Has anyone seen them about or know where to get them?
Otherwise the next step will be ordering from the US.
I'm looking for a supplier of Imperial measuring tapes, QTY 10+, not the dual mm/inch jobbies you can find in the UK/IRL as standard.
Aliexpress?
I'll have a look later, site is blocked from work. Delivery times could be a pain as well.
Ticino Tom will be able to help you out. He’s got 27 of them scattered about his rustico and three garages. He can’t tell you where he got them from as it was word of mouth from a local contact.
I think you'll need a US supplier. It's been dual mm/inch in the UK for yonks, and you'll not find inches closer than the UK.
First of all: Sounds like a party!
Second: I dont think you will find non-dual ones in Europe.
Do you need the sturdier 3/5/10 yard metal type tape, or would a tailor’s tape suffice?
I’ve ordered tailor’s tape - coated fabric, 60 inches long, from Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Measure-2-P…zcF9hdGY&psc=1
Likely also from Amazon Germany, but perhaps from a third party supplier.
(Yeah, I’m lazy - my ‘muscle memory’ is stuck in the measurement used when I first learned to sew…)
A tailor’s tape is not rigid. Some come in a plastic housing that has a stop and retracts, though.
If you need the larger retractable metal tape, ordering from the US or Asia is probably your best bet.
You could probably get one in the U.K. - if you wait a few years and the Tories are still in power.
Exporting stuff to US market? Congrats
Ali now does 15-day delivery on most items (at no extra cost).
Works most of the time, and if not received in 15 days, you get a full refund (which means you can get stuff for free quite often when it's delayed at Swiss customs)
It's looking as though that is the simpler option, I was hoping for the additional clarity of only having inches readable from both edges of the tape, but in the end it should be fine.
Thanks, I'll be needing both longer and sturdier. I'll need to rivet a fitting to the end to fit to a certain datum point.
Some industries still use inches for certain standard spacings. With a variable Position installations, it would be handy to give whole inch measurements instead of mm, 219" looks nicer than 5562.6mm.
I'm in the UK next week, so I don't think I can wait for the Tories.... I'll just grab a bunch of inch/cm tapes.
4.95 on Galaxus: https://www.galaxus.ch/de/s2/product…cerie-17710314
(red the text, don’t look at the picture only)
I'll be needing about 5 yards/meters. It's a little on the short side.
Thats a dual one. I think what Ato is trying is to make sure his colleagues cant mess up by using the wrong side… NASA style: https://www.simscale.com/blog/nasa-m…rbiter-metric/
You can buy retractable tailor’s tape measures which only have inches printed on one side of them and have a rivet in one end. They’re softer than the regular builder’s metallic tapes though.
This kind of thing