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I'm a measurement nerd. I love to measure things (weather characteristics, motor/car characteristics, etc....).

A while back I happened upon a measuring tape on Amazon that had both metric and SAE scales and thought, "that's really cool. I want one!" So I did some searches to see what was available (I like Lufkin tape measures). In my searches, I saw that there are Starrett tape measures and had another "that's cool. I want one," moment. I was so excited to find that Amazon had Starrett English/Metric tape measures so I got one.



It's a very nice little tape measure. What I've discovered is that it's really nice and easy to use the metric scale, but that since it's only good one one side of the tape measure that I am going to need to get an all metric (or maybe a few) tape measure.

I learned metric in school, and have remembered all of the prefixes and conversions all of this time (good memory for numbers). But it's so much easier to remember centimeters.millimeters than inches fractional inches.