yet another tool?

larry@stinescorner

Well-known Member
Im sure they still make them,,but since the tape measure is more popular you dont see the rule much anymore?
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This one has a sliding measurement device too
 
What you have there, Larry, is an outside read folding rule. When I joined the Pipefitters in 1977, we used an inside read rule and a pair of channellocks in our back pockets at all times. I still have a couple of the rules I got back then...
 
I have a nice folding one made of boxwood and brass with little pins sticking out so you can feel the increments. Was made for the blind to use
and belonged to my father who also had a fibreglass cloth measuring tape that had shallow rivets to mark the numbers.
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The electrician I use has a wood folding ruler, I teased him about using it so he could get more hours on a job. He told me it is
a safety reason steel tapes and electricity don't mix, wood is a non conductor.

Pete
 

Oh yes, still made today by at least Lufkin and Stanley. Finding a 6 footer is easy. Finding an 8 footer requires more leg work.

https://www.amazon.com/Lufkin-X48N-Wood-Slide-Extension/dp/B00002N7Q5
 
I still have my inside reading rule. Former FIL insisted we use that kind on family building projects. Last big project we did was my garage, 1977.

willie
 
That a fancy one with the "depth gage" on it. I think there around a half dozen or better around here...now including the masons one you sent out Larry. use em once in a while but we all carry small(oh 10 12ft)metal tapes in the pocket.... so not as much do we use the wood ones.
 
(quoted from post at 11:29:29 02/21/18) Outside/inside read? Please explain. My dad was a carpenter and I grew up with those things but never heard inside or outside.

Out side reader, With the ruler folded you see the small numbers, 1-2-3.

Inside reader, With ruler folded you see the large numbers, 72-71-70.

The paint and numbers wear off the exposed sides of the ruler carrying it in your pocket, therefore you want to save the lower numbers.
 

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