I recently found out Shigeru Miyamoto (the creator of Mario and Zelda) likes to carry a tape measure around with him, guess how big things are, and measure them to check how close he was
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Calibrating that thing is a pain.
He's said that even years later it has held up remarkably well. Obviously not millimetre precision, but enough to measure bolt sizes and such.
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"Yep, feels like 16'C today. Write it down, and do the forecast lads"
I just like to answer my boss is strange measurements. What's the wheelbase on that vehicle? Oh that's 26 hands boss man.
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Make sure you use class 1 measure tape because you might be right but the device you're using is not precise.
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Make sure you use class 1 measure tape because you might be right but the device you're using is not precise.
I worked for a bit as a high end roofer (USA), this is the first I'm hearing about different classes of measuring tape. We always used Stanley fatmax tapes, and so did just about every carpenter we worked with. I wonder how accurate that tape is?
I assume it was pretty accurate because we would always fuck with the new guys when they drew a cut line and asked what side of the line your supposed to cut from.
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I worked for a bit as a high end roofer (USA), this is the first I'm hearing about different classes of measuring tape. We always used Stanley fatmax tapes, and so did just about every carpenter we worked with. I wonder how accurate that tape is?
I assume it was pretty accurate because we would always fuck with the new guys when they drew a cut line and asked what side of the line your supposed to cut from.
Stanley doesnt have class 1 measuring tapes, theyre all class 2
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I've started doing the same thing and it's a lot of fun
Thats sincerely such a silly fun fact, thank you for sharing
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I worked for a bit as a high end roofer (USA), this is the first I'm hearing about different classes of measuring tape. We always used Stanley fatmax tapes, and so did just about every carpenter we worked with. I wonder how accurate that tape is?
I assume it was pretty accurate because we would always fuck with the new guys when they drew a cut line and asked what side of the line your supposed to cut from.
That's fucking with people? Maybe in roofers' world it's good enough, but kerf matters!
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Stanley doesnt have class 1 measuring tapes, theyre all class 2
Ha! Gonna let my old boss know. We also did sheet metal fabrication, but very rarely did things need to be accurate to a 1/32nd
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That's fucking with people? Maybe in roofers' world it's good enough, but kerf matters!
It did matter, making them take measurements all over again was the part that fucked with them.
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eh. just leave it. Tell anyone that asked that you found the tape measure, and what kind of man would throw away a free tape measure.
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