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Besoeker3 said:
Maybe it is USA. I have not seen the 1.125" else where and I have travelled extensively. C'est la vie.
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This is what is very common less the fractional identifiers.

Occasionally you even find 1/32 division marks. Most of us tradesmen don't need to be any more accurate than 1/16 of an inch or in cases where we do we are using something more precise to take the measurement like maybe a caliper type tool. The tape has a mark at the 1.125 distance though it is not specifically identified as the 1.125 mark.

I do have a 100 foot fiberglass tape measure that is only marked in 1/4" increments. I suppose they figure if you are using that long of measuring tool accuracy beyond 1/4" tolerance is not normally important. A lot of the time I am rounding to next foot or even five feet interval when using that tape.
 
kwired said:
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This is what is very common less the fractional identifiers.

Occasionally you even find 1/32 division marks. Most of us tradesmen don't need to be any more accurate than 1/16 of an inch or in cases where we do we are using something more precise to take the measurement like maybe a caliper type tool. The tape has a mark at the 1.125 distance though it is not specifically identified as the 1.125 mark.

I do have a 100 foot fiberglass tape measure that is only marked in 1/4" increments. I suppose they figure if you are using that long of measuring tool accuracy beyond 1/4" tolerance is not normally important. A lot of the time I am rounding to next foot or even five feet interval when using that tape.
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Yes, that would explain it. We use metric for industrial excusively. Metric or, more accurately, SI - System International. Many older people still use feet and inches but I dropped it when I travelled extensively.
 
kwired said:
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This is what is very common less the fractional identifiers.

Occasionally you even find 1/32 division marks. Most of us tradesmen don't need to be any more accurate than 1/16 of an inch or in cases where we do we are using something more precise to take the measurement like maybe a caliper type tool. The tape has a mark at the 1.125 distance though it is not specifically identified as the 1.125 mark.

I do have a 100 foot fiberglass tape measure that is only marked in 1/4" increments. I suppose they figure if you are using that long of measuring tool accuracy beyond 1/4" tolerance is not normally important. A lot of the time I am rounding to next foot or even five feet interval when using that tape.
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Yes, I accept that it is routinely used for USA measurements - just not elsewhere in the world. Unless you want pint in the pub.............................:)
 
LarryFine said:
No, that's the footage plus the red number; in this pic, it's 1'7.2", or 19.2".

It's 1/5 of 96" which can be used to space studs wider than 16" O/C.
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My father was a farmer. I have a notion that he used some of such measurements. I was already comfortably set in my ways with metric units. My wife, from GA, is now pretty fluent particularly with domestic things.
 
LarryFine said:
No, that's the footage plus the red number; in this pic, it's 1'7.2", or 19.2".

It's 1/5 of 96" which can be used to space studs wider than 16" O/C.
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I think another application where this increment is used is for wall paper, I think it comes in 19.2" wide rolls.
 
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