Where do you guys get your thickness gauges?
I do mostly glisten method which ends up being 2/2, rounded edge with the AWT coater with Aquasol HV at about 80 degrees one handed from the floor.
Pretty much identical here except I coat two handed. Like br suggested, I watched videos way back of the coating machines doing this and imitated them. I do flip the screen and would need sophisticated tools that I don't have to accurately say if this is needed in manual coating or not. So, I err on the side of flipping.
Another thing I do is have coating options on the mesh chart. Our chart has unique exposure values for a 150s coated 2/2 and for the same coated 2/1. I also use the round edge exclusively up to 180 s and then the thin edge up from there.
I've considered the one hand method since it makes good sense but my way works so I haven't tried it out yet.
I think it's all about operator skill in any case. Alan's man was doing perfect screens with that one hand method whereas I had a former employee try and convince me to go that way and the screens he built were unusable compared to mine.