Binding placement is important?

[Horton]

I saw this image on Facebook today and almost pooped myself.

 

[bishop8950]

Yikes. I always use the same tape for boot placement.

[9400]

Quality control took the day off.

[B_S]

That's why we use a metal scale and not a tape.

[Joeprunc]

Burn an inch or 10....you don't have to worry about the slop in the tip. Usually the slop in the tip is for measuring (push vs pull)

[skihacker]

My wife owns a small machine shop, you would never believe all the tape measure stories

[PatM]

ah who needs those 3/8s anyway

[BMG73]

That reminds me of a friend who I was helping build a deck. His boards were always short. Finally looked at his tape and it was in 10ths. That one though >:)

[jhughes]

It did blow my mind the first time I learned that the tip of the tape measure is supposed to actually be loose. It moves to compensate for an inside measurement vs. an abutted measurement, approximately the thickness of the metal itself.

[ReallyGottaSki]

My bud witnessed a crew that was not good at math, so grownaz men would shout measurements like.... "Eighty five and three littles" would be 85 3/8...

Then "sixty seven and five little littles" would be 67 5/16....

Yeah...

[pregom]

@BMG73 measuring in tenths is the first step towards metric system adoption!

 

Do you really want to keep having 3 littles and 5 little littles?? :smile:

[ScottScott]

That play does wear down and increase over time, and the end gets a little bent. Time to throw it out and get a new one. If you need to be exact measure from 1" and subtract 1.

[ski6jones]

Remember the cars of the 80s @pregom ? Imperimetric? Some bolts imperial and some bolts metric. Half steps only confuse everyone. Go metric or don't, half steps do nothing.

[ScottScott]

Since metric came up.....JUST DO IT....COLD TURKEY!!!! Its one of my biggest pet peaves.

[Onside135]

I think it was actually @Horton who may have said it best... “the metric system is for countries who haven’t put a man on the moon.”

[BraceMaker]

@Onside135 Apollo computers did all the math in metric and converted it to output imperial for gauge outputs twas metric all along.

[Zman]

When I was in grade school, they said we were on a 20 year program to go metric. That was the 1960s. Do it already! Everyone already has SAE and Metric tools. And, yes, tens are much easier than "littles" and "little littles".

 

[Zman]

@Gloersen You have a point there. But, I could easily get there with fins too. I'm not much of a tweaker. My digital caliper has metric units as well. :D

[DanE]

That's what we get outsourcing all production to China.

This makes me wonder though about the 30" factory front boot on a 67" Omega?

[ScottScott]

Stock settings of a D3 67" ION.

6.94" 2.47" .755"

or

176mm 62.7mm 19.2mm

 

Set your caliper to metric and go....no issue

[pregom]

I do remember that @ski6jones. I came to the US as a grad student in the mid 80s and I had no idea that the metric system was not used over here. I remember watching the first Olympic games full of excitement for the long jump, high jump and then getting all frustrated when I saw the official boards displaying measures in meters and centimeters, but the announcers and the overlays were converting everything in feet and inches. What the heck are those???, I was thinking... oh, well. A few years later, I kind of know how to convert back and forth, but the fractions, the littles and little littles are still mind boggling!