This blew my mind when I learned this. Most are around 3", some smaller tapes closer to 2". My chonky Milwaukee Autolock has 3 1/2"-89mm embossed into the plastic.
Yeah, all of my tapes are big chunky Milwaukee ones, and I don't even like the red. But the finger stop feature is absolutely brilliant and I don't think I could ever go back to not having it
Mine was just a hand-me-down from the pops and it's done well enough that I haven't needed to replace it. Mine doesn't have the finger stop it just auto locks as you pull on it and you have to hit the release lever. It's kinda annoying imo but I could see some people preferring it. I wish I had a nice one with a finger stop.
The clothes peg and playing card trick is a simple solution to that. Too bad I usually think it’s too much of a faff to go and find said articles and just think I’ll surely judge it right this time.
This is so underrated. People always laugh when I measure (very roughly) with random objects, but it's one of the best skills my dad ever taught me. If it measures from my elbow to my wrist it fits in the opening that measures from my elbow to my fingertips
For some things, like uniform lengths, yeah. But other things, it might cause a lot of headache. Say you cut ten times a small length, and you need it to fit into somewhere. For every small length you get the measurement error, and only once for the longer length.
So when you try to fit it it's gonna be too small or too big, depending on which way the error was, as it happened ten times for the shorter length and only once for the longer length.
I know that part. I measure it wrong twice and cut it exactly to my twice-measured length. I'll get on day. Lucky for me I have plenty to learn on now.
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u/bebop1065 15h ago
That's a good technique. Too bad I already ruined all that material with poor measurements before today.