How many times have you thought "How did I mess that measurement up?"

[SuperBuickGuy]

how many times have you thought "how the heck did I screw that up?"

I saw something on this on a feed on FB, didn't think much about it until today when I decided to see what was what....

the tape measures (in order of the first picture)

note the Stanley is 1/8" different then the Craftsman?
But it gets worse, there is a 1/4" difference between the Craftsman and the Bauer

Irony, Bauer and Harbor Freight - same company, Craftsman/Stanley - same company

 

[BBShark]

Ah tape measures. I'm still waiting for someone to invent a method to lock the tape that won't fail almost immediately after buying. I have a half dozen and the only one that still works is the metal Stanley, like the one in your picture.

 

[SuperBuickGuy]

Ah tape measures. I'm still waiting for someone to invent a method to lock the tape that won't fail almost immediately after buying. I have a half dozen and the only one that still works is the metal Stanley, like the one in your picture.

I have multiple tape measures for that reason (and convenience) - now my steps to building something is going to be first "calibrate tape measure" to be sure I didn't measure with the HF then build with the craftsman (yeah, it says channel loc but stanley made it off the craftsman production line).
Stay tuned though, I plan on adding more to this fest...

 

[phantomjock]

Makes me wonder; how close the 40" "yardstick" from HF is. Also the Tape-on measurement guides you can purchase for the bench.

I suppose if you picked one, and just used it every measurement would be "Equally off" - UNLESS the scale changes as the length. That would be BAD.

Cheers - Jim