![]() Whilst your average 'bargain basement' tape will be unclassified (i.e. one tape measure is not necessarily as accurate as another. If you thought that all tape measures were equal you'd be wrong. I see from this site that there are "class I" and "class II" tape measures. I never thought about the accuracy of tape measures until just now. Made my cut and it was what I had set the TSO guide to. The Parf guide matched the Woodpecker scale and the TSO scale. So I then grabbed my Parf Guide scale and compared that to the Woodpecker scale and the Fastcap PMS-16. I compared the Fastcap PMS-16 tape measure with the woodpecker scale and there was a 1mm difference. I then checked the mark with my Woodpecker scale, it was the dimension I set on the TSO guide. I double checked the calibration on the TSO guide again, it was dead on. ![]() Measured to my mark with my Fastcap PMS-16 tape measure, which is metric / imperial scale and it was 1 mm off which I thought was strange. I prepared my material to cut, set the TSO guide rail to a measurement in mm, don’t recall the exact dimension, made a mark on the material at the edge of my track. I used adjustable square I trust to calibrate the TSO gude rails per the setup instructions to the 10 inches. I have the TSO parallel guides and had a similar issue which caused me to start double checking any new measuring tool to a known good measure. Set the TGP guide to 10 inches and voila! It was spot on, precisely on my mark.ĭid anyone else who owns this system noticed anything similar? Are metric and imperial scales a little off and I have to calibrate for the metric scale separately? I then used the same Woodpeckers square that I did not readjust and made a mark at 10 inches. My mark was almost exactly 1 mm away from the guide rail. Then I made a mark on my work piece at 545 mm using Fastcap's True32 tape measure and set the TGP guide at 545 mm. I calibrated both flipstops by following the manufacturer's instructions: set both stops at the 10" mark, then set my Woodpeckers adjustable square to 10 inches, firmly pressed it against the guide rail and secured the calibration rods against the end of the square. However, my 30" tracks have an issue - the metric scale is approximately 1 mm off. The system is very well made and thought out, I think it's the best parallel guide solution out there. ![]() I just recently became a happy owner of the TPG parallel guide system by TSO.
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