Looking for a 6" rule

[MattF]

The Duratool ones turned up today. They're actually a pretty close match. I can definitely work with those. Main difference is slightly thinner metal, & not quite as rigid. Neither is an issue. Old & new pictured.

 

[not done it yet]

, actually though the same myself

Don’t forget SWIMBO.

 

[bricol]

We had a jobsworth at one place that wanted all the rules & tape measures calibrated before we could measure anything job related, we got round the problem by using these stickers

Afraid if it's an engineering company, I don't agree he was a jobsworth. My first full time engineering job was with a small family owned company - all personal measuring gear along those lines was checked against our standard, and given a suitably colour coded sticker to show it had been checked - I can't remember the frequency of checks - a few times a year.

It didn't mean they were all accurate, but they were all precise.

It meant if I measured something, designed something to fit, someone else made it - it fitted. As I can prove with several tapes I own, none of them agree, and can be pretty different in short distance.

 

[Robotstar5]

Afraid if it's an engineering company, I don't agree he was a jobsworth. My first full time engineering job was with a small family owned company - all personal measuring gear along those lines was checked against our standard, and given a suitably colour coded sticker to show it had been checked - I can't remember the frequency of checks - a few times a year.

We only used them to measure bits of steel etc. for brackets to hold shelves, sensors etc., anything to do with the welding fixtures we would use the calibrated stuff from metrology.

A good example of the jobsworth was when we wanted to weld a bracket inside a welding that has welding going on pretty much 24/7, he wanted us to obtain a hot works permit, we just waited until after 5pm when he went home so there was no-one to issue a permit