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Do any of you have an ideas where I might have left my 600mm steel rule. It is not in its place. I remember using it to get a line across chair rails and that I put it down somewhere stupidly I recall telling myself not to leave it there. That was January and now not a clue! I have looked most places and resigned to it will turn up sometime.
 
Obviously you've looked in the last place you'd look. You're going to have to work backwards from there, so where's the second last place you'd look?
 
Resting vertically against the edge of your tool well out of sight?
I lost a 12” steel rule once, found it a week later clearing out sawdust from under the blade on a chop saw, unfortunately the teeth of the saw had made a few marks along it.
Infuriating isn’t it, it should be right there!
 
Feb 1st you put up a photo of the WIP on the chairs... I've looked at that but can't see the rule... thought it may have been in one of your photos and give a clue as to last known/seen/recorded place... sadly not.

I'd be thinking/looking under the benches - even if already looked there. If that's not helping then I'd go back to that photo and try to work back (or forwards?) from there to try and retrace the steps to get to that - or what you did after... hopefully the photos may just jog the memory 🙏

It's damned annoying when these *lost* bits of kit go walkabout... Even with 5 tape measures in the 'shop there are a few times I loose track of where I last put one... look for another (again and again - happens a few times... even though a small area) and find the 1st one at the end of the day IF I get to clear up before SWMBO is calling for tea/evening meal...
 
You've got a chronic case of the 'gremlins' I'm afeard. No cure except to extract the CC from it's hiding place (unless that's also lost:ROFLMAO:) and hit 'Order Now' on the keypad - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
You've got a chronic case of the 'gremlins' I'm afeard. No cure except to extract the CC from it's hiding place (unless that's also lost:ROFLMAO:) and hit 'Order Now' on the keypad - Rob
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Order multiple of... Just for future instances 😎 (says he with 6 tape measures - possibly more than 🤷🤣)
 
This evening spend ten minutes cleaning up and looking for the rule chuntering about being a forgetful old git.
You won’t find the rule.
Go to bed, about 2am you will wake with a start, remembering exactly where it is. Write this down as you will forget by then morning.
If that fails then you need to adopt Robs foolproof method of ordering a replacement.
 
Yesterday I spent the best part of 3 hours searching for a reel of LED lighting. I knew I had it, it just wasn't where I expected to find it (in the kitchen, with the aluminium track in which it sits). I searched my workshop, the barn, the little barn. Nowhere.

I gave up in the end and went up to my office to print off a copy of a song for SWMBO. I removed a pack of A4 off my printer so I could lift the scanner, and what was staring me in the face? A brand new complete reel of LED lighting. I have no idea why I would even take it up to my office, let alone then hide it under a pack of A4.

I now have under-cabinet lighting along the RH side of my kitchen.

So have you checked on top of your printer?

S
 
Dr.Al said:
It's underneath the thingamabob, just to the left of the whatchamacallit and behind the oojamaflip.

You can't miss it if you look there.
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I am sure you are spot on Al but where the heck is the thingamabob.
 
Steve Maskery said:
Yesterday I spent the best part of 3 hours searching for a reel of LED lighting. I knew I had it, it just wasn't where I expected to find it (in the kitchen, with the aluminium track in which it sits). I searched my workshop, the barn, the little barn. Nowhere.

I gave up in the end and went up to my office to print off a copy of a song for SWMBO. I removed a pack of A4 off my printer so I could lift the scanner, and what was staring me in the face? A brand new complete reel of LED lighting. I have no idea why I would even take it up to my office, let alone then hide it under a pack of A4.

I now have under-cabinet lighting along the RH side of my kitchen.

So have you checked on top of your printer?

S
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Already looked Steve.
 
Cabinetman said:
Resting vertically against the edge of your tool well out of sight?
I lost a 12” steel rule once, found it a week later clearing out sawdust from under the blade on a chop saw, unfortunately the teeth of the saw had made a few marks along it.
Infuriating isn’t it, it should be right there!
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Tried there. No.
 
Oh that will of slipped into a hole in the space time continuum 😲
All you need to do is find the other end of the hole, usually, buying another one will allow it to fall out in an obvious place. 😎
 
My wife has lost her fave Japanese trowel with the long handle. She made me buy her a new one. :rolleyes:. She pronounced it "not as good".

Your steel rule is in the the drawer by your bench. I have second sight.
 
Just accept that you are not going to find it until you have bought another one. Then it will be in the most obvious place you have searched many times.
I have worked on that principal for years and it has saved me an enormous amount of time. The only downside is that next time you can't find it you will be unable to find either of them so need to buy a third.
Did someone mention 6 tape measures? I have far more than that but the exact number remains one of the mysteries of the universe as I can't find any of them at the moment. I tell a lie as I can find my three 100ft measures but as I don't need one of those at the moment they don't count. I think I need a quantum physicist to help me determine where else they are all existing along with all my stanley knives and the pencil I put down a second ago.
 
I forgot the 100ft measure... 🤔... 6 *at least*... haven't counted the *rulers*...

I can confirm that @HappyHacker is correct; hence my 6 (possibly more 🤔) tape measures and why i did end up with 4 off 4" bolster chisels at one stage... As to pencils... I've at least 3 containers - and came across my father's oil paints and *pencils* I'd stored away in the back area (around 1994? He died in June '92). BUT... I can never find the one I started with...
 
PAC1 said:
You lot are leading me astray. I looked at…https://www.axminstertools.com/shinwa-13021-stainless-steel-rule-600mm-108998
Still resisting buying though.
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Don't buy that one, this one's much better and cheaper too: https://www.axminstertools.com/axminster-precision-stainless-steel-metric-rule-600mm-104520

The Shinwa one has millimetres on the top edge and half millimetres on the bottom edge (if you have the 0 end on the left). On the back there's a frankly useless table of data. What if you want to measure left-to-right with half millimetres on the top edge? You can't.

The Axminster one (assuming they haven't changed the design since I bought mine) has one side with millimetres on the top and half-millimetres on the bottom and the other side with half-millimetres on top and millimetres on the bottom. That gives you the option to use it however you want.

I prefer the layout of the Facom DELA rules (which have millimetres on both edges on one side and half-millimetres on both edges on the other side) but the Axminster is a close second in terms of design (I don't know whether you can get 600 mm rules with the proper DELA layout).

P.S. This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine (how difficult it is to buy a well-designed steel rule). There's even a bit of a rant about it (with some photos showing the good and bad designs) on my website: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/metalwork/miscellaneous/measuringtools
 
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Cabinetman said:
Totally agree with you @Dr.Al the best one I had had metric and imperial on one side and reversed on the other, you could always manage to line up an easily read measurement, it was Wicks, but of course they stopped making them.
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All the ones I have with metric and imperial on just get used as spacers/shims and such like :)
 
HappyHacker said:
Have a look at https://www.thetapestore.co.uk they have a wide variety of steel rules as well as lots of other measuring stuff. I speak as a satisfied customer due to my inability to find anything.
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They're one of the only places I know of where you can get these (that's the 3 metre one, the 2 metre one is here) for a moderately sensible price. Unfortunately, their selection of steel rules is pretty awful and none of them meet what I would consider the basic requirements (the ability to use millimetres or half millimetres on either top or bottom edge).
 
I have one , possibly two :(, of their of their Advent rules with metric one side and imperial the other. The metric side is mm along the top and 1/2 mm along the bottom. I must admit that despite my glasses I cannot read a ruler to 1/2 mm or 1/32 inch.

While doing a favour for a metricated friend last week I needed to set the table saw using metric and could not find either of the rules with metric on one side :( I'll probably find them both today whilst looking for something else.
 
Windows said:
Can I get a @Dr.Al critique on these metric-only combination squares’ rulers please:

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Everyone else please chip in your comments too.
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The Presch one looks like a good layout to me and would be the one I would go for. If you want to measure on the mitre side (which I'd imagine is a fairly rare occurrence), you would flip the rule over and it would work perfectly.

With the Workpro one, if you flip the rule over it looks exactly the same as it did before so there's no way to measure from the tip on the outside edge (top-right of your second photo of the Workpro one).

Pete Maddex said:
I like the Fisher rules, nice satin finish easy to mark your sizes.

www.mytoolshed.co.uk

Fisher Satin Chrome Engineers Steel Rule | Fisher Rulers

Buy Fisher Satin Chrome Engineers Steel Rule and other Fisher Fisher Rulers at Tooled-Up.com. Fast Delivery.
www.mytoolshed.co.uk www.mytoolshed.co.uk
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I'm glad you like them and if they work for you then great. That's one of the marking layouts that I avoid and find quite frustrating to use.
 
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