WHAT KIND OF MEASURING TOOLS?

[zzmikeg]

On 9/27/2019 at 5:27 AM, Tugadude said:

Yes, happy to help.  They are great for centering snaps on things and pretty much any time you need to keep an even margin on both sides of a component.

I'll never get back all the time I spent on doing what my new centering ruler effortlessly does for me, but at least now I have one.  Thanks for the great suggestion. I love this thing.  Thick, clear, one beveled edge, one metal edge.

I get so much help from this site that I try to contribute whenever I can.  Below are some pics in case someone finds them helpful. Pics often make all the difference.
(Amazon, $7)

 

[Tugadude]

Awesome, so glad it helped!

[battlemunky]

I picked up a centering ruler too, all because of this thread. I still haven't been sold on it but I haven't tried to find the center of anything yet either. It was 6 bucks at Hobby Lobby.

[toxo]

For centering those rulers look good. I just measure roughly and set my wing dividers to half that and mark from each side. Quicker to do than to write.

As wizard mentioned sometimes you need a straight line for the strap cutter. I was lucky and found a galvanised wide angle iron that does that job but before I found that I used a "ping" line. Which is just a piece of string with chalk dust on it. Just pull it taut, pull up in the middle and let go. nice straight line as long as you want it. Here's the proper tool for the job but any piece of string will do.