RougeEric comments on Dimensional lumber tape measure

submitted 1 year ago by mko@slrpnk.net to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

I hope it’s not against the rules here, just saw this woodworking related xkcd that I enjoyed and thought it might be appreciated here:)

[–] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have you hard of our lord and savior, the metric system?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

We have but Canada sells so much construction supplies to the US that we don’t use metric for it.

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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

???

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Even metric is under-sized on dressed timber 42" ~ 10050mm => 90x45m dressed

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[–] AvocadoSandwich@eviltoast.org 5 points 1 year ago*

Yeah, but then we just use the 90x45mm as a measurement...

Also if I remember correctly it's sold as 89x44. 45mm was only used for I-joists

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