Review on 📏 Wixey WR510 Digital Readout Fractions: Precision, Accuracy, and Efficiency Combined! by Carl Durant

I like it! It's much more useful and easier to zero than I expected. I thought it was only telling me the absolute elevation setting or with incremental changes. Little did I know that you could also take a piece of freshly planed lumber, lift the gauge and get an absolute measure of the thickness of the board. Which then answered my question on how to zero it. Just press the button with this board and it will reset to zero. The instructions are terrible and there are different parts for different types of aircraft. At first I was a bit apprehensive but in the end it was easy and I just had to drill 2 small holes and reuse the 2 that were already there. The following helped me. Attach the main rear bracket over the old gauge: 1. I removed the spring from the gauge, removed the gauge and the gauge from the rear mounting plate. This makes installation easier as you can clearly see the holes and stuff.2. Remove the red thickness mark from DW735 and save 2 screws.3. I clamped the ruler to the infeed table. This leaves your hands free for the next 2 steps! I took the bracket/back plate and lifted it right over the old ruler and lifted it until the leg touched the underside of my ruler. You know the bottom of the Wixey will line up with the top of your serving table.5. Once you are comfortable, remove the backing from the 2 adhesives, align with the gauge and center on the old ruler and press into place.6. Since the glue doesn't last forever, attach it with 2 screws. The bracket has screw holes so you only need to drill through the metal that the Dewalt ruler sits on. They include a drill bit for you, but I found it easier to punch it first with my own smaller drill bit and then use that to finish the hole. Then locate and screw in the 2 4mm hex head screws to hold the bracket in place. The hard part is done. Now install the lift bracket and the Wixey sensor in the old screw holes: 7. Decide on the correct bracket. A picture would be easier, but look at their DW735 drawing. It's an L-shaped bracket of sorts that fits over the screw holes that held the original red height marker. Two are included, but the smaller one is specific to Delta. This confused me at first as I didn't realize there were extra items in the pockets.8. Screw it in slightly. You have to use a double washer to tighten the thing and use the 2 original screws. The protruding metal part is on the left side (away from the pressure gauge).9. Attach a long thin bracket to the left side of the actual pressure gauge with a screw. Lift it where it belongs and you'll see which side the tab should go on.10. Reinstall the sensor and ruler removed in step 1, but leave the spring removed. I found this to make setup easier.11. Now attach the L-Bracket in step 8 with the nut and bolt to the skinny mounting bracket in step 9. Check for fit, tighten and re-add the spring: with 1/8 on the ruler (ignore the digital display for now, we'll take care of that later). 13. Make sure everything slides easily. I had to adjust the L-bracket a bit in step 8, bend the other a bit, etc. Again, I initially found it easier to do this without the spring in the mechanism as I could lift the sensor and it stayed out of the way. my way, but it was just me.14. Reattach the spring from the first step (pull out part of the ruler, place the spring on the rear bracket, feed the ruler back and through the sensor until it touches the leg, then attach the spring above). 15. Make sure you can pull the part of the ruler up, release it and it will come down again without binding. If so, loosen and play with bracket alignment. It's easier to do than describe, you'll see! Finally, calibrate the digital part for the first time (I didn't understand this at first): 16. Plane a piece of wood until it cuts through the entire width. then don't change the height17. Lift the Wixey gauge (part of the ruler), place the piece of wood on the support and drop the ruler. Now he measures the thickness of freshly cut wood.18. Press and hold the calibration button for 3 seconds and it will reset to zero. 19. Pull out the wood, the ruler will lower showing the actual height the planer is working at. 20. Done! After I did that, the last part about sizing a freshly cut piece of wood made sense! During installation I thought that I would have to somehow calibrate the actual altitude and then never touch it, but the truth is that if I ever accidentally reset it, calibration is very easy. Now it's clear I can go to a planer and use it to measure a piece of wood, so I don't need a separate gauge! I didn't know it did that when I bought it, but it makes sense given the need to then calibrate it so easily. Okay, wordy, and it would be a lot easier to show it through video. I wish I could make one. I'm writing this from memory. I just did this an hour ago. Took me less than 30 minutes. I hope these notes help someone as the Wixey docs are so awful!