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I'd have recommended one tape - Stanley Fat Max metric only (the newer design with the magnetic end). My latest is one of these:
(also available in 5m - below 5m I find tapes to be too short for most uses) - partly because of this:
(best stand-out on the planet) and partly because it lines up with my 8m Bahco, my older 8m Fat Max, my Hultafors Talmeter and the German panel saw in gthe workshop (very important, that). Cheap tapes are generally pretty useless for accurate measurement. I find
In that case you'd better change the laws which require architects drawings to be produced in metric... I hope you are willing to pay from all the innacuracy that moving to an anachronistic out of date measurement system like Imperial will cause, and the millions it will cost to retool manufacturing industry so that they are even less competitive than they currently are with all the Brexit "advantages". I'd love to be there listening to someone like you trying to convince a German sawmill to manufacture everything in Imperial sizes...
(also available in 5m - below 5m I find tapes to be too short for most uses) - partly because of this:
(best stand-out on the planet) and partly because it lines up with my 8m Bahco, my older 8m Fat Max, my Hultafors Talmeter and the German panel saw in gthe workshop (very important, that). Cheap tapes are generally pretty useless for accurate measurement. I find
I thought Imperial was back in now after Brexit.
In that case you'd better change the laws which require architects drawings to be produced in metric... I hope you are willing to pay from all the innacuracy that moving to an anachronistic out of date measurement system like Imperial will cause, and the millions it will cost to retool manufacturing industry so that they are even less competitive than they currently are with all the Brexit "advantages". I'd love to be there listening to someone like you trying to convince a German sawmill to manufacture everything in Imperial sizes...
B@ll@x! Said by someone who learned both and works measuring stuff all day long, every day. Metric is faster ane easier to use and less error prone. Imperial is a dead system and should be quietly laid to rest - along with the people who support itHear Hear! It's high time we reverted to the Imperial measurements and REQUIRED all schoolchildren to learn yards, feet and inches, ounces, pounds (avoirdupois) hundredweights and tons. Outlaw the use of metric measurements! Rule Britannia.
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