Can you tell me why there’s markings every 19.25 inches on measuring tapes ??
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Nailed,
Just want to be the first to say . Check the archives !
I-Joists . They are typically placed at 19.2" o.c. This spreads the spacing a little. While still allowing 8' sheets to break evenly.(19.2 x 5 = 96")
I-joists are a bit stiffer than 2x10 so they can spread them a bit.
My head hurts...
Mine too......what the heck was I thinking?
Heck you should be conditioned by nowOn An Island By The SEA
You would think.....
I even thought about pulling this one myself a little while back,but even I had more class than that.what the heck was I thinking?
The "I am a model and I need strong men to help me" thing has been used too.
I guess we will have to get creative.
Hmmm ?
Would you believe I am a family member of a very wealthy Nigerian royal family and I need your bank Account # ......................On An Island By The SEA
You know, I really wanted to believe that one.........what the heck was I thinking?
It's the tape they use to measure things on the porn sites
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Nailedby- In the event you are wondering what these folk are talking about and seeing this was your second post: the question you just sited was one of the many very common questions that are repeated here with frequency. Often times the regulars will share the load of response to the query. Then it's like a turkey shoot, all in fun.
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Half of good livin' is staying out of bad situations.
Does anyone know how to use the little straight line marks between the numberrs and what they stand for?
Jim
Ya, I've seen those. Half of good livin' is staying out of bad situations.
Them're called "deals" as in "Its twenty inches and one, two, three, uh, four deals,"
If you're doing precision work, use more deals.
PS All this time I thought it was 19 3/16 - 19 1/4 is a lot easier to use.... not so many little deals.
Actually,it's 19.20" which is 3.2/16.
Too many deals for me.what the heck was I thinking?
tahnks alan my life is complete can you cal them thingies or is that different?
jim
Alan-
Actually, for precise measurements, 'splitting hairs' so to speak, it would go something like : " Twenty inches and a BCH."
Ken Hill
Thank you, Great to have a resource like this to come to for information...appreciate the welcome and , yes , I came accross this in FWW. I now know of more reasons for the 19.3/16 markings than the 16 in. !!!!!
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It actually has its origins in Geology.
I the Diamond mines of South Africa the unique composition of the diamond bearing strata and the rare conditions required for formation of diamonds results in the phenomenom of gem-quality diamonds being formed in a Hexagonal lattice pattern with a side equal to precisely 19.2 inches.
Stanley tools started manufacturing tapes with these markings to for the DeBeers Co. in the fifties and has not bothered to change thier tooling.
The Answer guy.
Do not try this at home!
I am a trained professional!
SAY WHAT!!!!!!!?????????
I have a very old (100+ years) cloth winder tape measure (silk?) in a walnut dovetailed box with markings every 21 inches and a red star every 7 feet. ??????any guesses?????Ditch
that's for using seven foot sheet goods with equal joist, rafter and stud spacing.
jim
I was always wondering why they made sheet goods in 7' sizes a hundred years ago.
Ditch
how the hell did you now that? Impressive
scott sometimes yer just that smart and sometimes yer just damn lucky.
me and my brother used to say "What one of us doesn't know the other can fake."
jim
T hooked himself a bass.You pompous egotistical redneck, it's not a ponytail. I'm just getting ready for a mean combover and it'll look a lot better than yours!
Sometimes I'm the yahoo, and sometimes I am the one covering for the yahoos. Ya bunch of yahoos.
Nailedby...
The marks were on the tapes long before I-joists, or any other sort of engineered joists. The marks represent just another way to divide 4 feet. (or is it 8 feet ?) Saving one stud, over using the 16 inch measurement.
Don't bogart the Ghost
Quittin' Time
I'm goin' with the Stanley-deBeers Conspiracy Theory. It just sounds better.
ROFLOL
Sounds like good solid reasoning to me.
; )Don't bogart the Ghost
Quittin' Time
Next time I'm at the Dopey Depot, I'm a-lookin' for a tape that's got mysterious pentagonal markings on it.
that's the best post yet....have some fun and ask whoever's hiding in the tool dept what the marks mean.
JeffBuck Construction Pittsburgh,PA
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I'm working on an eighty year old house now that has most floor and roof framing at about twenty inches OC. Hard to say exactly since it's all rough cut and I don't open all of it up, but I'll bet they had a DeBeer's tape measure to build it with.
Ya-
Hoooooooo!.
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"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
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"Thingies" are metric, "deals" are standard.
Let me guess...20", 19", 19", 22",24", 23" and 17"?
And how far did the house tweak making those bays trapzoids?You pompous egotistical redneck, it's not a ponytail. I'm just getting ready for a mean combover and it'll look a lot better than yours!
Oh, so you're the one who built it?
;).
Excellence is its own reward!
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."
--Marcus Aurelius