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Thread: Has Anyone Seen My Tape Measure
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3rd January 2017, 09:34 AM #16
Does this mean that somewhere in the multiverse there is a planet populated entirely by tape measures, which have all made their way home through wormholes in the space-time continuum?
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3rd January 2017, 09:37 AM #17
Have you checked the leftover Xmas pud?
"Ohh look, I've got a silver sixpence in mine!"
"That's nothing, mine's got a.......ummmm"
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3rd January 2017, 10:25 AM #18
Have you looked in your dust/useless scrape waste bin? Could have accidentally fallen in.
The person who never made a mistake never made anything
Cheers
Ray
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3rd January 2017, 10:38 AM #19
My measuring Tape is just another thing on the list of things that go missing from/in the shed. Bunnies had 8m metric only Stanley tapes for sale at $9.98 for quite some years. They were made in Thailand. I like to have 2 or 3 on the go at any time because they (any brand of tape) can fail with no notice. Over the years I may have bought 10 or so that there was always one ready to carry on if one had failed or if I couldn't find one of the 3 on the go.
Tapes are not the only things that go missing. I will be working on a small job with a number of parts that need attention of sorts, then between taking these parts to different machines they will go missing. On more that one occasion after spending time trying to find said article I end up getting the wife out to "find" the offending article. On these occasions after giving her a description of the article she invariably says nearly straight away....."is this it?". Yep under my nose the whole time. BUT there are times when doing something that requires a particular tool and you instantly go to it even though only one percent of it is poking out from something covering it up.....go figure. This is just another part of getting old is damned annoying
Just a very small tip....on a Stanley knife that hangs on a shadow board I have attached 100mm of leather bootlace to it. Its amazing, when looking for it the boot lace gives it away long before I actually see the knife.....go figureJust do it!
Kind regards Rod
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3rd January 2017, 12:29 PM #20Senior Member
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Tape measures are something you can never have enough of. I have five on the go, fluoro green, orange and yellow ones but they seem to disappear despite their colour, so I can share your frustration.
Currently looking for my roll of blue painters tape; it's got to be around somewhere!
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8th January 2017, 06:21 PM #22
One of the most handy things that someone uses are tape measures. Would be better to have a few around.
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9th January 2017, 10:42 AM #23GOLD MEMBER
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If it was a feet and inches model it might have gone for a walk.
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9th January 2017, 11:40 AM #24GOLD MEMBER
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The new one has landed in the workshop so I guess it is inevitable the old one will be found shortly.
CHRIS
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9th January 2017, 01:51 PM #25SENIOR MEMBER
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Why do I keep thinking of this thread when I use a tape measure?? And to make it worse it was in my hand (while measuring and thinking of this) and then within 30 seconds I couldn't find it!!! I felt like a goose
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10th January 2017, 09:42 AM #26Senior Member
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After looking for ages to find something I always get my wife to look. Another pair of eyes will find it straight away.
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10th January 2017, 10:19 AM #27GOLD MEMBER
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You let your wife in your workshop??
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10th January 2017, 10:33 AM #28
Gosh - imagine the hassle of having to hide away all the stuff she doesn't know you've bought every time she enters your shed??
"What's that?"
"A plane, dear..."
"And that?"
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"Why do you need so many planes??"
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10th January 2017, 10:50 AM #30GOLD MEMBER
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'Tis found!
Hey Chris, I found the missing tape! Maybe a possum got into your workshop and pinched it.
As I live on the other side of the Royal National Park to you, and possums like to travel across tree canopies, I have put 2 and 2 together so to speak, so now you can blame the travelling possum
Alan...
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