winchman
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I will take some later.
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Robbie260
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Have sets of these on the ships for measuring engine liner wear. Unfortunately doubt anyone will want them outside of a stationary diesel power plant engineer or a marine engineer even then would have to be metric to make them really useful these days.
zzr1200
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I still work in imperial, I cant stand machining in metric, having old imperial machines, might have something to do with it though......
But I do prefer the imperial system, I'm just an old fart...
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I agree, Imperial is much easier. They made a monumental fu in the workshop. They wanted a stainless steel counter top folded up. I measured up at 7ft 6in. They decided to measure it in metric. It should have been 2286 but they measured 2086mm. Every time they make a mistake, it’s always 100mm or 200mm out. That doesn’t happen with Imperial.I still work in imperial, I cant stand machining in metric, having old imperial machines, might have something to do with it though......
But I do prefer the imperial system, I'm just an old fart...
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Does make you wonder when people still cannot read a metric tape measure 57 years after England adopted the Metric system 
I really have never seen the allure of measuring in Twelfty thirds….
I really have never seen the allure of measuring in Twelfty thirds….
did a drawing for toughened glass panels used in one of our machines to cover some halogen lamps.
Bought for several years from one supplier with no issues - 45mm wide +/- 2mm, 200mm long +/-2mm, 3mm thick.
Purchasing changed supplier . . . call from goods inwards - "what's this glass for" and gave me the part number . . . told 'em . . . "best come and take a look . . ."
452 wide, 2002 long, 3mm thk . . .
We went back to the original supplier . . . and my mate got some pond covers . . .
I've sat in design offices both sides of the pond, so had to work in both units - and depending on company, decimal inches, or fractions . . . and some prefer different limits to fractions . . . and when you swap to feet . . .
So I can make really good cock-ups in both units
So I can make really good cock-ups in both units
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Mmm yes stuff for oil and gas it like that, some made metric others imperial. Decimal 8nches I dint mind but all that 13/64malarky does my nut in.I've sat in design offices both sides of the pond, so had to work in both units - and depending on company, decimal inches, or fractions . . . and some prefer different limits to fractions . . . and when you swap to feet . . .
So I can make really good cock-ups in both units
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I used to work for a company whose designer used to use a combination , elasticised Metric/ imperial tape measure where any measurement on his drawing anywhere near what was required was purely coincidental 
Needless to say he was related to the boss, so never got the position on merit or got fired for his numerous cockups
Needless to say he was related to the boss, so never got the position on merit or got fired for his numerous cockups
zzr1200
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If I'm measuring for me, in imperial and I'm doing the cutting as well it's often 37ins + 1/4" + 2 bits depending on the tape measure and where you start to measure from on the tape (the hook or possibly the 10" mark just to get away from the silly little bits)..
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Doesn't help anyone else but does keep it interesting, does anyone else use this method???
..Doesn't help anyone else but does keep it interesting, does anyone else use this method???
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All the time!If I'm measuring for me, in imperial and I'm doing the cutting as well it's often 37ins + 1/4" + 2 bits depending on the tape measure and where you start to measure from on the tape (the hook or possibly the 10" mark just to get away from the silly little bits)..
Doesn't help anyone else but does keep it interesting, does anyone else use this method???
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If I'm measuring for me, in imperial and I'm doing the cutting as well it's often 37ins + 1/4" + 2 bits depending on the tape measure and where you start to measure from on the tape (the hook or possibly the 10" mark just to get away from the silly little bits)..
Doesn't help anyone else but does keep it interesting, does anyone else use this method???
Yep.
Plus I also have measurements like 3ft, 2ins, 3mm.
Ideal world (for me) would be "meters" divided into 36 "inches" of 24mm each There's something about multiples of 12 that just *work*, so much better than multiples of 10.
You’re right, I find it very easy to cock up a long measurement on a tape in metric, partly due to having to find the nearest m I guess. Feet and inches if it’s long, mm if less than a metre for me.
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I couldn't see this answer above, but I think it is an 'end measuring rod' set - for setting up jig borers, etc. as demonstrated in the video below (if you can stomach the presentaton!):
(Actually the video is carp, but it shows how they were used.)
zzr1200
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bigegg
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It's the fractional parts of inches that bug me:Sorted should have stuck with 36,12,
You can't divide stuff into 1/3rds when the tape is measured in 1/64ths.
I have a rule that has 1/20ths and 1/24ths of an inch, as well as1/32s, but it is *very* easy to read the wrong scale.
