Questions tagged [measurement]

Usually I use a tape measure to do carpentry, but a problem arises when I need to take a precise inside measurement. Because the tape is longer than the area inside the cabinet (or whatever it is) I can only bend the tape and estimate the distance,…

Not a very important question, but I'm wondering what the little diamonds are on my tape measure. It's a Stanley Fatmax from the UK © 2011. The first one is at ~488 mm (~19.2 inch), and then every ~488 mm after that along the tape, but they don't…