Before you place that order: self measurements

[Rex_Tremende]

Here's a bit of advice I just learned the hard way*: When taking measurements with a cloth or paper tailor's measuring tape, check it against some other standard to make sure it's measuring true.

I just discovered that the 60" tape measure I've been carrying around for a few years now is actually 61". (The irony here is that it was a freebie from the office given out to remind people of our six sigma program promoting the value of taking measurements.)

When exacting kiltmakers are willing to accept specifications to the eigth of the inch, it matters.

Regards,
Rex in Cincinnati, having an "off" week.

*Not a kilt-related incident.

[McMurdo]

Rex,
Thanks for the tip, my kiltmaker replaces his tape at least once a year as the cloth type tend to stretch.

[ChromeScholar]

(The irony here is that it was a freebie from the office given out to remind people of our six sigma program promoting the value of taking measurements.)

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-!

[RockyR]

Rex,
Thanks for the tip, my kiltmaker replaces his tape at least once a year as the cloth type tend to stretch.

Only once a year? We accidentally cut through ours LONG before the year is up... we buy a dozen every 6 months or so.

[The Wizard of BC]

I have a depleted uranium Yard/Meter stick certified by the Greenwich Observatory that I calibrate my tape measures to. Our tape measures themselves are 1044 Stainless Steel but after being bent around customers waists for more than a week will be off by .00012", and are therefore completely useless.
























Any one believing this line is a sick puppy and needs to seek professional help.

[Mr. MacDougall]

Any one believing this line is a sick puppy and needs to seek professional help.

... and there I was, thinking about what impressive biceps the girls in Steve's shop must have....

[Brian F]

...after being bent around customers waists for more than a week will be off by .00012", and are therefore completely useless....

Ya' know, when I took Auto CAD (a drafting program) in high school, our teacher, for the final, made me do my measurements out to the ten-thousandths spot.

When a good friend of mine brought up that no one would ever pay for such exact measurements, he stated, "Well, just pretend you're manufacturing for NASA."

[morrison]

Good words to learn and grow by bro. I've a knack for using the scale available on maps. I can convert miles to inches to meters in a turn of a corner. Unfortuntely for me, once a trip to the grocer had me thirty seven yards into the pacific ocean before I realized my conversion error and had to swim home with a bag of frozen jumbo shrimp and milk and bread!

My kilt got wet.

[cacunn]

I have a depleted uranium Yard/Meter stick certified by the Greenwich Observatory that I calibrate my tape measures to. Our tape measures themselves are 1044 Stainless Steel but after being bent around customers waists for more than a week will be off by .00012", and are therefore completely useless.


Any one believing this line is a sick puppy and needs to seek professional help.

Excuse me sir I work for the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, parent department for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). My office is across the street from NIST and I checked with the kilt specification branch, advisors to the fashion police. The standards you mentioned are the minimal acceptable under government regulations.

[McMurdo]

Only once a year? We accidentally cut through ours LONG before the year is up... we buy a dozen every 6 months or so.

I said at least, man I don't know how often they get replaced exactly. I just know before the festival season he replaced it. Lets face it after the festival season he most likely replaced it again.

All I wanted to do was to illustrate that tapes do stretch.