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By Dad, How Do I?
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Tool Tuesday – Tape Measure
How to use it, and why you need one in your tool kit.
The Curve
The Lock
The Black Numbers
The Red Numbers
The Red Numbers every 16″ for stud spacing.
The Nail Grab
The Top Hook
The Scribing Tool
The reason for the wiggly end.
Tape housing measurement
The Black Diamond
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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hey kids nice to see you again
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uh so it’s tool tuesday so today’s tool
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is going to be a
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tape measure there’s a lot of little
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different things about a tape measure
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that you may not be aware of so i
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thought i’d run through those
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uh and i have a dad joke for you before
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we do that i wanted to tell you just a
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couple
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a couple quick nice things about a tape
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measure um i’ve been in
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i sell office supplies for a living
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that’s what i’ve done for almost 30
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years and
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um many times i’ve had people um
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order a white board like a three foot by
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four foot white board
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it arrives and then i get a call oh i
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didn’t know it was going to be that big
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well it’s a three by four white board
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when you order a three by four
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white board it’ll be three foot by four
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foot right you can count on it that’s a
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nice thing about
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uh measurements right so and then also
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i was thinking uh you know there’s been
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many times too over the course of my
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life that i’ve
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learned the hard way some things you
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know like when you buy a couch
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and you’re trying to fit it through your
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doorway it’s best just to pull out your
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tape measure
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measure that entryway before you get and
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you’re carrying this heavy couch and
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you’re fighting it and it’s like oh i
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want it fit well
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measure the couch measure the doorway
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and
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it’ll probably save you a little bit of
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grief so before we get into that i have
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a dad joke for you
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uh what did the donkey do when he got
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cut off in traffic
01:24
he honked ah so uh let’s get started
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okay so before we get into all the
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different parts of a tape measure let’s
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make sure we understand what the
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markings are
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to um some of these finer markings
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anyway
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um so each of these bigger marks is an
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inch
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right so one two three four five six
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we’re working our way
01:45
inch by inch and then these smaller
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markings
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if you’re going halfway in between right
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so this is an inch
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that’s an inch and a half right in the
01:53
middle there so and actually on this one
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you can see
01:56
and so when you go to buy your tape
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measure depending on what you’re using
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it for
02:00
you know this is a 25-footer this is a
02:02
12-footer and the 12-footer is handy for
02:05
you know measuring small things if
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you’re getting into any kind of
02:07
construction you want at least a
02:09
25-footer
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but so if we look at this this actually
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divides it all up for you so if you’re
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trying to figure out
02:16
four and a half right so you just go
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four and then a half but then what’s
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this number
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that’s a fourth and if you’re not good
02:25
at math it might be helpful to actually
02:27
get one that actually
02:28
spells it out for you see this one
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actually spells it out
02:31
um so it tells you what each one is you
02:33
know halfway through is a half
02:37
not trying to get basic but boy i’ve had
02:39
people say uh
02:40
hey can you just measure that for me and
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let me know what the size is
02:44
uh and then there they get intimidated
02:46
by all these dashes
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so yeah it might not be a bad idea for
02:50
you to go ahead and get something that
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actually has
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uh has the markings for you so okay
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let’s get into the tape measure
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okay so the first thing i want you to
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notice is the curve
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see how it’s curved the reason for that
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is so that when you extend it out
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it’ll hold up right you can get this one
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out this is a 25 footer and i can get it
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out
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almost i think 10 or 12 feet before it
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snaps or gives in you know to the to the
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weight of it if it was flat it wouldn’t
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do that right so that’s a nice thing
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about it
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here’s another thing the lock you can
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push that lock down and hold it
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right so that holds it wherever you want
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it and then when you
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let go of it i find it’s helpful to kind
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of
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have my my finger on the bottom as it
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comes back in because if you don’t it’s
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gonna
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which isn’t that big a deal but anyway
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just a little tip for you
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so uh so let’s take a look at it too
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so we have we have black numbers
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right and every black number is is an
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inch
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right so that makes it easy so when you
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get to
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a foot it’s got a one foot right there
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in black
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after that it starts it continues to
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count up in individual inches right so 9
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10 11 12 13 but also on the other side
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it says
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one foot and then it’s got a red number
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there see that
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so one foot one inch one foot two inch
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one foot three inch
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okay so those are that’s a nice way to
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be able to
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as you’re laying out a room or whatever
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laying out flooring trying to figure all
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that out
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it’s helpful to be able to call out
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exactly what you’re looking for
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okay and then um
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let’s see so as you get to
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get further on up you see this 16 inches
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remember
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if you’ve watched my um my stud
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video on how to find a stud my stud
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finder video
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um every 16 inches you’ll find a stud
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in your walls or you should if it’s
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built properly so every 16 inches
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on center that means you know the center
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of the stud is every 16 inches so as we
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work this thing out
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because we pull this out see there’s
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another red 32
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that tells me that’s where that other
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stud is okay
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all right so here’s a new another cool
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feature that
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many people might not even be aware of
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is there’s this little
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see that little slot there that’s
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actually meant to
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go over a nail so you can measure that
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way
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okay so it just clips onto a nail like
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that
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okay and then there’s actually these top
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hooks too on nicer
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uh tape measures see those hooks that
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are sitting out at the top there
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right there so that way you can hook
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that like that okay you hook it on the
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edge
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and pull that way okay uh
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some of these actually have a scribing
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tool too um on the end here so that that
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way you could mark it
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and roll it back and forth like that to
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mark it this one
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this particular one doesn’t here’s a
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kind of a cheaper one that actually has
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it has a serrated edge if you can see
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that
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right so that you can actually um you
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can actually scribe
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as you’re making a mark if you don’t
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have a pen
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okay here’s another thing that’s pretty
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important
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is this you know how this thing wobbles
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back and forth a little bit the end
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it moves back and forth there’s actually
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a reason for that
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okay and i’ll show you why if we’re
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measuring this box
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here and we want to measure the outside
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we hook it on and we pull it like that
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okay but if we measure the inside and we
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do this
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we’re actually going to be a 16th of an
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inch off so what you want to do is push
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it
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and then now you’re getting a good
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accurate measurement of the inside
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okay does that make sense so it’s
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factoring in
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the difference of an outside measurement
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and an inside measurement
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okay uh here’s one last thing
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too on a nicer
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uh tape measures like this one it
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actually will tell you on the side
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the width of this this is three three
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and a quarter inches
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and the reason for that is if i’m going
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to do this and try to measure here
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i can take this measurement actually i
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got to squish it right make sure
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thanks for asking i was i was breaking
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my own rule so
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here got to pull back if you want to get
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an accurate measurement you just take
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this
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and you add three and a quarters inches
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to it okay
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so and lastly there’s actually this
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black
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diamond here um and it’s pretty much on
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every
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uh every tape measure you don’t need to
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worry about it um
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if if if you’re getting into that it’s
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actually having to
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um the spacing between uh floor joists
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and
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and i-beams so if you’re that far along
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then
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you probably know more than i know about
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about a tape measure but anyway so just
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so you know those are
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that’s what that is so um all right
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let’s wrap this up
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okay so that’s pretty much what uh what
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a tape measure does
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uh very handy good to know
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right get into all the little uh small
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intricacies of it
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and it’s definitely something you want
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in your tool kit so
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thanks for watching and god bless you
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