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How to Use a Tape Measure

Understanding how to use, care for and store a tape measure are discussed in this free educational video series.

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tape measure there is different types that pull out they all usually have a locking device. This one happens to be at the bottom when you push it, it comes back in, a number of them has a locking device here for your thumb. On the scale as we had on the other one we have a mark at the 16 inch one but this one also has it highlighted a each foot the 2 foot and the 1 foot measure. So that is easy when you are measuring for different framing. No with every interesting thing for these you might think it is a defect but the little metal thing slides back and forth. That is for if you are measuring from a edge out it stretches one way for a measurement, if you are doing the other way and you push it in and it gives you a exact measurement for each side of the thickness of the hook that is on there. They also mostly have a little notch here so you could hook it on a corner fairly easily and so that is a basic tape measure.

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How to Use a Tape Measure

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