Author: [email protected] (Ron King)

You’ve no doubt encountered a number of measuring tools in your lifetime. Common tools used for measuring range from the familiar 12-inch wooden ruler that we used in grade school to precision measuring tools, such as micrometers and calipers that I used during my nearly 20 career as a machinist. Advertisement It might surprise you to know that the common tape measure is not only one of the essential items needed in a home tool kit, it also served as a precision measuring tool during my time as a machinist. As you might imagine,…