Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Varieties Of Tape Measures

By Teresa K Knight


There are numerous various kinds of tape measures available in the market each one designed for distinct uses. Surveyors tape is large drum which are generally 50 meters long for measuring huge dimensions. Laser distance measure tapes are usually put to use again by surveyors. These can be used quickly when measuring walls and even whenever you are pricing up work. Digital tape measure is a measuring tape having a electronic measurement display, never owned one thinks they are a bit gimmicky.

Whenever you are taking measurements, you must align the tape measure completely from the start of the item. Keep the object you'll want to take measurement of at a flat working surface. It is essential that the object to be measured is kept flat or else the measurements will end up inaccurate. Larger objects need be read in inches and feet. There'll be instances when you'll have to go with centimetres or millimetres as well for precisely measuring the object. English directions become completed in inches and feet measurements.

Mark your measurements with a caret rather than a line to be sure the label is precise and not affected by the width of the line. Coat the metal blade using paste wax or even spray it with silicone to help keep rust at bay as well as maintain smooth sliding. Take care not to cut yourself when recalling the tape. Its sides are dull yet they can still cut. Don't draw the tape out past the allowable length or you will not be able to put it back to its case.

First of all, the measuring tape should be positioned length wise along with the remote control to register its length. The bottom of this object that you are measuring may fall inside the fraction portion of the inches. There'll be sixteen lines between the first inch and the second inch. Just in case the measurement of the item ends up in the middle of an inch, then your measurement must be read as the inch number and / plus half (1/2). Meanwhile should the measurement of the item ends up on one of the smaller lines, this could be read as one-fourth (1/4) or three-fourth (3/4). Simply because 2/4th is 1/2 and 4/4th is the next inch. A similar rule can work with 1/8th and even with 1/16th. You could try documenting the smallest number possible while you are writing down the dimensions. So if the remote was eight inches and 10/16th, the correct measurement will be eight 5/8 inches. This same concept works using centimetres and millimetres too. The remote control that is 8 5/8 inches could translate to 21.7 centimetres or 217 millimetres. Whenever measuring in centimeters and millimeters with a measuring tape, just keep in mind that you should not mix the two. In such a particular case, the measurement can be either in centimeters or millimeters.

Certainly, tape measures are the ideal and flexible measuring device to a lot of people from store clerks to farmers, engineers to carpenters, technicians and doctors due to its flexibility which can be used to measure everything from tight corners to curves.




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