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TIP - Measuring the inside of a box

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Cliff Dawson, a fellow Pietenpol builder, kindly has allowed me to post some of the tips he has on his website. Here is how he made his cheap and easy clamps. You can visit his site at: http://clifdawson.ca
How do you measure from one side of a "box" to the other? Or the inside of a cabinet for shelves? Anywhere you need an accurate inside measurement. A tape measure my come close but is hardly accurate.
The answer is at left. This technique was used by our ancestors to build entire rooms full of counters and cabinets.
Two sticks, each longer than 1/2 the distance to be measured are held together and the ends run out to contact the sides of the box. A line "A" is drawn across both sticks. They are removed and placed on the material to be cut with the lines again matched. Now you can mark the the end to be cut off knowing that your material will fit exactly between the sides.

The second set of marks "B" have been added simply to showthat you can use the same two sticks to measure a number of dimensions, then cut out a number of different pieces for other locations. for instance a piece to fit across the bottom of the box where the two square blocks are.
 

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