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I've used this on the last job hard. It was okay. It did the job scribing in some flooring. But the main problem I had with it was these tightening bolts. Despite how much you put on them, they would come loose whilst you were doing your scribe and it meant that the scribe was unreliable and it took a bit of effort to stop that happening. So that's one thing they could work on, a different sort of way of tightening the points that move on the actual scribe.
It's Gareth from Udell Electrical Services. ToolTalk Expert Trades have sent me the TRACER ProScribe Kit just to try out and see what I think of it. So I'm going to get the kit out, use it on a job, and then review it and see what I think. As you can see, the blades done quite a nice cut, I can't really say an awful lot about my cutting skills I just noticed here but we'll try it. We'll try it out, we'll try it anyway. Let's see how well it fits. I said, I wouldn't mind a bit more exact, a bit more of my scribing ability a bit more so than the actual tool itself. If I actually cut it the proper length that would really help, but as you can see even my poor cutting ability and poor scribing ability, the shape is perfect. So the tool itself, I must admit, it's quite an impressive wee thing. Hello, everyone. My name's James from Eastside Electrical Limited in North Essex. I'd like to post this review regarding the TRACER scribing tool that was kindly sent to me from the guys at Expert Trades and Tool Talk. I've got to say I'm really impressed with this scribing tool. I used it for cutting in some skirting board along a new staircase. I've got to say, it's nice, easy to use. Anything with the TRACER name on it, you generally know it's going to be quality. The pencils are superb and this little tool is no different. You can use it for contour scribing, parallel scribing, and also as a compass. I haven't tried the compass mode yet, but for parallel scribing, this was superb. And as I'm not a chippy, I found this to be really good, and to be honest, improve the quality of the work that I produced, even if it was in my own house.So yeah, overall, very good build, looks nice. The case is sturdy. So I haven't got to worry about it breaking. And I do like the case. I don't know, if I show you that. It's a very sturdy case. So literally when I was done, I just put it with me tools, threw it in the van. Didn't have to worry about anything getting broken. So great for that. Now, this would be particularly handy for odd size products. At the minute, we are fitting some lights that are 200 mil wide, and, also, we have some spotlights, or emergency down lights, which are 45mm. This comes in handy for marking up exact measurements. We also have some speakers that are 210mm. This will be very handy for the marking of that, if you're going to cut out by hand. It does do its job. Yes, it can scribe. It can be adjusted. It can do everything that it says it can do, but it's also very clunky. Compared to other ones like a Trend model, you haven't got to undo every little bolt and slide it around to do everything. You can actually use it one-handed a Trend, you just roll it out and it will give you the dimension you need. This tool is great if you need to scribe flooring or some other profile were your making at 90 degrees but if your marking parallel for instance scribing a panel to a wonky wall but the gap is 5mm this tool is bad it will move from the angle you need to set it at to get a 5mm scribe and so is no good for what I would mostly use it for. And to be honest, this one does feel better than a lot of the others. It is a better build, I think, but maybe they've made it slightly overcomplicated for what I need it for. I do a lot of bathrooms and do bits of kitchens. So I'm scribing in flooring, the odd end panel, bit of skirting. I'm a plumber, so I'm not really going to be doing too much woodwork, but it did come in handy when we was doing a bath, because we had to cut around for the feet for the wood and things like that. So it did really help out with that. When we had to do a bit of boxing in around some pipe work, helped with that.
The Deep Hole Pencil. I've already got one of these which I've been using awhile. Very, very handy for marking out in bathrooms, for positioning of sinks, basins, marking into deep holes say for putting boilers up. Absolutely handy piece of kit. The Proscribe comes with an handy carrying case, that holds the Proscribe long pencil with holster. The pencil holster has a built in pencil sharpener built in to the belt clip. It comes with a supply of replacement leads and yellow markers, all stored in a strong holder. There is also in the kit the Tracer Pro scribe tool. This is a multi use tool / marking tool, that allows you to use the proscribe as a compass, or to use in contour mode to scribe profiles, or parallel scribing. All adjustments are made by adjusting the nurled nuts at the front and rear of the proscribe. There is a set of instructions that can be kept inside the case. So that's it. It's traced the outline of the wall. I'm not sure if you can just about see that on the camera. There is this bit here, which is where the light switch is. So I wasn't able to hold the TRACER flat to the wall, but I'll just marry those two lines up and then use that to cut. Just looking at the tool briefly, it's basically like a compass. So you have to set the actual thing up. And that's the gap that I want to be measured. There's a couple of different screws. So you can angle this differently, depending on which angle, if you've got a bigger sort of scribe to do, or if you're sort of doing a profile bit. All the instructions comes in the kit like I showed earlier, but I've already set that up. So I'm going to give it a go.Works perfectly and I will be using it quite often, I think. Especially for cutting around pipes and things like that and plasterboard. You know, plasterboard patches and it's got to be up to a frame or something like that again, around pipes. And perfect for marking out. Actually, it's quite well made and sturdy. And their pencils, like I said, are good. They're made to last. I've been using them for quite a while now. No complaints there. So quite easy to use, actually. The pencil slots into there. Nice little grip. Tighten up, using these to position it. Nip it on, and you use it as a compass as such. Handy for marking the positioning of pipes through kitchen units. Very handy there. You can also adjust that as a parallel marker. On a bit of wood like that, and move a little bit farther forward like that. And as you can see, marks a parallel line on there. So a quite handy bit of kit, I would imagine. Right, let's try this here again. So I go from the bottom, go up. I'm sorry if I'm out of focus here. This is my fault, not the pen's. As you can see, if I knew what I was doing it would be a lot neater. That should give me a nice neat fit, and we're going to cut it out and give it a go. Basically, what it does, in a nutshell, is it marks out the contour or the shape of something that you want to cut. So if you're doing it against a wall, plasterboard, or boards, you can use it in parallel mode so it just marks the point you set it so the pencil is the same as the point and you mark along it, and it gives you the exact profile so you can saw and cut to the exact shape. So you take this out, loosen the two ends. It does adjust up and down and then slides up. It's not the deepest. I could probably use one that's slightly longer, and one that maybe extends more and more, but that's not available. It does have a nice smooth rail at the bottom. This does help and it just flies across the surfaces. That's quite nice.
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