Tater Gum Fries wrote:
"J Burns" wrote in message
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Twenty years ago I bought a Craftsman tape marked in mm on both edges. It
was so much easier and more reliable than fractions for reading and
remembering measurements that I bought a spare.

Eventually, the first one broke. I want to buy a third in case anything
happens to my second one. The only ones I've seen have mm on one edge
only, and that's not as good. Mine is especially good because the marks
for mm 1,4,6, and 9 are shorter than the others, which means I can read
it without counting lines.

Doesn't anyone in America sell metric carpenter's tapes?

This is Tater. Try here
http://www.perfectmeasuringtape.com/...res/series-85m



Thank you! They even have a 3-meter model. I could keep my 7.5 on the
shelf and use the little one most of the time: easier to carry, cheaper
to break.

They would be perfect if the pattern didn't have 4 adjacent marks of the
same length. On my old ones, there are no more than two adjacent marks
of the same length (2 and 3, 7 and 8). That means my eyes don't have
to count little marks. I wonder why it's not common.