Centering ruler
Centering ruler
Here's an interesting tool:
http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/To ... _Rule.html
How many times have you put your ruler on something and had to do the mental math to figure how much up and down to go to get equidistant points from the center?
The scale on the end is nice when you have to keep the ruler square to a surface, or you don't have the room to drop the ruler in from the top.
Steve
http://www.stewmac.com/Luthier_Tools/To ... _Rule.html
How many times have you put your ruler on something and had to do the mental math to figure how much up and down to go to get equidistant points from the center?
The scale on the end is nice when you have to keep the ruler square to a surface, or you don't have the room to drop the ruler in from the top.
Steve
Re: Centering ruler
Regards, Marv
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Great. Now I have to add ANOTHER tool to my list of "I have to make one of those"mklotz wrote:Or you could just make one of these...
http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/larg ... #post37084
That works when you have parallel sides, but not when the sides are not parallel, nor when you don't have access to the sides.
Steve
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But it's much more convenient than a ruler in those cases where it can be used.SteveM wrote: Great. Now I have to add ANOTHER tool to my list of "I have to make one of those"
That works when you have parallel sides, but not whe the sides are not parallel, nor when you don't have access to the sides.
If you have a pair of stair gages (who doesn't?)...
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ ... tair+gages
you can mount them on your ruler at points equidistant from the center and quickly assemble something similar to what I made.
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Me.mklotz wrote:If you have a pair of stair gages (who doesn't?)...
Steve
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It was said tongue-in-cheek. Most folks don't know what they are and even fewer have a set. It speaks to my tool obsession that I have two sets.SteveM wrote:Me.mklotz wrote:If you have a pair of stair gages (who doesn't?)...
Steve
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A typical conversation when a friend needs something fixed goes like this:
"Do you have"
"Yes, I have two"
Steve
"Do you have"
"Yes, I have two"
Steve
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who doesnt have a stair gauge, tramel points, or a 6 inch ruler the middle is three. if math is a challenge. or use a piece of note paper folded in half no numbers involved
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We old school drafters used to split the distance between two lines by laying a scale at an angle with a whole number over each line. Then it was easy to mark of halves, thirds, quarters, etc.
--earlgo
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Before you do anything, you must do something else first. - Washington's principle.
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I remember where someone needed to divide a space into a set number of roughly equal points, and they took the waistband from underwear, marked off inches on it and stretched it out across the space.earlgo wrote:We old school drafters used to split the distance between two lines by laying a scale at an angle with a whole number over each line. Then it was easy to mark of halves, thirds, quarters, etc.
Steve
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This Old House guys use the elastic tape to space railing bars.
--earlgo
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Before you do anything, you must do something else first. - Washington's principle.