Milescraft8402 AngleFinder

Given as a present for christmas. Recipient was very excited.

We needed something to help cut baseboards in our 100 year old house. None of the angles were the same or even a regular size. This tool really did the job! Took a little bit to figure out but I watched a video on it and it was easy to use after that.

Works pretty good.

Nice

Buy this unless you like to argue with your wife during home remodeling. Should have got this from day one.

So good I bought another

Overall seems nice but the lock won't function.

I like this tool for what it does, especially for the price. This is my fourth Milescraft tool, and I generally find them to be 80% as good and only 20% of the cost of more expensive tools.I guess I didn’t read the description carefully enough, because the 8402 works a little differently than what I was expecting. In essence, it transfers angles, it doesn’t measure angles.Compared to my digital angle finder, the 8402 has much larger flat edges lengthwise. My digital angle finder can measure down to 0.1 degree, but the long edges are only about 1/16 inch thick, making it harder to stand perpendicular to the wall surface.The Milescraft 8402 has much wider edges, making it easier to keep “level” as you stand it vertically against the wall. It also bisects the angle with the flat yellow piece, and you can use that flat edge to guide a miter saw’s blade angle to cut an angle exactly half. And that’s what I am going to use it for.If I were making miter saw cuts requiring both bevel and miter angles on the same cut (cutting crown molding “flat”), this tool would not work because the miter saw angles are derived from both the wall angle and the molding “spring” angle, and that requires an actual number measurement on the wall angle. Although, I could still do it by “finding” the angle with the 8402 and then using my digital tool to measure the angle on the outside of the 8402.