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...

Geo wrote:
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...


All metric measuring kit's great - I buy something almost every time I
go to France. Mixed units aren't though

Chris

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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.

Wow! Do all Tescos have these?

I normally have to go to France to pick up metric only tapes and my supply
is running low.

Christian.

Christian McArdle wrote:

Wow! Do all Tescos have these?

I normally have to go to France to pick up metric only tapes and my supply
is running low.

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and imperial
depending which whole number or division comes closest to the mark?

:¬)

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Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬) wrote:

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and imperial?

I have one of those tapes. Pink arrrgh... from LIDL. I find it
invaluable but wish that there were such a thing as imperial. I can
remember the introduction of dual gauge wooden rulers but can't for the
real McCoy with metal tapes.

I wish I had had the foresight I compensate for with hindsight. I have
to keep trying to think what the imperial for cums is.

If there is a slitty eyed spammer on here that can get them made,
please post to this thread you spamming Knut. Even juggling would be
better than the standard 2@'s eye view the dual alternatve provides.

The message k
from ;¬)" contains these
words:

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and imperial
depending which whole number or division comes closest to the mark?

Nah - I do it all the time. 6'4"2mm for example.

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"Guy King" wrote in message
...
The message k
from ;¬)" contains these
words:

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and imperial
depending which whole number or division comes closest to the mark?

Nah - I do it all the time. 6'4"2mm for example.

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Metric or imperial on their own are useless - you need a dual marked tape
measure to cope with DIY. Anyone saying otherwise is expressing a purely
political opinion.

Andy.

Metric or imperial on their own are useless - you need a dual marked tape
measure to cope with DIY. Anyone saying otherwise is expressing a purely
political opinion.

The trouble with dual marked tapes is that if you measure left to right
it is metric: right to left it is imperial. I am going to stock up
with imperial only tapes next time I am in the USA.

"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

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:56:45 GMT, Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;ª) wrote:

Wow! Do all Tescos have these?

Carlisle by J4? of the M6 did last week.

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and imperial
depending which whole number or division comes closest to the mark?

I tend to use which ever unit is convient for nice sized numbers. 4'6" is
OK so is 54" but 1371.6mm isn't. I'll occasionally mix and match as well
"1 foot 3 inches 2mm" much easier to picture than 383mm.

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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Christian McArdle wrote:

I normally have to go to France to pick up metric only tapes and my supply
is running low.

RS do metric only tapes.

I wouldn't mind dual-marked tapes so much if the metric measurements were
along the top edge of the tape... I find it much more awkward to use the
bottom edge of the tape.

--
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Microsoft - because god hates us

In message , Alistair
Riddell writes
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Christian McArdle wrote:

I normally have to go to France to pick up metric only tapes and my supply
is running low.

RS do metric only tapes.

As do York Survey Supplies

http://www.yorksurvey.co.uk/products/prods2/tapes/yptapes.htm

And Axminster

http://www.axminster.co.uk/recno/9/p...Grip-Tapes--Me
tric-298657.htm

http://www.axminster.co.uk/recno/15/...ine-Tape-23386.
htm

I keep meaning to get some. I mostly use metric now, I suspect I tend to
use imperial because often they are the marks which are easier to read
for a particular measurement

--
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"Andy" wrote in message
...

"Guy King" wrote in message
...
The message k
from ;¬)" contains these
words:

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and imperial
depending which whole number or division comes closest to the mark?

Nah - I do it all the time. 6'4"2mm for example.

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Metric or imperial on their own are useless - you need a dual marked tape
measure to cope with DIY. Anyone saying otherwise is expressing a purely
political opinion.

Andy.
Yes, the comments regarding dual-marked tapes are perfectly valid. I'll
amend my comment and say that the serious DIYer needs one of each!

Anyone else found that getting imperial floorboards is next to impossible? I
needed 3/4" thick boards 6&7/8" wide but had to buy oversize metric boards
and have them planed down to width and run through a thicknesser to get the
thickness, what a bloody waste of effort, why not supply imperial boards?

In the end I found an old boy at a large Jewson outlet who was sympathetic
and did the alterations for me but what a palaver!

Andy

Andy

"Owain" wrote in message
...
Ron Lowe wrote:
In the oil patch ...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".

When I worked[1] for the council we had employee timesheets in decimal
hours.

Owain

[1] Unusual amongst council employees, I know.


After the French Revolution, the calender was amended to metric by the
revolutionaries, with the inevitable leftovers designated as revolutionary
holidays.
Lasted about two years IIRC.

Andy.

The message
from "Andy" contains these words:

Anyone else found that getting imperial floorboards is next to impossible?

Not at all - go to timber yard, ask them for 3/4" boards and they'll cut
them for you.

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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 00:18:02 +0100, Guy King
wrote:

The message
from "Andy" contains these words:

Anyone else found that getting imperial floorboards is next to impossible?

Not at all - go to timber yard, ask them for 3/4" boards and they'll cut
them for you.

There are two proper sawmills here - both are imperial-orientated. If
you go in there and ask for zrgevp sizes you'll be scoffed as a
newbie.

Although they have 1 lb bags of nails in the sales area in supposed
psuedo zrgevp dimensions.

--
Frank Erskine
Sunderland

"Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬)" wrote:
Christian McArdle wrote:

Wow! Do all Tescos have these?

I normally have to go to France to pick up metric only tapes and my
supply is running low.

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and
imperial depending which whole number or division comes closest to
the mark?

Nope! There is a solution http://www.bobsrule.com/


--
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The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

On 2006-09-23 10:47:44 +0100, "The Medway Handyman"
said:

"Pet @ www.gymratz.co.uk ;¬)" wrote:
Christian McArdle wrote:

Wow! Do all Tescos have these?

I normally have to go to France to pick up metric only tapes and my
supply is running low.

Surely I can't be the only one that juggles between metric and
imperial depending which whole number or division comes closest to
the mark?

Nope! There is a solution http://www.bobsrule.com/

Now I've seen it all.

Last time I was in the U.S. I spotted what I thought was the ultimate
in silly products. This was a contractor's calculator. Basically
one can input figures in their deprecated old imperial feet and inches,
including fractions, and it works out results including the
trigonometry for roof angles and so on.

Maybe they'll enter the 21st century at some point....

I wouldn't mind dual-marked tapes so much if the metric measurements were
along the top edge of the tape... I find it much more awkward to use the
bottom edge of the tape.

My other pet annoyance is that all tapes I have seen are marked in
centimetres rather than millimetres. I know it's not exactly advanced
arithmetic to divide / multiply by 10 but it really would be easier if the
tape was just marked in millimetres to start with.

--
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Microsoft - because god hates us

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from Frank Erskine contains these words:

Although they have 1 lb bags of nails in the sales area in supposed
psuedo zrgevp dimensions.

Ready bagged? How exceedingly modern. We still have to weigh our own and
wrap 'em up in old newspapers. Who'd have thought Kitchener was doing so
well against the Boers.

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Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.

The Medway Handyman wrote:

Nope! There is a solution http://www.bobsrule.com/

Amazingly it is also produced in the UK for "Bob"

:¬)

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