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SVcummins · Jan 30, 2020

.were talking 4.44$ tool bin quality here

FBH44 · Jan 30, 2020

??? You gotta explain that to me, I don't get it....

Steve in VA · Jan 30, 2020

I assumed it was binary, but maybe I'm wrong. Linda like the old joke " there are 10 types of people; those that understand binary and those that don't ".

ddbar3 · Jan 30, 2020

Guys look closer.

Steve in VA · Jan 30, 2020

Oh, yeah. Brilliant! Measure twice, cut once, toss out and start over.

jon f mn · Jan 30, 2020

The half inch mark is in the wrong place. The lines look spaced right, but the long one is at 7/16

FBH44 · Jan 30, 2020

Ah, you're right, I neve noticed.

kcm.MN · Jan 30, 2020

I went to buy a 4' level in a local hardware store in Texas many years back. They had 2 of the one I wanted. I went to the checkout and commented that I feel sorry for the fella that gets the other one.

An older guy asks why (I was early 20's at the time, but looked like still in school). Told him the one I left behind was way off, but this one was dead-on. Well, seems he had no idea it was possible to check them. So, I had him go and get the other level.

At the end of the checkout, I marked off a place to ensure repeatability. Laid my level down, then turned it end-for-end, then flipped it. All the readings were the same. Took the other level and tried it and got different readings each time. Afterwards, I made sure they knew their checkout was out of level as well. *lol*

That's still my go-to level!

Unfortunately, my tale is not NEARLY as funny as Jon's tape measure. That's funny!!

mhb@ufe · Jan 30, 2020

That belongs to the guy that cut the board 3 times and it was still too short!

Mark

Willow Lane · Jan 30, 2020

If you use the same tape measure, it doesn't matter

Hendrik · Jan 30, 2020

Come on now, it is only slightly wrong at 10 7/16 and at 10 1/2; what are you complaining about!?!
(Assuming all the other lines are accurate in length and position. LOL)

Traditional Farmer · Jan 30, 2020

Very true,I've used everything from a piece of rebar to a chunk of wood for a 'tape measure' for different things.

Zachary Hoyt · Jan 30, 2020

One time years ago some teenage Boy Scouts came to help with some projects at a building where i was a volunteer. One thing they were doing was putting blocking between the rafters at the top of the walls to keep the chipmunks from coming into the attic. We had some old 2x4s to cut the pieces from. One kid was measuring the spaces with a tape, the other one was measuring and cutting the blocks on a chop saw. The kid who was measuring called out "19 and two thirds inches" and the other kid repeated it back to him, and then cut it. The odd thing was that it fit in the space pretty good and tight.
Zach

Ken Macfarlane · Jan 30, 2020

Someone photoshopped an extra 1/8" into the tape.

Blackhole49 · Jan 30, 2020

As long as you use the same tape to measure with that you use to cut with, you're good.

Bruce from Can. · Jan 30, 2020

Aw, it?s close enough if you are making your cuts with a chain saw!

Centerplate · Jan 30, 2020

My brother was helping a carpenter. After too many miss communications on measuring he bought a tape for my brother with no marks on it at all.

Just measure a board and put one mark on the tape.

Hendrik · Jan 30, 2020

Concur; I have been guilty myself.
However, when it comes to communicating a certain size over the phone I've found it is more convenient to use something more common, like inches or centimeters.

Bob · Jan 30, 2020

(quoted from post at 04:33:24 01/30/20) .were talking 4.44$ tool bin quality here
<img src="https://www.yesterdaystractors.com/cvphotos/cvphoto3643.jpg">

Gosh, not all of that stuff is "bad", some is "Heavy DTUY"!

dr sportster · Jan 30, 2020

That is funny but sad too.

RN · Jan 30, 2020

Late spring flood time, go to Menards and ask about tape measure in cubits, sometime next to the Gopher wood. RN

Crazy Horse · Jan 30, 2020

So China has enough issues making products that meet our high standards (but we still like to buy cheap) ..... and then somebody has to make things even worse for them by photo-shopping a messed up measuring tape and also the lettering on a wrench. There's always somebody lurking out there to fool us mortals .... ha!

SVcummins · Jan 30, 2020

Bruce most of my Carpentry work is about that precise

SVcummins · Jan 30, 2020

😂😂😂

SVcummins · Jan 30, 2020

Everyone gets lucky sometimes although not usually me

SVcummins · Jan 30, 2020

Or a piece of twine ,

paul · Jan 30, 2020

That would be funny if it weren?t so close to true......

I?m still smiling a little.

Paul

CenTex Farmall · Jan 30, 2020

Dtuy: Special tool only alloy.

steve_in_mo · Jan 31, 2020

Put it on the board stretcher. Problem solved.

Rich'sToys · Feb 2, 2020

I know nothing about photo-shop, but I showed the wrench pic to my daughter, who is a graphic artist. She said it's hard to know for sure whether that was real or not, but said it very well could have been photo-shopped. Just to prove it, she changed it back--said it took her less than 5 minutes!

SVcummins · Feb 7, 2020

I really wish I had the ability to photoshop I think
Most of the things like this on the internet are fake

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