"Geo" wrote in message
...
Tesco had some "everything for a pound" shelves so bought a spare 5 metre
tape
rule for the shed. Noticed it only had metric markings but reckoned I
could
cope.
At home - unwrapped and found the body width marked 2 3/4" ... no metric
Dang these chineese...



In the oil patch, we have measuring tapes with 'big' inches versus 'small'
inches:

We often use decimal feet rather than feet and inches.
So a length of drill pipe is often described as 31.5 feet, rather than
31'6".

So for pipe measurements, we have tapes in decimal feet ( feet and tenths of
a foot. )
These are 'big' inches.

--
Ron