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Wagner MMC220 Extended Range Moisture Meter | 
| Brand: Wagner Electronics
Category: Home Improvement
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 17389
Media: Tools & Hardware
Fragile: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.1 x 5 x 2.4
Model: MMC220
UPC: 637743022008
EAN: 0637743022008
ASIN: B000063XI9
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Non-damaging | | • | Selectable species settings | | • | No manual corrections needed | | • | Digital display | | • | Hold feature |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Moisture Meter Works Great!! March 21, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My wife and I are building our dream home - we are the total workforce. Construction is complete and we are working on interior trim, cabinets, built-ins, etc. Before we started, we had 5 large red oak trees on our property cut and processed thru a portable sawmill to 5/4 rough sawn lumber. The lumber has been drying in a shed for 8 years. We have a nice woodworking shop and needed a means to test the moisture content of our wood.
In addition, we purchased 800bf of kiln dryed tongue and grove 5" oak planking to use for a catherdral ceiling. This wood came from a small flooring manufacture in the Ozarks near our homesite. Out of the kiln, the wood measured 7% but by the time it was processed thru the milling and is ready to ship, it was at 9-11%.
We took our Wagner 220 with us to the mill to establish a base line on the wood purchase. The mill personnel were very impressed with the speed and accuracy of the meter. They had us check a lot of different woods and at different points in the milling process and were really surprised at how easy it worked and even more at how well it worked.
We have since used it to check the wood in our drying barn and were pleased that it worked very well and picked up the difference from wood on the edge of a stack to wood back in the middle of the stack.
We are very pleased and look forward to using the meter as we build our cabinets, furniture, and house trim.
Garay and Pat Holland
Bee Branch Arkansas
For What It Does It's Very Good February 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What the Wagner MMC220 does is provide the user with very fast moisture content readings without putting holes in the wood. Of course, you have to know the species of wood your testing and it better be one of the species listed in the accompanying booklet or it can get a little time consuming calculating what setting to enter into the tester. So, if you are a woodworker who works with many different species of wood, especially exotics, you may get a little perturbed if your species is not listed in the booklet as you then have to go online to look up the speficic density of that species and use a provided equation to calculate the proper setting to enter into the tool. I wouldn't recommend using this tool if you're out at your favorite provider and looking at a variety of species of wood unless you go in knowing you're going to be doing a lot of setting changes.
That said, I have found it to be an excellent tool even with its' limitations. I had some old growth big leaf maple felled on my property before having my house built. I couldn't stand to see all that wood go into somebody's fireplace so I had several thousand board feet milled on site and stored it in a shed at a friends house until my place was ready for it. To make a long story short, this tool has kept me from using the wood too soon as I would have torn into it some time ago. If you have ever created a piece of furniture that ripped itself apart because the wood was too wet when you glued it up you know it is something you don't want to do again.
I have planed some of the boards and they are absolutely beautiful. In that I am overly anxious to make a dining room table with some of it, I know if I act too soon I'll have a table top that tears itself apart in no time flat. For people like me, this tool acts like a ball and chain that shackles me until I can be released to make proper sawdust.
In that the accompanying booklet has many common species listed, it only takes a few seconds to enter the proper code into the tool and you're off and running. As for me, I'm keeping mine and will continue to use it. So unless you're a house framer nailing up green Douglas Fir, I suggest you get one and use it.
Wagner MMC220 Moisture Meter December 7, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this from Amazon a couple of months ago as I was getting ready to purchase and install about 2,000 sq ft of custom wood flooring. Although Amazon had the best price and I've had great experience buying from them, it was still a little pricy I think for what you get, but these things are all expensive. But, I have a wood shop and figured I could use it in the years to come as well.
It works great. Simple to set up for the right species, and accurate compared to the meter used by the flooring supplier. The only trick is to make sure you leave an air gap under any boards 3/4" thick or less, or the reading will be somewhat affected.
Here in CO things tend to dry out, and we've had bad experiences with some furniture items. From now on I'll be taking this thing with me to check moisture levels so we'll be able to identify those 10%+ moisture levels in items shipped in from the East coast that end up shrinking and maybe cracking after a year in our lower humidity. It'll also be great for picking out lumber for projects.
Great item and highly recommended if you think it's worth the price!
 Great Product! November 30, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
An excellent product which performs consistently as you would expect from a fine instrument. Real engineers and support people right here in the USA. Wonderful experience !!!!!!!!!!
Great unit! November 7, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
The features are simple (which is actually a good thing in this case) and there is very little to know to get it working correctly. My 6 year old daughter can use it properly with no issues! In terms of accuracy, the unit is factory calibrated. While I couldn't directly measure the accuracy, i was pretty sure it would be quite accurate given the type of tests I had done and knowing how well each piece of lumber I tried it on had been dried previously. I am confident in the units repeatable accuracy. It seems much more accurate than any pin moisture meter I have owned before.
Of course, this accuracy does come at a price. At around US$[...] retail, the MMC220 moisture meter is an investment that requires a little budget consideration. But when it comes to measuring wood moisture, and avoiding costly problems associated with using wood that wasn't as dry as it should have been before use, I feel a little extra dollar investment in a good moisture meter is a worthy avenue to take for future piece of mind, and more solid and stable woodworking projects!
Wagner do have several other (less expensive models) in their range with similar features if you are looking for a cheaper alternative, but be sure to check features carefully to ensure the unit you buy will match your requirements.
Overall, however, I was very happy with the performance of the MMC220. If you have the money, it's a definite buy item.
(with regards to specific gravity charts mentioned by another reviewer, if you take a look at the included documentation and CD, you can easily find SG measurements for almost any wood, exotic or native on the CD and via the couple of websites mentioned on the CD). I had little trouble finding the measurements of specific gravity for most woods I use).
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