eTAPE16 Digital Measuring Tape - Very Nice - LIVE Stream 2-01-2022 Ask the Builder

Good afternoon. I am Tim Carter. This is Ask the Builder, streaming live. It's great to cheer

And it's going to be a short live stream. I want to let you know right away. I've got to get out of here

I'm going to sign off at 425 and I have to have to be someplace at 5 o'clock. So I talk

going to take me a while to get there. That's the problem here in New Hampshire where I live. You can't, I mean, the shortest distance I can travel to get anywhere, to get, to buy anything

I'm serious, to buy a flipping candy bar. The shortest distance, shortest time would be

I don't know, 18 minutes. Isn't that crazy? All right, here we go

here we go, uh, eight-bit vinyl. We're going to talk about tape measures in just a second. You're

feeling about the tape measure so they have the big stud hooks on the ends, Milwaukee made one a few years

ago but now discontinued I don know why Um yeah I I got so many I must have I got must I got a giant toolcase you know the type that auto mechanics use down in my garage

And one of the really big drawers, it's just completely filled with tape measures, all different types

Some of them are, one of them is one that's probably 30 years old that I used when I was building

But I've got a lot of tape measures. So let's talk about tape measures right now. So today's live stream just, you know, is brought to you by this really interesting company

They've been around a while, e-tape. This is not necessarily a new tape measure, but they just reached out to me

And I want to show you a couple of them. You know, they've got a little bit different displays

It's the same company, but there's different models. But I want to tell you a story about this

So here's, just so you get excited about it. So here's the tape measure. You think, okay, Tim, big deal

Yeah, yeah, yeah, here's the tape, big deal, blah, blah, blah. Well, watch what happens

You know, I know that lit up. So when you pull this out, it turns on and there's a display, and I know it can be kind of hard to read, but I'm probably going it upside down

But it reading the exact distance that the tape has pulled out And what interesting about this it really funny I been building for so long that I

I just assume that everyone knows how to read a tape measure

And that's not the case. In fact, when we were building a buddy of mine that was a fellow carpenter

we used to play a game where we would take the fractions and make them bigger and

bigger. You know, in other words, in other words, if you had to cut a piece of lumber four

and an eighth inches long, you know, he'd be up on a ladder and say, I need something that's

I need something that's four and eight 64th, you know, so you'd have to do that math, you know

because it was just, we had a lot of fun with it. Or he'd say, I need a four and 16, 128s

you know, things like that, just six, you know, four and 32, 256th, you know, I mean

crazy. That's the kind of fun we would have. Well, some, you know, we could do it, but most people

they look at those little numbers, the little lines on the tape measures, and they freak out

Well guess what This you don have to worry about it anymore This does it for you I mean look let me get it out here This one I think has a little bit clear clear because it not blue So look at that So you know four and nine I mean

it tells you. All right. And here's what's cool. So it has all types of memories. So I can

memorize that. I can push this button right here and memorize that, that dimension if I have to

It's got two memories. One of the really cool things about this tape measure

sometimes, it's not all that often, but you have to divide that in two

You would go for whatever reason, because you want to split a piece of plywood or whatever

So remember, it's reading 4 and 9.16th right now. So if I push this button right here, watch what happens

If I push and hold it. Let me see here. There we go

So it does the math. And so what it is, it's split it in half, two and a quarter

So very interesting tape measure. It's really interesting. And here's the true story

When I got these tape measures about two weeks ago, the company reached out to me maybe three weeks ago

asked me if I'd be interested. I said, sure, send a couple of them along

Let me look at them. They..