$46 for that Starrett. Never going to happen. I recently bought a German Staedtler for $4.95. It seems that you a paying for a name with Starrett or even Mitutoyo (which is less than half the price of the Starrett, BTW). You can't tell me the Starrett will somehow give you better measurements than the Staedtler. They are all marked to a much finer tolerance than the reading/operating error of even the most skilled craftsperson. $46 for a 6" steel rule. Insanity.
Besides that, at least for me, I don't find *that* much use for a plain old ruler. But what I do find myself needing a lot is a thread gauge. How many times have I grabbed, say, a bolt where the corresponding nut was lost or something, and I needed to retrieve another nut from the parts bin... but what nut??? Size? Metric or SAE? Thread pitch? Uuuugggghhhh. I'd spend more money on a nicer thread gauge before I'd spend more on a ruler. But then again, I also wouldn't pay $46 for one of those either! Unless maybe it came from Snap On. :p
Nice rules - can be useful with conversions. I was about to rant about America discontinuing its switch to metric in the '70s. Time to Keri on with that, haha!
"A combination of both" ... Funny story about that. Just last night I was assembling one of those janky acrylic Raspberry Pi cases for a Pi 4 that I use. I assumed all the fasteners were in metric sizes, so I pulled out my metric nutdriver set. And that worked fine, but at one point I put a metric 5mm nutdriver on one of the brass standoffs, and noticed that the fit seemed awfully sloppy. So just for grins and giggles I broke out the SAE nutdrivers and tried a 3/16'ths driver. Much better fit. WTF (all the other components seemed to be truly and properly metric though)?? Now maybe it *was* a metric fastener and it just wasn't sized to spec perfectly. Or maybe my nutdriver was a little out of spec, or maybe both. But it sure seems like they somehow slipped some 3/16'ths fasteners in with a bunch of metric 4 / 5 / 5.5 mm stuff. Weird. But this is why I always buy any toolset that I by in both metric and SAE sizes if it's something that comes in both. It's also why I'm starting to favor fasteners that *don't* come in two different standards, like Torx.
Imperial will be out of stock in 5 or less years! the entire planet has gone to Metric! I've already switched! I feel that much taller! wait? no weight! any weigh!
$46 for that Starrett. Never going to happen. I recently bought a German Staedtler for $4.95. It seems that you a paying for a name with Starrett or even Mitutoyo (which is less than half the price of the Starrett, BTW). You can't tell me the Starrett will somehow give you better measurements than the Staedtler. They are all marked to a much finer tolerance than the reading/operating error of even the most skilled craftsperson. $46 for a 6" steel rule. Insanity.
Besides that, at least for me, I don't find *that* much use for a plain old ruler. But what I do find myself needing a lot is a thread gauge. How many times have I grabbed, say, a bolt where the corresponding nut was lost or something, and I needed to retrieve another nut from the parts bin... but what nut??? Size? Metric or SAE? Thread pitch? Uuuugggghhhh.
I'd spend more money on a nicer thread gauge before I'd spend more on a ruler. But then again, I also wouldn't pay $46 for one of those either! Unless maybe it came from Snap On. :p
Thank you for the part numbers.
Nice rules - can be useful with conversions. I was about to rant about America discontinuing its switch to metric in the '70s. Time to Keri on with that, haha!
The Starrett helps keep folks employed...
"A combination of both" ...
Funny story about that. Just last night I was assembling one of those janky acrylic Raspberry Pi cases for a Pi 4 that I use. I assumed all the fasteners were in metric sizes, so I pulled out my metric nutdriver set. And that worked fine, but at one point I put a metric 5mm nutdriver on one of the brass standoffs, and noticed that the fit seemed awfully sloppy. So just for grins and giggles I broke out the SAE nutdrivers and tried a 3/16'ths driver. Much better fit. WTF (all the other components seemed to be truly and properly metric though)??
Now maybe it *was* a metric fastener and it just wasn't sized to spec perfectly. Or maybe my nutdriver was a little out of spec, or maybe both. But it sure seems like they somehow slipped some 3/16'ths fasteners in with a bunch of metric 4 / 5 / 5.5 mm stuff. Weird.
But this is why I always buy any toolset that I by in both metric and SAE sizes if it's something that comes in both. It's also why I'm starting to favor fasteners that *don't* come in two different standards, like Torx.
So pleased you called it a rule and not a ruler.
Would that a vicious ruler?
I had a scale that was 1/100 and 0.5mm and then I lost it. It wasn't a big name but it was a regular OTC scale.
I like the bendy ones.
Imperial will be out of stock in 5 or less years! the entire planet has gone to Metric! I've already switched! I feel that much taller! wait? no weight! any weigh!