Subject: Steel rules

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 23:09:27 -0700

Some of you might get some use out of this trick.  Buy an old or 
crooked framing square at a garage sale, flea market etc, cut off the
short leg about a quarter inch from the inside corner, leaving a small
projection on the long leg.  What you have is a hook ruler that's good
for two feet, is 2 inches wide, and keeps your hand away from the really 
hot parts.
  With the short part, cut notches at 1/4 wide, 3/8 wide and on by
1/8ths and you have a cheater gauge for checking iron you are drawing
out, and the leg already has the saw markings on it! :-)  Make each cut
as deep as it is wide, and you can measure the taper on squares 
accurately and while hot, so make the cut a little big if you are going 
to be using it hot, since the iron will shrink later.
  Bob