can you read a tape measure?

[Wood_workur]

how long is the lug on the left, from center to center of the posts, according to the tape measure:


I'll go in 1/32" increments from 2 and 1/8" to 2 3/8"

[cabinetman]

When all the votes are in we'll just average out the dimension and round it off to the nearest inch.
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[Salty]

As the image is blurred on the far left and it is viewed at an angle, it is impossible to be sure exactly where the barrel of the handle is in relation to the tape.
The question is also somewhat ambiguous.
The first part of the question is "how long is the lug on the left," and that would invite a guess of about 1/4". But the tape is not aligned with the 'lug', or what I would call a barrel. Is 'lug' another term used for handle?
Then the phrase "from center to center of the posts," would lend itself to the reference of the 'posts' where the handle screws enter the handle. And that leads back to my first comment.

[cabinetman]

As the image is blurred on the far left and it is viewed at an angle, it is impossible to be sure exactly where the barrel of the handle is in relation to the tape.

I was gonna use that excuse, but I realized that most everything I look at is slightly blurred.
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[Wood_workur]

well, all but one person is wrong, including me (on the ACTUAL length, not the length it appears, that is still a mystery). Its actually 2 and 3/16" actual, but what it is according to this tape measure is a mystery. This was from another forum (a drumming forum) where the poster wanted to change lugs, but the new ones wouldn't fit.

Long story short I got not a heated argument that the lug wasn't 2 and 3/16" then an accurate pic was posted. Fine, I agreed that the other guy was right (I mean what ruler marked with 64ths is off by more than 1/64" per 10 feet, right?), but I came to the intelligent conclusion that this tape measure was stretched 1/16" over the length of the lug because the other lug appears 1/16" longer in this pic, so that lavs 1/16" left unaccounted for in the other lug.

Interesting how quality of your measuring tools affects how well stuff you purchase works, huh? Good reason to make sure you reference all of your new measuring tools off an object of known length before you put them to use measuring stuff.

[backpacker85]

Count me among the "foggy-eyed", but it still looks to me like 2-3/8", assuming it runs from 2-13/16 to 5-3/16.......but that's why I use a steel rule not a tape for measurements like this

[iceman61]

The one on the left looks like 2 5/16" to me. cl~cl (but it is at an angle)

The one on the right looks like 2 3/16" to me. cl~cl

[footprintsinconc]

which one are you asking about, the right or the left one?

left: 2 5/16" CL to CL
right: 2 3/16 CL to CL

[shoottx]

This is one of those " I walked to and from school uphill bothways in the snow and cold". Way back in high school, I was helping my dad put up sheet rock in a house we were remodeling. He started to climb all over me for not being able to read a ruler, because everything I cut was short and some times real short. In an effort to not make a mistake, I started applying some windage to get closer. Nothing worked and Dad, well let's say, was using some colorful language. He was so mad he climbed down from the ladder grabed my folding ruler, measured the cut and went back up the ladder. Then there was quiet! His cut was off almost 1/4 of an inch.

Turns out, he bought a cheap folding ruler on sale some place for 25% off. It was only 1/4 inch off in 6 feet.

So yes the quality of the measuring instrument is important!

[Uncle Cracker]

I have never heard of a steel tape measure being stretched...

[crokett]

left: 2 5/16" CL to CL
right: 2 3/16 CL to CL

What he said.

[Tom Slick]

you clearly stated to measure the one on the left. I completely ignored that, measured the one on the right and put that in as my vote.

the one of the left is 2-5/16 as far as I can tell from the photo.

There is a simple trick to measuring stuff like that, I'll share it if anyone is interested.

[gerti]

Assuming that the round thingies have the same diameter, one could take a more precise reading on the right edge of each of the round thingies. And that looks like 2 1/4 to me...

[Wood_workur]

There is a simple trick to measuring stuff like that, I'll share it if anyone is interested.

measure left to left or right to right? Thats what I do.

[Tom Slick]

measure left to left or right to right? Thats what I do.

That's my trick,with the assumption the ID and OD are on the same centerline.