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2. L. S. Starrett Company - Wikipedia

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   This plant also makes saws and measuring equipment. In 1986, Starrett took over the Evans Rule Company, the world's largest tape measure manufacturer, and in 1990 the company bought Sigma Optical, a British manufacturer of optical profile projectors. In 1998, Starrett expanded into China, opening a new plant in Suzhou. [8]

3. Tape measure - Wikipedia

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   Tape measures are often designed for specific uses or trades. Tapes may have different scales, be made of different materials, and be of different lengths depending on the intended use. Tape measures used in tailoring are called "sewing tape". Originally made from flexible cloth or plastic, fiberglass is now the preferred material due to its ...

4. Combination square - Wikipedia

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   A combination square is a multi-purpose measuring and marking tool used in metalworking, woodworking, and stonemasonry. It is composed of a rule and one or more interchangeable heads that can be attached to the rule. [1] [2] Other names for the tool include adjustable square, combo square, and sliding square.

5. Wood (magazine) - Wikipedia

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   Wood was founded in 1984 by Larry Clayton; it follows the principle of Better Homes and Gardens ' s test kitchen, where recipes published in the magazine have been tested. . Every project in the magazine has been built in Wood's woodworking shop; every woodworking technique published has been tried and accomplished by the editors; and every tool or product discussed has been shop-tested and ...

6. Chemistry of pressure-sensitive adhesives - Wikipedia

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   The wear of an adhesive tape as it slides across a substrate can be estimated using Archard's Law of Adhesive Wear, where and are the hardness and wear coefficients of the adhesive tape, is the distance the adhesive is dragged across the substrate surface, is the total normal load acting on the adhesive tape, and is the volume of the adhesive ...

7. Tape correction (surveying) - Wikipedia

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   For common tape measurements, the tape used is a steel tape with coefficient of thermal expansion C equal to 0.000,011,6 units per unit length per degree Celsius change. This means that the tape changes length by 1.16 mm per 10 m tape per 10 °C change from the standard temperature of the tape.