I absolutely agree I’ve had one pleasant experience in the last couple of years and it was from a retired contractor who came to do work for me… lol
Oh it’s shaping up to be quite nice but its taken forever just to get to where I am today. This should have honestly been a few months of work since I saved up all the money I needed for this. lol
bro some of these guys I wish they had not shown up… I will make a thread specifically for this garage one day I have so many pictures of all the problems I’ve had to combat. haha
Lmao, centimeters…
Well, because of the industry I’m in I actually use tenths tapes. I can still read a framers tape…no, not a dumb tape with the factions printed on it(I know what y’all are thinking lol). But who can add and subtract that shiz on the fly? Not me! Tenths are where it’s at. I even use it at home.
I was a steel fabricator for many years and one of my jobs was to translate all the engineer’s drawings from the various companies my boss hired for the work. They did everything in imperial, down to the 64th. I had to translate that to metric shop drawings for each fabricator , fitter and welder in the shop. I was the official template maker as well so there was the same conversions there too. I got pretty damn good at math let me tell ya. Our tapes had to have imperial on one edge of the face and metric on the other so nobody had any excuses for cutting a 10 or 20 thousand dollar piece of steel too short. LOL
One very common mistake made was setting the tape on the 10cm mark or 100millimeters and using that as the zero because the tab on the end of the tape can stretch a couple millimeters and our “margin of error” or “tolerance” was generally +/- 3millimeters… that’s it.
I have seen fab shops make this error so many times when prefabbing stuff in a shop to be sent out to a jobsite… the fabricator or tradesman set the tape on a specific spot for a definate zero and didn;t calculate that at and add it at the other end of the tape where the cut line goes.
U know I can def see where precision would be huge in that one, metal work usually doesn’t leave much room for fuck ups and if u did u better hope it was leaving excess as the fuck up.
I do the conventions building the booths and I worked with a lot of Germans straight from overseas on some of the builds this year and learned that their screws will always be torx and their measurements are always in millimeters or cm, they had these crazy flip out “measure sticks” that would extend to about 5meters flipping out one section at a time
