Tape Measure With Shorter Inches? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / beginners

author: robobeamer
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 04:53:49 am
content: Has anyone ever seen a tape measure with shorter inches? I remember Dave talking about is some time ago.

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 04:56:19 am
content: They are called centimeters

author: Addicted2AnalogTek
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 04:59:41 am
content: I don't know about shorter inches, but there is an "engineer's rule" - each foot is split up into 10 segments instead of 12.You've got me curious now, though.

author: jobog
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 05:30:57 am
content: Pattern makers have rulers that compensate for the shrinkage of various metals. A rule for steel castings would indicate 1" but would be longer than 1" to adjust the pattern for shrink.

author: RogerRowland
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 05:44:23 am
content: Maybe something like this?http://fishfib.com/

author: mtdoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 07:40:23 am
content: You might look in the advertisements found in the back of "mens magazines"....

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 09:44:17 am
content: I have seen a tape measure printed on elastic so that you could stretch it to fit.

author: mzzj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 09:54:55 am
content: U.S. surveyor’s inch would be slightly longer by 2ppmAll REAL americans should use surveyor’s inch instead of sosialistic-communist based modern inch

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 10:03:29 am
content: hmm, so my board would have to be 500 inches long before i was effected by 1 thou difference, somehow i fail to see apart from things like 100's of miles in distance why the 2 standards?I mean you already have Australians using thou, and now you want us using US surveyor's thou, stuff it, i'm going back to decimeters

author: DenzilPenberthy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 10:18:43 am
content: I remember reading a while ago about a batch of Chinese knock-off tape measures where either the feet were sub divided into 10 'inches' or the 'feet' were only 10 real inches long, I can't remember which way round it was.

author: mzzj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 10:33:09 am
content: Quote from: Rerouter on February 25, 2016, 10:03:29 amThou shall not pass

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 11:54:31 am
content: Do you want to prove something to your GF?(sorry. could not resist.)

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 02:30:20 pm
content: Quote from: mzzj on February 25, 2016, 09:54:55 amYes, when the US finally went really metric in 1959 (without telling anyone), they changed the definition of the inch to exactly 2.54 cm, instead of the old definition of the meter as 39.37 inches, resulting in the "US Survey Foot" that followed the old definition. Otherwise, we would have had to change every single land-tenure document (deed) in the entire country, which didn't seem worth the trouble.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 25, 2016, 02:57:22 pm
content: Try thishttp://www.engineersupply.com/specialty-measuring-tapes.aspx