Nice video! Straight ahead, no senseless talking, just plain info. Thanks from Germany ☺️

Great content, thanks for sharing it with us and the integrity you have shown us!

First of all, thank you, you made me laugh. (I clarify that I don't want to make fun of you in particular) This video is the perfect demonstration of why the imperial system is inefficient and terrible. You briefly mention that cm is simpler, and I think that's fantastic, but I think you should show your countrymen that it's a much better system... (take for example all the special markings and points they have to add to their meters for it to work) the metric system is much simpler and easier to learn if you try it

Now videos like this i don't regret watching. Educational.😊❤

1:10 There is a big caveat with the CE mark. It's also being used by Chinese manufacturers to mean China Export or something like that, in which case the product does not conform to European standards but is intentionally designed to give that impression. There is a slight difference in the two logos: When there is enough space between the C and the E to make a full circle out of the C without touching the E like you see on both of the tape measures at 1:10 it's the European CE mark; when the C is too close to the E to draw a full circle from it without touching the E like you see on the tape measure at 1:12, then it's the logo used by Chinese exporters to fool you and the product does not necessarily meet any standards or comply with regulations. M;ore often that not it means that the product does not meet the standards or at best is not properly tested.

Very good video again, even if its on something people might see as "simple" as tape measures!

I had 22 1/2. Not horrible, but ultimately, not correct. Thanks for the tips, these are great!

Great 👍

Great video as per usual, keep it up! Growing up with tools since I was 7 makes me happy people share these tips and knowledge. I guessed 22 9/16"

I was about 1/8 too big on that guess, useful tip!

6:05 Yes, if measuring an internal dimension, first measure in a predetermined value from the end the tape measure will be held at, say 100mm for simplicity sake and mark, (that's 11teen feather quips for all u muricans) then measure from the far end to the mark and add the measurement marked to the measurement shown at the mark. This gives you an overall measurement thats accurate to +/- 1/10th of a mm, instead of the 2mm-3mm with the other method.

I appreciate the quality of this video.

Great video. I'm old enough to remember when Canada changed from imperial to metric. While most Canadians use both equally, metric is easier to use and understand.

Groan! you have reminded me why we don't use sixteenths and thirty secondths, or any of those old measurements here any more!

I still dont remember what that 19.2" is used for. Nice video

@40°, 100 m tape is 1.2 mm longer, if it's perfect at 20°

Well done. You made the complex understandable. 👍🇺🇸

Great information, thanks.

great vid For inside measurments I use pinch sticks or the extention that some folding rules have

22 and 5/8 was my guess. Was thinking a bit more than half. Guess it was a 16th less 😊

After being in manufacturing I don’t know why we aren’t using decimal tape measure. 1.1 or 1.5 or 1.7 inches for example. Instead we have fractions.

As a foreigner used to meter I always wanted to know more about this "imperial" measurement nightmare headeache. Now, I know ! ! ! 😁 How come, Americans (and more broadly Anglo-Saxon, Germanics and scandinavians, infact all occidentals excepts latins) that are all category champions about simplifying things and make them more efficient are still using such a complicated way of measuring, weighting, evaluating, etc . . ., things ? ? ? It is beyond me. Industry costs of changing all this, maybe?

22 5/16 Update.. Ahh! Missed it

Why does the tape go the wrong way in the thumbnail?

I guessed 1/2

I just dont get that 19.2 inch diamond mark @4:05......

Ŵhy is it made in China ?

I'm currently working in a metal fabrication department, I'm about to be 46 yrs old and I have no idea how to read a gddmn tape measure. It's a pathetic feeling SMH

I guessed 3/4s

Man did not know half of this

One profound FAULT in design is; most of us hold tape with left hand, and mark with right hand. Why is the printed index upside down? I have only seen one tape and ruler that hold to this maxim.

Step one. Order a tape from Australia. mm only. Never look back.

As longs as I have cm and ft and full inches am OK.. those fractions mean little to me, a diy guy. 🎉

Kinda funny to me how it landed directly on 57 mm, yet all the Americans are messing around with 16ths of an inch. USE METRIC, IT'S SO MUCH EASIER!!!!