You forgot to mention that the tape itself is shortened by an 1/16 th of an inch to accommodate for the thickness of the metal so that when you are measuring from the Inside of something the 1/16 th metal thickness is accounted for in the true measurement. So now when measuring something on the Outside edge, starting from the pieces true edge, you'll have 1/16 th inch of air gap then the remaining 15/16 th inch of tape then so on, to give the true measurement again when measuring from the Outside edge.

I learned the reason and understand it now. But my goodness, it could have been explained in 10sec!

Summary: It moves to include or exclude the thickness of the tang in the measurement depending on pull measure or pushed measurement. Saved you a waste of 3 min.

This whole time I thought every tape measure I owned was just made cheaply lol

Very good video! Essentially for some reason it didn't click that the measurement starts from the outside flat part of the hook. I was fixated on thinking the measurement started from the inside of the hook. I was thinking the movement should do the opposite to what it does (somehow making that work), but no. I'm glad you pointed out where the measurement starts from, because the video I watched before this one, left me still confused as to where exactly I was going wrong (I figured it out anyway, but yea. Then watched this one too). Oh, and yea that means the measurement markings don't start from 0 on the actual tape.

Okay but is no one gonna mention how you sound like badger from breaking bad 😂

dam! thanks I was wondering about that, and well you answered the question right away. Have a great day.

Good information and to the point.

very helpful and clear

Thank God, really 🙏. I've needed to know that for years. Tired of being confused.

Wow that made sense lol. Thanks sir

The 10 second version did nothing for me, but I understand this very well!

Thank you so much

It doesn't move to provide consistently accurate measurements. It moves in order to be able to provide measurements with or without the use of the hook. That is the key to the movement, it is to compensate for the hooks width (as is mentioned in the video). The reason for this is that the hook is not always needed to make a measurement. For example, one way to use the tape without the hook is to measure the width or length of a room, you would butt the tape up against the wall to measure to the other end, in which case you do not need to use the hook. One example where the hook is usefull is measuring the length of a table, you would hook the table with the tape measure and measure its length by using the hook to hold the tape in place as you pull it along the tables length.

Thank you.

Why is Bob Odenkirk yelling at me about tape measures?

Genius 😊thank you sir

The thing is, after some time, especially cheap tape measurers, it moves more and more and every measurement becomes a 16th off, sometime more. It should never move but than a 16th. Sometimes it's small enough to not matter, but with things like glass, sometimes it's a bad thing.

If I hear "consistently accurate measurements" one more fucking time.... !!!!

Thank you :)

It’s more for the hook end. The thickness of the hook makes up the small difference.

still dont get it. If i hook the tape measure, The yellow tape is NOT at the edge of the item i am measuring. so it is out by several mm. how is that a correct measurement?

Fucking finally....i thought my measuring tape was defective.....

If I measure inside of something. Then I need to cut a piece to that measurement but by hooking the tape. Wouldn’t it be a different measurement. Slightly ?

I always figured Rosie the Riveter was doing a poor job all along. I mean, three rivets and there's still some slop in the measuring tape? In all seriousness, first time I inspected a measuring tape, I tested it for a 12" distance both pushing up against a block of wood and pulling from the end of a piece of wood. Both came out to a perfect 12". End of story.

Put this at 1.5 speed you are welcome

I don't get it, it does not need to expand to account for the piece of metal to get a true measurment.

I put super glue on mine because I was annoyed by the movement, i thought it's not well made 🤣🤣

Handy Ma'am is that you?

Yikes, made it to 1 min, that’s a hard pass. Try saying the same vague thing over and over more.

To the people saying he could have explained in 10 seconds..yes he could .. and 15 million people still don’t understand after a 3 min vid .

First :46 seconds are “I’m going to tell you the answer”

Thank you for the explication but I don’t think the answer make a lot of sense

Thanks for the quick and easy video explanation. Not sure why people are hating on it.

I’m here cause this know it all cannot be wrong on any topic, on anything, ever. Even though he said it’s for the width of a miter saw blade, I’m sure he’ll have a good excuse to why he’s wrong

Got about 5 seconds in before your silly way of speaking became too much.

You're saying exactly the same vague thing over and over. Ridiculous.

Intro sounds like the apparently kid

Maybe i will stop using a hammer and punch on mine. Maybe.....

Please don't make anymore videos

That voice omg

Keep saying consistent thousands times but never explained anything. I’m just going to use my mom original tape measure for sewing without the bullshits

I'm sorry, but 3 minutes to explain that it's to account for the thickness of the hook ... But thanks.

Did anyone ask?

thumbs down for forced, fake inflection

First minute total waste of time haha

You talk too much