"Rich" wrote in message
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No response from UK.d-i-y, so I'll try my luck here. :c)

I bought a cheap open reel surveyors type tape measure, but I'm not
sure
how to use it.

Top part has a handle grip section, and at the opposite end is a
kind
of
pointer.

Like this:

http://bigslickdeals.com/images/cham...apemeasure.jpg

One side of the tape measures in feet and inches and zero is at the
tape
end. Other side measures in metres and cm but zero is about 32cm
from
the end of the tape.

How am I supposed to use this tape meaure. In particular, I cannot
fathom how to use the metric side of the tape measure. .

Either there is a reason that metres scale starts 32cm from the tape
end
or it's a production fault. I just don't know.Thanks

Mine is the same. I suppose you can always add 32cm to the metric
reading.


Hi. Got mine from a Pound shop or something.

This is weird. Cannot understand why metric starts 32cm in from the
end.

I suppose normal usage is tape runs out 90 degrees to the point
feature
and that you can use the point feature to mark the ground. I assume
that
is what point feature is for.

In order to see the metric markings right way up, you have to have the
tape coming out the other side, which you could arrange - but tape
reads
32cm short.

I'm baffled. :c)

Perhaps metric side is taking into effects of relativity when traveling
at warp speeds.