Learning to Read a Tape Measure For Beginners / A Trick From Gramma

Learning to read a tape measure for beginners / a trick from gramma
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[@Christinaanncat]

Thank you! Under 5 minutes you taught me a thing I needed to learn for decades! You also just cut my time in half searching for correct socket size 🎉

[@papajoeknows8355]

Glad to hear it 👏🏻

[@haydentaylor5347]

Thanks for the tips! I use a MM calipers a lot in my day to day use but need to bust out the imperial tape measure for bigger jobs. I understood the 16ths well enough but your tips on skipping to reduced fractions like 8/16 a 1/2 and counting backwards will definitely speed things up.

[@melodyclark4347]

I'm so glad for this one ! I was confused calculating 8ths.
Have a great day.

[@papajoeknows8355]

It’s funny, I had a guy working for me who didn’t have 1/8ths down yet, so I’d call out measurements to him like 5 1/2 fat fat (5 5/8) or 5 1/2 thin thin (5 3/8). And that’s how we cheated our way into 1/8ths lol.

[@MarshaLynn1025]

Excellent video! Thank you so much. I’ve never been able to read a tape measure and have to have my husband help me. Love this channel!

[@papajoeknows8355]

Thank you, and glad it was helpful!

[@ronvalley1973]

Hi Joe, hey you are hired to work at Tony's cabinet shop, my dad, only problem is, the shop ain't there anymore. I was out of college almost two years and working at dad's shop for the first time at the age of 22, and I would only get interested in loose chair repair. why? Because I could not read a tape measure, wow, so this was a very interesting video for me if you can dig that. never did like cabinet building anyway, as it made way too much dust, and besides, I was hauling in more money than those guys because they took so long to finish their jobs and I was like in and out the door with stuff weekly so much they knick named me .....the barber.

[@papajoeknows8355]

“The barber” lol. I like it!

[@buttonsf3293]

I'm a numbers geek so you just got my sub 😁

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Thanks for the sub, and welcome!