 436217, member: 12855 wrote: Apparently, y'all didn't grasp my question.

I know exactly what you're talking about, Steve...

I know a guy that works in a machine shop, he made some prototype "L" brackets for me. They are long enough to stick out from behind a downspout:

I stick it to the surface with fun tack. You need a clean surface, if you want it to stay very long and this stuff lasts for ever:

I have my disto mounted to a camera tripod; it helps keep me steady and I don't have to keep pulling it out of my pocket:

My son in law works at a company that makes parking lot gates; he gives me all the orange and silver reflective tape I want. My buddy at the machine shop sharpened a 1" pipe for me; I use a rubber mallet and a piece of plastic to cut out 1" reflective discs.

Is this what you were talking about?

Dougie

If you have vest with reflective strips on it that will work!

RADAR, post: 436232, member: 413 wrote: I know exactly what you're talking about, Steve...

I know a guy that works in a machine shop, he made some prototype "L" brackets for me. They are long enough to stick out from behind a downspout:

I stick it to the surface with fun tack. You need a clean surface, if you want it to stay very long and this stuff lasts for ever:

I have my disto mounted to a camera tripod; it helps keep me steady and I don't have to keep pulling it out of my pocket:

My son in law works at a company that makes parking lot gates; he gives me all the orange and silver reflective tape I want. My buddy at the machine shop sharpened a 1" pipe for me; I use a rubber mallet and a piece of plastic to cut out 1" reflective discs.

Is this what you were talking about?

Dougie

Brother, that's what I'm looking for, now I have a few ideas to work with. I've never heard of that "putty" so now I am going to have to look for it.

Thank you.

Whatever material they use on those metal strips near the base of wood power poles, really returns a huge amount of energy. It doesn't seem to matter which color, white or amber. Oddly, I have shot(en) poles where only some of the strips were reflective this way. Others appear to be the same type of material and color but reflect no more than a similarly colored piece of paper.

Maybe its the specifications of the Disto laser that I use that determines what is reflected. I have tried several cheap solutions but can't find anything better than low light. I can see that dot for hundreds of feet at night or at twilight.

I have the Leica adapter that provides tangent screws of the Disto.

JA, PLS SoCal

Just A. Surveyor, post: 436320, member: 12855 wrote: now I have a few ideas to work with.

The camera tripod will be under 30 bucks, the fun tak is a couple bucks at Walmart; the whole set-up is pretty cheap. I can go around an upper middle class home in about 15 minutes. I also use a 30' pocket tape field book. The disto set-up works great on those 50 foot distances. I also have a lath, if there is a lot of crap in the way.

Jerry Attrick, post: 436321, member: 1585 wrote: Whatever material they use on those metal strips near the base of wood power poles, really returns a huge amount of energy. It doesn't seem to matter which color, white or amber. Oddly, I have shot(en) poles where only some of the strips were reflective this way. Others appear to be the same type of material and color but reflect no more than a similarly colored piece of paper.

Maybe its the specifications of the Disto laser that I use that determines what is reflected. I have tried several cheap solutions but can't find anything better than low light. I can see that dot for hundreds of feet at night or at twilight.

I have the Leica adapter that provides tangent screws of the Disto.

JA, PLS SoCal

I have seen advertisements of the Leica adapter but have not seen anything on how the Disto attaches. I have the Disto 2.

Just A. Surveyor, post: 436320, member: 12855 wrote: Brother, that's what I'm looking for, now I have a few ideas to work with. I've never heard of that "putty" so now I am going to have to look for it.

Thank you.

Perhaps this will interest you...

https://www.amazon.com/Corner-Target-Plate-Laser-Meters/dp/B005QQSTVU/ref=pd_sim_469_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FR22R9MWV71YSDTYRMR4

Wow, not many solos's out there. Less than 25 feet, i'll pull a tape, more I us a Post-it Note.

Now by golly I like the Post-it-Note suggestion.