Tape Measure Tricks

**BobSch** · 12-23-2009, 07:06 AM

Pretty impressive.

All I can do with a tape is grab the wrong one half way through a project. It wasn't until I joined this board that I found out not all tapes, rulers, etc. read the same.

Oh, and I'm good at stepping on them and putting a kink in the blade, too.

**crokett** · 12-23-2009, 07:09 AM

That's pretty funny. Several years ago I worked in a call center. One day I found a rubber band that was about 3' long that was used for packaging. I spent a lot of time in calls and had lots of time to practice. I got good enough with it that I could open the CD drive on my computer, turn off computers and monitors, etc all by zapping them with the rubber band from 4-5 feet away.

**Uncle Cracker** · 12-23-2009, 07:19 AM

Entertaining... I just wonder on whose payroll he was while developing these "skills". Not mine, that's for sure.

**germdoc** · 12-23-2009, 07:48 AM

I have some great job-related skills too!

For instance, I can diagnose herpes at 20 yards! I can put on an Unna boot in 2 minutes! I can lance and dress a boil in 5 seconds!

Maybe you guys really didn't want to hear that...

**Richard in Smithville** · 12-23-2009, 07:50 AM

But does he measure twice?

**atgcpaul** · 12-23-2009, 08:15 AM

Originally posted by germdoc

I have some great job-related skills too!

For instance, I can diagnose herpes at 20 yards!

I hope you're talking about the kind you get on your mouth or the chicken pox
variety.

**crokett** · 12-23-2009, 08:30 AM

I'm also wondering how he gets his tape measure to do that. Of course I had to try it with one of mine and I couldn't throw it out very far before it started to retract.

**LCHIEN** · 12-23-2009, 08:33 AM

Originally posted by crokett

I'm also wondering how he gets his tape measure to do that. Of course I had to try it with one of mine and I couldn't throw it out very far before it started to retract.

i don't think mine'll go out like that. Maybe he reversed the spring??? It'll shoot out but you gotta push it back in??? I don't think its a stock tape measure.

**TB Roye** · 12-23-2009, 09:09 AM

I can cut my finger on mine when it retracks. I can get the end caught in someplaces where it almost impossible to get loose with taking some thing apart.

Tom

**thestinker** · 12-23-2009, 03:48 PM

Pretty neat. Reminds me of a video I saw with this guy who could bounce a quarter into a shot glass from crazy distances and with the glass hidden behind things.

**gsmittle** · 12-23-2009, 04:49 PM

Originally posted by germdoc

I have some great job-related skills too!

For instance, I can diagnose herpes at 20 yards! I can put on an Unna boot in 2 minutes! I can lance and dress a boil in 5 seconds!

Maybe you guys really didn't want to hear that...

Depends on where the boil is�

g.

**herb fellows** · 12-23-2009, 10:11 PM

Originally posted by germdoc

I have some great job-related skills too!

For instance, I can diagnose herpes at 20 yards! I can put on an Unna boot in 2 minutes! I can lance and dress a boil in 5 seconds!

Maybe you guys really didn't want to hear that...

'Maybe"? Do you have any doubt?

**herb fellows** · 12-23-2009, 10:13 PM

Originally posted by LCHIEN

i don't think mine'll go out like that. Maybe he reversed the spring??? It'll shoot out but you gotta push it back in??? I don't think its a stock tape measure.

AHA! a Modified tape measure! DISQUALIFIED!

**Wood_workur** · 12-24-2009, 08:06 AM

Originally posted by TB Roye

I can cut my finger on mine when it retracks. I can get the end caught in someplaces where it almost impossible to get loose with taking some thing apart.

Tom

I guess this makes two people.

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