On Oct 2, 7:06 am, "michael adams" wrote:
Nowadays I work mainly in metric. I'm right handed. Using a steel tape
measure on a board or similar I'll hook the tape over the left hand edge
and pull it across to the right.

I'm right handed. When I want to use a circular saw to chop lots of
short pieces off a long bit of timber I hang the timber off to the
right of a bench and I hook the tape over the right hand end. The tape
markings are therefore upside down. I just read it upside down, but
it's easy to confuse a 6 with a 9. I don't suppose I can buy a tape
that is marked the other way up?

It doesn't matter much now that I have a dropsaw since the short bits
can be on the left.