Always some excellent advice here, kept throwing the things in a box and using them only on rough jobs where i might drop the thing and I'm simply looking for close enough, never once did i think the things can be adjusted if they are a little off always getting good advice from this guy half a planet away.
In my workshop I have both the 6" and 12" Starrett combo squares, my job site combo squares are cheaper but still good 6" and 12" Empire units. An easier way to adjust the foot in the slot of the body of the combo square is to use the corner of the ruler in the square as a scraper, works great! Cheers from Tokyo!
What about a proho tool box for the house? Sure we all have tools in our shops or garage but I’d be interested in seeing tool box ideas, love your channel have a great day
mitutoyo, starrett, brown and sharpe, lufins make some of the best squares, dont need to spend hundreds of dollars on them, going to estate sales, you will find one for a fraction of the price. beautiful, high quality and something you will keep it and pass it on
As a professional carpenter, I use my speed square to everything that silly thing does. I mean, are you going to carry a torpedo and a speed square & that thing? Blessings.
My uncle passed me down his old one in 2005, it was made in 1974 and I had it laser leveled, its still straight to this day, granted I've never used it since I've bought myself a new one in 2010.
The only way the tape on top helps is if you attach a bracket off the side of the wood to attach the decking to and never penetrate the tape. As a roofer I can promise you that water follows threads through any material because of thermal expansion. It looks nice during construction and may reduce noise but don't have any false assumptions about negating rot any more than normal treated lumber
Buy a quality square set. Starret is great. Brown and sharp is good. Store the rule flat in a drawer. Also get a speed square for for rough work. Keep your good squares for fine work
Mine is from a wooden crate with a hot branded "Stanley Tool Co" on the bottom. I trust it more than anything else I own. Also, I am east coast man! (Edited for drunken spelling mistakes)
Wow I have an extremely old one rusted all over from my great uncle. he built a beautiful 4000sqft "house" in new river Arizona, hot days in the summer, cold windy days in the winter. May seem like easy conditions but trust me it isn't..
Strange seeing a tool i use daily with a different set of measurements (imperial inches and fractions over metric millimeters) Are there any advantages to using imperial? ideally id like to be able to use both but i have trouble getting my head around imperial. Ive never had imperial explained to me by anyone that uses it. For reference 10mm in a cm 100 cm in a meter and 1000 meters in a kilometer. Same scaling for weight and volumes. thanks for any clarification from the comments section. Id love to be proven wrong and learn something new.
There are some advantages. One is divisibility, e.g.1 foot breaks evenly into halves, thirds, quarters, and sixth (6,4, 3, and 2 inches respectively) base 10 only gets you halves and fifths. Some people may find the units are better suited to things on a human scale (inches/feet more suited to human scale distances than meters/centimeters or oz/pounds and oz/pints more suited to the quantities we often deal with than l/ml or g/kg. Granted this means that people may find that metric is more of a natural fit in things like precision machining. How big is a foot, we'll about the size of your foot. How much is a cup? About the size of a cup. How far is a mile? About 1000 strides (mile from roman mille). There is just a practicality and ease of visualization that comes from it's more organic origins. And there is some cohesion between the units (like therr is in metric but less well known) like a pint of water being about 1 pound. Ultimately, it's just more natural/human in derivation and less constructed/abstract which yields positives and many negatives/idiosyncracies too!
You ever watch Paul harrel? He just made a 3 day emergency bag video and videos on the types of firearms that he'd pack, Im interested in your thoughts on his videos and choices
The cheap combination squares with the aluminum body are worth their price, one drop from height its trash. A high quality combination square is in the $100's These proho squares are great for limited use, like the 129 piece tool set for $49.00.
