r/mildlysatisfying • u/ThodaDaruVichPyar • 7d ago

Handing down a tool gradually using a measuring tape

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u/fragjackyl 7d ago

And the tape measure remained perfectly accurate and there were no huge downstream consequences

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u/Anbucleric 7d ago

There was no stress on the clip and he didn't let it snap back uncontrollably... no reason for there to be any problems with the printed scale.

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u/fragjackyl 7d ago

As sombody who was breafly in the field the tape itself will bend and become inaccurate, even a small twist can set you off by centimeters. Ut bugs we so much when people treat there takes like shit.

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u/ConflictMaster3155 7d ago

As someone who has been in the field a long time, there is nothing happening here that is going to impact the accuracy of that tape enough to bother a framer or roofer.

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u/Huge-Basket244 7d ago

Bingo. For framing and roofing the tape will be just fine. It also will be okay for fine woodworking still, more than likely.

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u/NagsUkulele 7d ago

Keep two tapes on you one for lowering shit and one for measuring

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u/mawesome4ever 7d ago

Better to keep four. Just in case you need to measure how low you are lowering your measuring tape and the fourth for you to measure other stuff

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u/Excludos 7d ago

If the amount of inaccuracy on this tape measure mattered to that degree, you wouldn't be using a $10 Stanley tape measure to begin with.

Here's a fun fact: No cheap tape measure is actually equal, even out of the box. Buy two different ones from two brand, and notice how they can be off by millimetres from each other already from the first meter (You yanks can do that conversion in your head). They all have varying tolerances. If you need tighter tolerances than that, you need to buy specialized equipment that costs way more.

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u/Ok-Hyena4541 6d ago

A meter is close to a yard which is 3 feet. I wouldn't build anything using that conversion but it's close enough for rough approximation.

A liter is also very close to a quart

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u/dmh2693 6d ago

1 inch is 2.54cm

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u/maboyles90 6d ago

Centimeter(s) is a wild statement. 2.5 centimeters is an inch. There's no way this is stretching the steel of the tape even a millimeter.

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u/fragjackyl 6d ago

Its not stratching the steel, its bending it, and when the whole tape is twisted slightly it get very inaccurate very fast. Fuck do i know though, i only went to school for carpentry.

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u/kingbobert24 6d ago

So untwist it bozo. You might have gone to school for it but I did cabinetry for several years and the only thing that matters is that you're measuring consistently during the same project. Everything else is going to factor on the mm and will be effectively null and void the second it gets more humid or dryer and the wood grows and shrinks. Now for a metal project sure it can make a somewhat significant difference but you dont use a tape measure for precision metalworking.

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u/kingbobert24 4d ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/7HvmcAGrv7U?is=-1nSu0NNvNP1WPXj Unfolds fine to me

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u/kingbobert24 4d ago

OK and I bent it tighter than the radius of a saw handle lmao

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u/maximus0118 6d ago

I work at Home Depot and all I could think was so that’s how the guys keep breaking those dam tape measures.

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u/quaintif 1d ago

Ah yes, it must have moved the numbers on the tape

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u/Noversi 6d ago

Alright Reddit contractors, tell me why this will ruin the tape measure and lead to some random injury

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u/Ok-Hyena4541 6d ago

It'll bend the measuring tape making it not smoothly go in and out. The sides of it are very thin metal so sliding past your hand could cut you without gloves.

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u/Feuerpanzer123 6d ago

tbf I would only step closer once its very low to the ground just in case the measure should break to keep my head, but otherwise idc really

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u/ConnectRutabaga3925 6d ago

now it only extends 5’

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u/General-Try-2210 6d ago

The only thing I could see that could be bad is if you do it many times, the rubberized coating on the handle may wear off and the numbers on the tape measure could wear off as well.

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u/Reasonable-Power 7d ago

Now reel it back in, and drop it, so no one gets hurt.

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u/mikee869 7d ago

The tape measure filed a grievance w the union....

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u/ImStuckInNameFactory 7d ago

Why is the guy down there not wearing a hard hat?

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u/UrieOneMisa 7d ago

Might be one of those bump caps

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u/OniWarthog 7d ago

When I framed houses, safety isn't high in the concern list

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u/Altruistic_Ad_9867 6d ago

If it works it ain't stupid

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u/Ok_Net_5996 6d ago

Get your own saw and quit asking to borrow mine

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u/rwu_rwu 3d ago

Measure twice, drop once?

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u/Luter-13 7d ago

Why my measuring tape showes sloppy measurements 🤔 Stayer's gonna be a shifty brand!

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u/jort93 7d ago

poor measuring equipment bro. Next gonna use a micrometer as a vice?

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u/Primary_Wave_6697 7d ago

i know a man that cut his finger deeply with that 🥸🫳🩸

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u/articland05_reddit 7d ago

yes. I always have such a fear of the tape retracting back so fast my finger got cut

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u/devor110 6d ago

at the very least flip the tape around so it doesn't cut into the tool