Yeah I forgot about the damn Engineer's Tape!

         I used to keep one in my box when I was running a scenery and set
construction crew. One of my guys broke his tape and I told him to grab one
from the big red box. You've got it, he grabbed the one with the tenths on
it and turned six sheets of poplar plywood into offcuts!!

 But in the immortal words of Erk Thaysen, " Its not a mistake until you're
out of material!"           :-)

On 2/1/06, Kjmmensing@aol.com <Kjmmensing@aol.com> wrote:
>
>  In a message dated 2/1/2006 11:24:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
> Hands up how many carpenters on the list?  How many prefer metric?
> I don't mean to be provocative, I'm just asking.    :-)
>
>  As a VW mechanic for ten years I used metric and as a home  re modeler
> for the last ten I use both , mainly based on what materials and tools I
> have available to me. There are definitely times I prefer one over the other
> based on something I'm trying to do.
> I carry tape measures with fractional, metric, and engineers scales.
>
>
> jeff E
> 87' Westy "weekender"
> Atlanta, Ga.
>

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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com