Axminster 600mm rule

[Digit]

no idea why the British government wanted to go euro / metric ?

One Edward Heath Esquire wished to prove his pro European credentials I suspect.

Roy.

 

[Rich]

I went to the butchers yesterday and asked for a pound of sausages,
the butcher replied "they are kilos now, Sir",
I replied, ok, I'll have a pound of kilos then.

Rich.

 

[Anonymous]

I went to the butchers yesterday and asked for a pound of sausages,
the butcher replied "they are kilos now, Sir",
I replied, ok, I'll have a pound of kilos then.

Rich.

I went to the green grocers yesterday and asked for 2 kilos of potatoes, greengrocer said "will you take King Edwards?"
I said, "I've enough to carry as it is, tell him to come and get his own"



You can't beat an (updated) old one.

 

[Niki]

No way that you are going to drag me into the "Metric VS Imperial"....I had enough on the American forums and in any case it does not lead to anywhere....everybody will continue to use his "language"...

If you are used to Imperial - use Imperial....it's like you will try to convince me that English is the easiest language and I will try to convince you that Hebrew is the easiest language in the world and everybody must use it (because for me - it's native)......Oh, by the way, out of the 5 languages that I can hear....I think that the Japanese is the easiest....if you disregard the Kanji, of course

Roy
Who is cutting the cake in tenths...I cat it in the middle and eat the part that is close to me....I also look like that (85Kg or 170 Pounds....I don't know in stones )

Regards
niki

 

[George_N]

What is your "gold standard" to check the 600 mm rule against? I once bought an aluminium 1 m rule from B&Q...printed graduations rather than etched...what a load of rubbish. Not even a straight edge, so a dead loss. I bought an Axminster 1 m rule (actually 40") which I have checked against my tape and shorter rules, and they all appear to agree. By the way, the 40" rule is pretty wide and the Axminster rule stop fit it fine (maybe they have changed the spec since I bought mine). I find the rule stop so useful if I am laying out for cuts on sheet goods with my home made sawboard.

The 40" rule is 35mm wide - the stoop opens up to 32mm

oh well !

My 40" rule is also 35 mm wide and my Ax rulestop fits just fine. They must have changed the spec.

 

[lurker]

Tony,

I bought a caliper from lidl as my eyes are getting so I can't easily/ quickly read from a rule.

I took it into our Metrics dept ( these boys work with defence areospace stuff) and asked them how good it was, so it was calibrated using a couple of million worth of kit.

They were surprised how accurate it was across its whole range. A few of them are into hobby modelling and promptly went to lidl to buy themselves one!!

 

[newt]

I have to agree with Tony accuracy = money. I bought the axminster straight edge and took it back disgusted it was really very bad, the beveled edge was concave, over a mm in 600. I now have a Veritas steel straight edge, which I have checked against my lathe bed (which was checked by a Myford engineer using a tool room standard) and it is spot on I do not have a feeler gauge thin enough to measure.

 

[Niki]

I have to agree with Tony accuracy = money.

In most of the cases - it's true but in some cases....

The straight edge on the picture below costs around £10 (62 Zloty), it's used by the "wall-to-wall carpet" guys.

I found it very accurate...I don't know what is the error over the 2.5M (or 98½" for all the guys that speaks the "imperial" language ), but, it makes beautiful and accurate glue line (yes, on the router table - but I'll not show you...because Tony is watching ) and a very nice straight edge with the circular saw, hand held router or, on the table saw (just used it today on the table saw to straighten one side of a 2,300mm (90½") long board).

niki