I recently purchased an engineer's scale from ebay and I love it. I trained as a carpenter and woodworker and I hate having to deal with fractions on a calculator. Mostly I just memorized the decimal equivalents to fractions. I thought to myself, why can't a foot be divided into 10 rather than twelve? So "I searched the world over and finally found..." the Engineer's ruler. I use it all the time when I do remodeling, especially when I need to divide a space into however many sections it needs to be divided into. I have always wondered why the foot is divided into twelve and then inches are halved then quartered and on and on... the counting system has been based on ten since Roman times, at least, so why have we been dividing by twelve? Maybe it was those six fingered giants in Egyptian times that gave us the measuring system. Don't even get me started on clocks!
Haha I hear ya! Tenths is much easier and no fractions involved. If I'm doing home repairs I usually measure in inches just because when I'm looking up materials or sizes of things online it's always in inches. But I use engineers scale at work every day. I've gotten the conversions down where I almost don't even need to think about it anymore. But that's because I work alongside carpenters who use inches so I constantly convert in my head when I'm giving them measurements.
Hey there! Thank you so much for this video! I’m a machinist and all we deal with is thousands. I was wondering if there was such a thing as a “1/10ths” tape measurer and I found your vid! Thanks again I’ll definitely be buying one. Video put together extremely well.
Hey guys! Let me know if this video helped you to better understand how to read a tape measure in tenths! Check the link below on where to buy this style tape measure! Be sure to like this video, leave a comment and subscribe to the channel for more tool and diy videos! Thanks for watching, have a great day! (Paid link) Link to buy a tape measure in engineers scale: amzn.to/45bRjax
I've used metric before for work on certain jobs with international clients. I don't mind using it at all. If I'm at work generally I'm working in tenths but if I'm home I usually grab the inches tape measure. Not sure why.
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I recently purchased an engineer's scale from ebay and I love it. I trained as a carpenter and woodworker and I hate having to deal with fractions on a calculator. Mostly I just memorized the decimal equivalents to fractions. I thought to myself, why can't a foot be divided into 10 rather than twelve? So "I searched the world over and finally found..." the Engineer's ruler. I use it all the time when I do remodeling, especially when I need to divide a space into however many sections it needs to be divided into. I have always wondered why the foot is divided into twelve and then inches are halved then quartered and on and on... the counting system has been based on ten since Roman times, at least, so why have we been dividing by twelve? Maybe it was those six fingered giants in Egyptian times that gave us the measuring system. Don't even get me started on clocks!
Haha I hear ya! Tenths is much easier and no fractions involved. If I'm doing home repairs I usually measure in inches just because when I'm looking up materials or sizes of things online it's always in inches. But I use engineers scale at work every day. I've gotten the conversions down where I almost don't even need to think about it anymore. But that's because I work alongside carpenters who use inches so I constantly convert in my head when I'm giving them measurements.
machinest too we use thous that means thousand of an inch\
Good to know! I didn't realize machinists used this way of measuring as well! Thanks for watching and for the comment, have a great night!
Thank you for this !!!!!
You're welcome! Glad the video helped you out! Thanks for watching, have a great weekend!
Hey there! Thank you so much for this video! I’m a machinist and all we deal with is thousands. I was wondering if there was such a thing as a “1/10ths” tape measurer and I found your vid! Thanks again I’ll definitely be buying one. Video put together extremely well.
You're welcome! Glad the video helped. Thanks for watching and for the comment! Have a great night!
Hey guys! Let me know if this video helped you to better understand how to read a tape measure in tenths! Check the link below on where to buy this style tape measure! Be sure to like this video, leave a comment and subscribe to the channel for more tool and diy videos! Thanks for watching, have a great day!
(Paid link)
Link to buy a tape measure in engineers scale:
amzn.to/45bRjax
American version of the metric system…
More people should use this…
I’m born and raised in America, and I work by myself and use metric tape measures
I've used metric before for work on certain jobs with international clients. I don't mind using it at all. If I'm at work generally I'm working in tenths but if I'm home I usually grab the inches tape measure. Not sure why.