Who Said Measure Twice.

[Waka]

I've been making a television cabinet for a friend of mine over the last couple of weeks out of AWO. The cabinet has three drawers as well as the space for the DVD recorder.

Cut all the material for the drawers and last week I dovetailed two of them together, tidied them up and did the final tweaking for a nice snug fit, all there's left to do on these two is the drawer fronts.

Yesterday I dovetailed the other one together and left the glue to dry overnight. Went to do a dry fit this morning and found out that it was to wide, although I'd sized the wood for the other two I'd not completely finished this one. So Looks like I'll have to make a new drawer tomorrow.

Must be my age.

 

[woodbloke]

Must be my age.

...either that or you need some more lime green kit Waka :lol: :lol: - Rob

 

[Chems]

Funnily enough they do do. . . . . .

 

[Shultzy]

I bet its a snip at 50 notes, or is that the scissors . :lol:

 

[Waka]

I do likie lime green but not a tape at that price

 

[chippy1970]

dont worry they are only £13 they have a couple of good gadgets on them too, a built in compass pin for drawing circles and you can measure internal sizes ie an alcove width and it shows the exact size in a window. I havent bought one yet but im sure i will one day :lol: i think they are made for festool by BMI who do the exact same tape but in red.

 

[JohnBrown]

I Have the BMI version (in red). The fold-out compass pin isn't retained very reliably and the push-to-lock function isn't too hot either. Maybe the green version is different is this respect - but I doubt it, as the picture looks identical.

It is handy to be able to take a direct reading from the transparent window, rather than having to try and read how much to add on for the case body, if only because both Stanleys I own have the body size embossed in tiny writing that I can't read without a good light and glasses.
I suppose I should memorize such things, but my brain is too full of other rubbish, like the two hundred odd passwords one needs these days in order to do anything.

 

[Lee J]

Funnily enough they do do. . . . . .

Does anyone own one of these? Im looking for a new tape measure and I like the look of this one. Is it plastic? how sturdy is it?

 

[JohnBrown]

See my post above!

 

[speed]

the festool is exact copy of the bmi tape.

i use stanley fatmax tapes daily

 

[Anonymous]

the festool is exact copy of the bmi tape.

i use stanley fatmax tapes daily

Thanks for that. :roll:

 

[superunknown]

I'm on maybe my 4th BMI version of that tape. They are a great tape measure and the internal measuring facility is very useful.

 

[SammyQ]

Whoziss "BMI" then?

 

[superunknown]

Measuring tools manufacturer. I think they are German.

http://www.axminster.co.uk/page/find/?name=bmi&page=1

 

[SammyQ]

Cheers Superunknown! I use a 'reversed' tape a lot of the time; makes for easier reading. Sam