Basics on metric speed square

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  • čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
  • Looking into the metric speed square, and all of its features.
    Where to find a metric speed square. jet.com/product/detail/ac3520...
    For the standard speed square. • The basics on a Speed ...
    For cutting common rafters with speed square. • framing rafters with s...
    For cutting Hips with speed square. • Cutting hip rafters wi...
    For cutting valleys with speed square. • Cutting valley rafters...

Komentáře • 175

  • @O0oTanit
    @O0oTanit Před 5 lety +3

    Beginner woodworker here dreaming to build my own house one day, you just opened my mind to a whole new world of perspectives.
    Thank you for your video and for making the use of this great tool understandable to us metric folks. Cheers from France.

  • @flamingskoda
    @flamingskoda Před 4 lety +2

    Thanks for posting this. My Swanson Metric Speed Square arrived today and I am really looking forward to using it. Nice to buy a quality tool. Was £21 here in the 🇬🇧

  • @sarfraz6931
    @sarfraz6931 Před 8 lety +22

    That was really good, if you can do more videos in metric for the rest of the worl, it will be much appreciated

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety +10

      +Sarfraz Munir I try now to do all my videos in both now.

  • @bluzizalright
    @bluzizalright Před 8 lety +9

    Very well explained - thank you for taking the time to make the video.

  • @willemkossen
    @willemkossen Před 8 lety +16

    I think i need to go find one of those. Im in the Netherlands, so everything is metric. (Which is so much easier!). But i never saw one of these tools at our tool shops. Thanks for the thorough explanation!

    • @Bob1053
      @Bob1053 Před 8 lety +1

      +Willem Kossen Hoi Willem - net een van Amezon (USA) gekocht! 25,95 inc. post. Niet in Nederland te krijgen!

    • @DUTCHHUSKY66Treesandforest
      @DUTCHHUSKY66Treesandforest Před 7 lety +1

      Baptist heeft ze. Greetz

    • @deelgaarddevil
      @deelgaarddevil Před 5 lety

      aliexpress voor 3 euro, alle afmetingen kloppen en is goed geijkt

    • @71Splinter
      @71Splinter Před 5 lety

      I imported that metric one from US Amazon going on 10 years ago, but they are common in the uk now if you cant get them where you are.

    • @multibusa
      @multibusa Před 4 lety +2

      Willem Kossen
      I know this is an old post an you’ve most likely sourced a metric square, but for those that may read this and want one of these squares metric or imperial, do yourself a very big favour and get yourself a Swanson roof square. They invented these extremely useful tools, but more importantly make the best quality roofing square I’ve ever seen. Even the aluminium is top speck any other brand is merely a cheap copy. You’ll pay a few more quid for a Swanson but you’ll thank yourself later.
      A quick tip, in the video you will have noticed the etched numerals are the same colour as the square which make them hard to read. I got a can of semi matt paint and sprayed the paint over the square. Once dry I got a small flat of wood with some 180 grit paper and sanded the paint off leaving the numbers black and easily visible.

  • @joaocalhandro
    @joaocalhandro Před 4 lety +13

    Metric. Now we're talking!

  • @886014
    @886014 Před 7 lety +15

    Great job, thanks for putting this up. I have an imperial speed square, but use metric, so will buy a metric version.
    "decimetres", even centimetres, now I know why Americans get so confuses with metric. Down here in Australia we build in millimetres (if it's small), and metres if it's big. Dressmakers use centimetres. No idea who uses decimetres. ;)

    • @crpth1
      @crpth1 Před 7 lety +6

      Pete F - Decimeters, pretty much nobody use it professionally.
      Usually goes like this for the most common stuff.
      Civil construction - meters
      Carpentry - centimeters
      Mechanics/metal - millimeters
      What is nice in the metric system is that it's all the same numbers (value) either it's called meter, decimeter, centimeter or millimeters just move the comma, but the number itself don't change. :-)

    • @Gidjoiner
      @Gidjoiner Před 6 lety +2

      Hi, I've been a joiner/carpenter 33yrs, Here in England we use millimetres for joinery & carpentry, metres when it's a big number as Pete says, professionals never use centimetres, all builders merchants do the same & even quite a lot of the retail stores IKEA, B&Q etc.. imperial on some products, mainly boards like ply, mdf.. although many are becoming metric but still only described in millimetres.

    • @desthompson6721
      @desthompson6721 Před 6 lety +4

      stick to microns, millimetres, metres and kilometres - multiples of 1,000. Metre is the base unit. 0.001 metres is one millimetre. 0.001 millimetres is one micron. 1,000 metres is one kilometre

    • @booboo986
      @booboo986 Před 5 lety +2

      I know we're talking metric lengths, but I love how a 1 litre of *WATER* weighs a nice round 1 kilo. I think Metric is the only thing any good the French have given us, apart from the Citroen DS of course 😁

    • @PvtHaggard
      @PvtHaggard Před 5 lety +2

      Only if the water is 4 degrees centigrade

  • @explorethebush
    @explorethebush Před 8 lety +3

    Metric for the win! Thanks for the video

  • @deounb
    @deounb Před 8 lety

    Yes, the video about the speed square is fantastic and it was when I discovered you channel and once I purchased recently a metric speed square this new video will be very useful. Cheers from a metric country, Brazil!

  • @agod5608
    @agod5608 Před 7 lety +1

    this will greatly improve my metric calculation abilities. thank.

  • @metricstormtrooper
    @metricstormtrooper Před 4 lety

    Thanks for the simple description, makes it understandable.

  • @2adamast
    @2adamast Před 8 lety

    I found the channel thanks to the speed square video. In practice I think the Stanley Adjustable Quick Square has the advantage of setting an angle and avoiding to read and set out the angle at each cut ... until you get from common to hip rafter.

  • @MegaDavyk
    @MegaDavyk Před 7 lety +7

    I would have given my right eye for one of these when I was doing my Carpentry apprenticeship in the 1970's but they were unheard of in New Zealand and Australia too for that matter. When these two countries converted to the Metric system it was decided that the building industry only needed 2 increments, a course one and a fine one so they went with meters and millimeters and it works just fine.
    No centimeters and no decimeters.
    Roof pitches are now described in degrees and that works fine too.

    • @multibusa
      @multibusa Před 4 lety +3

      Truth Seaker
      I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone use the term "decimetres". Centimetre’s never get used in the building trade, in fact used get laughter off site. Kids use centimetres at school. Places that deal with fabrics etc use centimetres. In fact when someone says something is 15 centimetres long I have think for a moment because I too only work in millimetres or metres. Even reasonably large lengths say for instance 1m 100mil, I’d always sat that piece of board needs to be 1100 mil wide. I was taught imperial at school and only learned metrification during my first few years of training and even when first learning the metric system, it was immediately apparent how easy it was to deal with measuring things with a vastly reduced chance of errors, except of course the 100 mil error which catches a few people out. Metric rules only tend to go down to 1/2 a millimetre unless your using a Incra rule which goes down to 1/4 of a millimetre. Often imperial rules show 64ths of an inch, which many people can’t even see let alone use a pencil to mark something out, it has to be a marking knife. Measurements do not need to go any more accurate than a 16th because timber swells and contract with humidity.

    • @DemPilafian
      @DemPilafian Před rokem

      In any kind of professional environment length will be in meters (m) or millimeters (mm). Centimeters (cm) are strictly for casual use, like telling someone your height. My height is 184 (one-eighty-four). I would never say I'm 1,840 (one- thousand-eight-hundred-forty) nor would I say I'm 1.84 (one-point-eight-four). Likewise, it's convenient in everyday use to say something like, _"Let's move the couch 20 cm closer to the window."_ However, cm have absolutely no place in engineering, design, science, research, regulations, etc. Context is important.

    • @MrBallefjongen
      @MrBallefjongen Před rokem

      @@DemPilafian I beg to differ. I think the usage varies around the globe. Here in the Nordic countries for example, millimetres, centimetres, decimetres or metres are all used professionally as well as more commonly in everyday language. Context matters of course, but they all have their usage. For instance, people describe their height by saying "I'm one and eightyfour" but also by saying "I'm 184 centimetres long". Most people would have no difficulty in having a more or less accurate, intuitive understanding of how long a mm, a cm, a dm or a m is.

    • @DemPilafian
      @DemPilafian Před rokem +1

      @@MrBallefjongen Interesting. Decimeters (dm) are so odd. Maybe use of decimeters is common in Nordic countries, but it will probably never be popular worldwide.

    • @MrBallefjongen
      @MrBallefjongen Před rokem +2

      ​@@DemPilafian You are probably right that they won't be popular worldwide. But my point is that it varies around the world. For instance, when I made a 3D-print of a house for the company building the house, they specifically asked me to have all the distances measured in centimetres instead of millimetres, because cm is what their carpenters use.
      And to further explain how we use the different measurements in common parlance when we are trying to roughly estimate a distance - at least here in Sweden - we normally use the smaller scale until we reach the halfway point to the next measurement. Then we shift and say half whatever the next measurement is called. So you could say that something is about two or three centimetres long, but if the distance is longer than that, it is perfectly normal to describe it as being half a decimetre. And if the distance is around 100 mm, we would normally describe it as being about a decimetre. The same method applies to millimetres shifting to half a centimetre, then one, one and a half, two centimetres etc. Also one, two, three and four decimetres then shifting to half a metre etc. We even have a specifically Nordic measurement for 10 kilometres, called mile (Nordic mile), where we do the same shift in everyday speech: 3 kilometres, 4 km then half a (Nordic) mile. We seldom say 10 kilometres.
      To others all this might seem odd, but people here might have difficulties understanding the logic in other ways of describing measurement.
      To each their own I guess. Peace brother.

  • @cockedhat1
    @cockedhat1 Před 8 lety

    Thank you for that video. Very clear and helpful.Makes me want to get the ladders out.

  • @simonk4322
    @simonk4322 Před 2 lety

    Thanks for making a video of translating using the metric system, because that's the system I live in and it's easier for me to understand. Great movie thanks :)

  • @SouthernPioneer1965
    @SouthernPioneer1965 Před 8 lety +3

    Another classic video...It was easier to understand than your first one,simplified I guess...Please do more framing videos if possible...Oh and I used your technic to build the roof of my new tool shed..My tools are dry ,happy and thanking you!

  • @channelsixtysix066
    @channelsixtysix066 Před 3 lety

    This tool has to be one of my favorites. I'm not very good with it, but enjoy how versatile it is - and not a battery in sight. I have collection of them all in Metric, the Swanson, Empire and a Johnny Square. I also have a large plastic Empire.

  • @ozzstars_cars
    @ozzstars_cars Před 8 lety +3

    congrat's on 1 million views. i use my speed square often, its the go to tool in the work truck. good explanation in the video

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +Ozzstar Thanks man I would have never have believed it if I didn't see it.

  • @vikingofengland
    @vikingofengland Před 6 lety

    Really well explained video. Been looking for info on how to use the speed square for rafter cuts and this is the best video by far :)

  • @mac243877
    @mac243877 Před 7 lety +1

    Great tips well explained I've bought one and now feel I can go ahead and try using it many thanks

  • @21stcenturycaveman33
    @21stcenturycaveman33 Před 6 lety

    Well done. Great easy to understand explanations. Thank you

  • @MrG-fg2qw
    @MrG-fg2qw Před 7 lety +29

    6 in 10 is a ratio. Divide 6 by 10 =.6 and the Inverse Tangent of .6 is 30°. That's what Tangent means, the ratio between the opposite and adjacent.
    The adjacent is the wall plate going out horizontally to the centre of the building and the opposite is the height from the end of that line to the ridge board.

    • @multibusa
      @multibusa Před 4 lety +1

      G How
      Fek me, I hope don’t go around sites spouting that technical stuff, otherwise it’ll likely make experienced joiners feel inferior. :)

    • @royceeliseo3695
      @royceeliseo3695 Před 2 lety

      instablaster...

  • @philm9593
    @philm9593 Před 7 lety

    I grew up with the imperial system and over time have developed the knack of flicking back and forth between the two systems. Just hope I can get along with the metric speed square I recently ordered. Thanks for doing the vid, good info.

  • @charlesxix
    @charlesxix Před 5 lety

    Interesting to hear you say Protractor like we do in the UK as opposed to a Pro Tractor. Thanks for the video.

  • @adrianaosirish6065
    @adrianaosirish6065 Před 8 lety

    Great stuff man !!

  • @wheres_bears1378
    @wheres_bears1378 Před rokem

    Possibly the best tool ever invented

  • @Bob1053
    @Bob1053 Před 8 lety

    Bob from Holland here - Great stuff - extremely helpful! Couldn't buy it here, got ik from Amezon.

  • @frankorona1
    @frankorona1 Před 8 lety

    Excellent explanation, thank you very much.

  • @mikewood8988
    @mikewood8988 Před 6 lety

    Thank you for another very informative video. I am not a tradesman, just an enthusiastic DIY'er who happens to work in Timber Trade.
    The speed square is not a common tool here in the UK, but with Globalisation in the tool trade and the increase of timber framing in construction here they are much more readily available.
    As the UK works with a mongrelised system using both metric and imperial measurements, this tool will be one to add to my toolbox.
    Not sure how often I will use it.. But

    • @DemPilafian
      @DemPilafian Před rokem

      I've read that the average height of a Brit is about 5 foot 19 cm.

  • @seanpereira6961
    @seanpereira6961 Před 8 lety

    Awesome, thanks mate!

  • @beyondlimitsproductions1468

    The rippper feature is so simple....but awesome !

  • @alanblyde8502
    @alanblyde8502 Před 2 lety

    Nice work mate, yes I’m a metric person 👌🇦🇺

  • @angelasteininger1870
    @angelasteininger1870 Před rokem

    Thank you. i will use this for our homeschool.

  • @myatix1
    @myatix1 Před 6 lety

    Fantastic thank you for taking the time to do the metric version as well! :)

    • @myatix1
      @myatix1 Před 6 lety

      Another thing... You should add an affiliate link to your videos so if people click the link you get something out of it.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 6 lety +1

      Thanks for the tip, but I do this to help people not for the money.

    • @myatix1
      @myatix1 Před 6 lety +1

      I understand that, but maybe people would like to support you! It doesn’t cost your viewers anything extra but you get some thinking that will help create more videos! It was just a thought! Great job and thanks! :)

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 6 lety

      Alan Hunter I do appreciate it means a lot. I will look into it.

  • @bignedau
    @bignedau Před 8 lety

    congratulations, good job

  • @mr_j83
    @mr_j83 Před 4 lety

    Great video, Thank You!

  • @marcdewilde518
    @marcdewilde518 Před 6 lety +18

    Excellent video. One little remark however : metric is the standard..;) ATB - Marc - Belgium

    • @ahitler5592
      @ahitler5592 Před 4 lety

      Metric system
      1cm = 10 mm
      1m = 100cm
      1km= 1000m
      Imperial
      1 ft = 12 inch
      1 yd = 3 ft
      Random and Dumb numbers

  • @standpicking3759
    @standpicking3759 Před 8 lety

    Great video again
    I have got so much more use out of my speed square since you're others video on it thanks again for taking the time
    You're welding ones are great to I have been practicing doing OK in the flat but up hill not so good

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +stand picking Thanks man. I've got a new video cam I think I can show better arc shots. Would you like me to do a video on welding tips? (Your using stick right?)

  • @jakeshaw6827
    @jakeshaw6827 Před 4 lety

    Those are the kind of speed squares i like you can actually see the numbers engraved in it

  • @tracyturner4961
    @tracyturner4961 Před 4 lety

    Thank you u touched on everything I think, but it answered a few of my questions

  • @ruionwriting
    @ruionwriting Před rokem

    Brilliant and clear.

  • @wrongmark
    @wrongmark Před 4 lety

    Thanks for the video. Makes me laugh how we use a messy mix of metric and imperial in the UK.

  • @jdm0128
    @jdm0128 Před 8 lety

    Great Video. Thanks

  • @franciscobayudang534
    @franciscobayudang534 Před 8 lety

    Thank you for sharing this video,it was a big help for those people who want to learn more

  • @leandroogavadepaulasouza5012

    Thank you very much for the vid. Very helpful!

  • @richardjones3112
    @richardjones3112 Před 2 lety

    Great explanation 👍.

  • @wallacelux
    @wallacelux Před 4 lety

    Great video thanks!!!

  • @azizaviation
    @azizaviation Před 6 lety

    great video and will explained. thanks

  • @jetlaged7549
    @jetlaged7549 Před 8 lety

    appreciae your video thanks man

  • @michaelflynn6178
    @michaelflynn6178 Před 8 lety

    Very helpful THANKS

  • @TheDickPuller
    @TheDickPuller Před 8 lety +4

    Thanks for that CW. It's a wee bit confusing as in the UK we use metric but generally use millimetres & not centimetres(like other European countries), so 1 Metre would be 1000mm. This has always been the case since we started using the metric system on sites in the 70s.

    • @MegaTraianus
      @MegaTraianus Před 5 lety

      Carpenters in Europe also use millimeters. Instead of saying "2.6 cm", they will always say "26 millimeters".

  • @71Splinter
    @71Splinter Před 5 lety

    I have that metric speed square, i have never used the hip-val and common section, as we do our roof on degrees not the ratio way as you guys do , but great video!

  • @AD-mm4ns
    @AD-mm4ns Před 4 lety

    Much appreciated!

  • @vasuhardeo1418
    @vasuhardeo1418 Před 2 lety

    that was cool dude

  • @armwrestling_nerd
    @armwrestling_nerd Před 5 lety +3

    Put your torpedo level and speed square "back to back" when finding the pitch. This way you don't need to guestimate towards a scribed line.

  • @pd1jdw630
    @pd1jdw630 Před 6 lety

    Thx, now I know how to use it.

  • @nicknichols6190
    @nicknichols6190 Před 8 lety

    Hello Really enjoyed your metric speed square info FYI Empire tools which is now a subsidary of Milwaukee tools makes a metric speed square that is the same size as the original fits in your nail / tool bag real nice,Be well Nick PS I think the Empire metric square runs about 12-15 US dollars

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +Nick Nichols Oh man. Thanks for the tip I'll have to get one of those.

  • @isaachrvat
    @isaachrvat Před 8 lety

    1000 thanks!

  • @zensweptandinteresting7529

    I have a question. Concerning the Swanson Metric Speed Square, is the EU202 the same product as the NA202? Or are they somehow different?

  • @ricardonorwood3316
    @ricardonorwood3316 Před 8 lety

    Thanks man

  • @kaseryn
    @kaseryn Před 5 lety

    I hadn't even realised there were metric speed squares. I'm used to either ratio in feet/inches or get the degree with trig but i can't see anyone working to /10 ratio's. Just checked the squares i have here in the UK and although i bought them both here (150mm and 300mm) they're imperial fractions for rafter layouts.

  • @bangkokhomes
    @bangkokhomes Před 8 lety

    Excellent, thank you.
    Mike bkk

  • @interman7715
    @interman7715 Před 4 lety

    One thing I have noticed with some metric speed squares like this they still have a rise to run in inches per twelve like the original imperial speed square and some other metric squares have a centimeters per ten centimeters rise to run ,can get confusing.

  • @keithrichman144
    @keithrichman144 Před 4 lety

    Hi Could you explain me once again about the pitch on this metric square?The Common mesurement is 1decimenter per meter? Is that right?THX a lot.

  • @teamredbrushlessbeastmode1253

    You've Got Most Detail And Easy To Understand Instruction Channel I've Seen... You A Great Teacher... Keep Up The Great Work... You Got A New Subscriber And Many Likes... :-)

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +Team RED Brushless BEAST Mode Thanks man.

  • @lesvosloo5797
    @lesvosloo5797 Před 8 lety

    Thanks.. I am one of the 90%..

  • @spursrulelondon
    @spursrulelondon Před 3 lety

    Thank you.

  • @MrDas187
    @MrDas187 Před 5 lety +2

    Nice work ,funny comment "i didn't know they made a metric speed square" what world do you live in lol

  • @eq2096
    @eq2096 Před 4 lety

    Please do a review of crescent 2 in 1 square next.

  • @1eduardo1970
    @1eduardo1970 Před 5 lety

    Super! I am from Ru 🇷🇺.

  • @user-im8iy9kg5b
    @user-im8iy9kg5b Před 7 lety +1

    Thank you so much for the valuable information. Follow up from Iraq. ..

  • @user-yv9om5nq1d
    @user-yv9om5nq1d Před 8 lety +1

    i translated the manual of metric square onto Russian. it said to use same number of rise for commons and hips\vals.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +аралтан манджиев It may have said that, but it is different. You can try to cut a hip on the common readout, but I don't think it will fit really well. It won't be off much, but it will hurt your fit up. Thanks for the comment.

    • @user-yv9om5nq1d
      @user-yv9om5nq1d Před 8 lety +2

      The same number but on different scales. Suppose you make 5 in 10 roof. You then cut commons using 5 on commons scale and cut hips using 5 on hips scale. Very simple and handy.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +аралтан манджиев Yes your right. Sorry if I confused you.

  • @afi6061
    @afi6061 Před 4 lety

    Only thing I notice is the lack of the diamond that is on the imperial. Is there an equivalent on the metric?

  • @standpicking3759
    @standpicking3759 Před 8 lety

    That would be great if you could yes I am using stick doing vertical welds I am struggling with they look like I was trying to pebble dash a wall
    Thanks again you are a gent

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +stand picking No problem I'll get right on it.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +stand picking What type of welder, and welding rods are you using if you don't mind me asking. So I don't show something you don't have.

  • @parttimevandalz7558
    @parttimevandalz7558 Před 4 lety +1

    Centimetres 'not' decimeters ffs...how you guys in the states think all your fractions and divided sizes are easier than any/everything being easily divisible by ten, i will never know??? But i suppose it's down to what you were first taught, and after all, what is the best 'in practice' for you and your work, is the best system....period! . Although we disagree on specifics, i appreciate the informative tone of your vid. Thanks.

  • @Seagrovelane
    @Seagrovelane Před 8 lety

    You are awesome! I am a science teacher HS wanna bee wood worker, because my wife sees so much to repair on our house! Your video makes thing much easier to understand. I really like the metric system better, but I feel much more comfortable with the old method. I am converting all the time. which do you feel is a better way to start out? I like the smaller old version speed square better.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +Seagrovelane Well I grew up in inch's, so I'm very fond of them, but that is a personally choice. It's harder to use feet, and inch's but I'm used to it, so I like it better. The smaller square I like better the main reason is because it fits in a back pocket.

  • @roontunes
    @roontunes Před 5 lety

    I have a little project on. Building a pitched roof porch that cuts into my existing pitched roof on my workshop. I can understand everything about cutting the rafters etc but I cannot see how to calculate the angles of the valley rafters where they meet the common rafters on my workshop roof.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 5 lety

      roontunes czcams.com/video/4wRnVeQnnnY/video.html this may help.

    • @briangordon1767
      @briangordon1767 Před 5 lety +1

      Find the pitch of your existing roof in degree and set the sole plate of your circleure saw to that angle and that's the cheek cut on your valley rafters

    • @roontunes
      @roontunes Před 5 lety +1

      thnk you @@briangordon1767

  • @norbertobernal4846
    @norbertobernal4846 Před 3 lety

    I will keep using the standard right here in the USA 🇺🇸

  • @chrisgreen6059
    @chrisgreen6059 Před 3 lety

    Just so i understand correctly, on the metric speed square, the common rafters are 10cm of rise per 1meter of run, and the hip/valley rafters are 14cm of rise per 1 meter of run?
    This is extremely helpful, as i use the metric system where I live, and have yet to find clear instructions on how a metric speed square works.
    Thanks for the help

    • @simonk4322
      @simonk4322 Před 2 lety

      Hi, did you find any instruction in the metric system that explains it exactly?

  • @d1want34
    @d1want34 Před 8 lety +2

    "do u know why they called it royale with cheese in paris?"
    Ürmm, because of the metric system?"
    "Check out the big brain on brad!"

  • @johngardiner4843
    @johngardiner4843 Před 6 lety +1

    How can I use a metric framing square to build common rafters with a 1875 mm run and a 600 mm rise

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 6 lety

      www.blocklayer.com/roof/rafter.aspx It will be close to 4/12 pitch.

    • @johngardiner4843
      @johngardiner4843 Před 6 lety +1

      Classic Work what would that convert in metric terms

    • @johngardiner4843
      @johngardiner4843 Před 6 lety +1

      Thank you for your help, could you do the same and run through a metric framing square , to explain how to set rise and run in a metric ,ie 4/12 this is imperial.

    • @Brennan009
      @Brennan009 Před 6 lety +1

      convert 4 inches to mm and 12 inches to mm. 101.6/304.8

    • @johngardiner4843
      @johngardiner4843 Před 6 lety

      Thanks for that , in my head I thought that to be the case but that seemed to easy.

  • @stillebenfilm
    @stillebenfilm Před 5 lety

    Can you make the same video, but for European use with European standards?

  • @BrazilianGaucho
    @BrazilianGaucho Před 6 lety

    I have one, and I live I Brazil. As soon as I heard of the Swanson speed square (by the way, why is it a square if it's a triangle?) I knew I had to have one. So I got a swanson-"ish" metric speed square. Unfortunately, Imperial measures to us are very confusing, especially if some tools work better in one system, and other tools work better in the other. It's about time we unified that.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 6 lety +1

      Mad -Pac Well a triangle is half a square you don't need all of it to make it work. As far as Imperial versus metric they both work. I don't understand people getting all mad say metric is better because it is not. It is different. I work both and most people that work metric don't even use half of the other measuring units. Everybody knows millimeters and meters. But not centimeters and decimeters. If your looking for someone that only use metric you've come to the wrong place.

    • @BrazilianGaucho
      @BrazilianGaucho Před 6 lety

      Well, personally I would say metric is better because you just multiply or divide things by 10 and you get precise results. But then I'm biased because I've used metric all my life. The point is you should stick to one system. Having some tools in metric and some in Imperial is a recipe for future headaches. Imperial is rarely used nowadays, except for the US and one or two other countries, but since the US is a technological and industrial power I often find some interesting tool (like the one in this video) and then I realize, oh crap, inches! We also have issues with drills and it's a nuisance. We always get a weird broken number for the diameter like 4,76 mm or something, and measures lower than one millimeter are only used if you're working with extreme precision in tiny dimensions (and then we enter the universe of nanometers and micrometers). As for which units are used, in Latin America we use meters, centimeters and millimeters. I find decimeters an oddity, since people would much rather refer to a 30cm ruler or a "1 meter 82" tall man. Anyway, I didn't come here for the metric system, evidently, but to learn about the tool, which sparked my curiosity.
      Nice video. Keep the good work.

    • @gammondog
      @gammondog Před 6 lety

      Because the angle is ninety degrees we call it a "square angle". Hence "speed square"!

  • @reynaldorodriguez7469
    @reynaldorodriguez7469 Před 6 lety

    Where can I buy this product/tool? Here in the Philippines, this tool is not being use and popular. Our carpenters do not use this. I want to own one because I am sure this is very helpful technically.

  • @chrisc6504
    @chrisc6504 Před 7 lety

    good video ,though confused me when you used centimetres use mm in uk so 5cm so we say 50mm just to cause more confusion lol thanks anyway

    • @tishbrett
      @tishbrett Před 3 lety

      We use mm not cm in au aswell much easier

  • @tonybrown7167
    @tonybrown7167 Před 2 lety

    Tell me how would you find out the pitch of the roof with the roof already on. 1 Love

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 2 lety +1

      You can climb up to your eave pull your square on the (shingles or tin) pivot and place a short level on the back of your square when the level is level look at the slot where the common is and see what number it lines up with on the roof. most common are 3/12--4/12--6/12 hope that helps.

    • @tonybrown7167
      @tonybrown7167 Před 2 lety

      @@EEJester1586 Thank you for explaining it to me. You wouldn’t believe how many times I messed up that cut again thank you. 1 Love

  • @standpicking3759
    @standpicking3759 Před 8 lety

    I work for a maintenance company mostly welding old gates and fences
    Using a 220v DC 200amp small welder. Mostly set at 80 to 110 amps with
    2.5mm Premium 6013 rods that's what the job supply
    Thanks really looking forward to your video

  • @henkdillema5940
    @henkdillema5940 Před 6 lety

    why does this one come without the diamond cut

  • @CC-jy4gr
    @CC-jy4gr Před 6 lety

    the Internets sexiest hands

  • @ellambydefault9715
    @ellambydefault9715 Před 3 lety

    Is it Swanson NA202 ?

  • @cthulpiss
    @cthulpiss Před 5 lety

    What's that watch model, if you don't me asking?

  • @mrfoltz
    @mrfoltz Před 5 lety

    I'm not sure why they don't use mm and cm instead of decimetres?

  • @alejandrotejeda3695
    @alejandrotejeda3695 Před 8 lety

    Can't you put the level over the speed square instead of drawing a line?

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      +Alejandro Tejeda You can. There are a lot of ways of doing it that was just the way I like the most.

  • @kenhughes
    @kenhughes Před 4 lety

    Hahaha some of us in the metric world still work in feet and inches,actually I use both.

  • @f.demascio1857
    @f.demascio1857 Před 8 lety

    Great video. I think you meant to call it "Basics," though.

    • @EEJester1586
      @EEJester1586  Před 8 lety

      Oh dang thanks for telling me I sure didn't notice haha.

    • @f.demascio1857
      @f.demascio1857 Před 8 lety

      +Classic Work No worries. Keep the videos coming.

  • @tishbrett
    @tishbrett Před 3 lety

    I laughed when he said metric and standard lol to most of the world metric is standard and imp is the odd one out 🤔😂

  • @ricdonato4328
    @ricdonato4328 Před 2 lety

    Ah-ha very good, being as imperial run is 12" I have often wonder what length is used for the metric run; my guess was one meter. Now I know for metric it is one decimeter, a.k.a.10 cm.
    FYI, you correctly use the term one decimeter, yet for some imperial folks it may confuse them. A meter length is 100 cm, one-tenth of 100 cm is 10 cm thus one decimeter.
    On another unrelated note, knowing "deci" means one-tenth, when one says "oh the area was decimated", that statement would indicate one-ten of the area not the entire area so what happened to the other 90 percent of the area. Rather than use decimated a better word could be obliterated and the like. Also, decimated was used for the killing of one in every ten of a group as in soldiers as a punishment of the whole group.

  • @hansdegroot8549
    @hansdegroot8549 Před 7 lety +1

    Thanks for sharing your knowledge. This video was very instructive.
    What is the reason for the metric speed square so much bigger than the imperial one?
    That's not very practical.
    I wonder if there are already some addresses in Continental Europe, where the metric speed square can be bought?
    Preferably already the same dimension as the classic imperial one.

    • @crpth1
      @crpth1 Před 7 lety

      +Hans de Groot - I got my from ebay. Made in China I presume. It's a 7"/180mm if I recall correctly. I bet there are other sizes available. :-)

  • @EDDIEGARAGE
    @EDDIEGARAGE Před 6 lety

    Where to find a metric speed square. come to Australia

  • @sttm1283
    @sttm1283 Před 5 lety

    4:49 to us swedes its not confusing. what is really confusing to us is the imperial system. generally we only deal with mm(millimeter) dm(decimeter) and meter when we build stuff. but you guys use a whole lot more. 1 inch is about 25mm wich you have to break up into like 25 different things. for example. 1mm is roughly 0,0393701 inches. thats really fucked up if u ask me.