On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:03 PM, ruby@m... wrote:

> I worked under a 74 year old carpenter born in 1900 (named
> Joe Shingle) and he showed me how to open the rule to its
> full 6' length in 1/2 a second - great parlor trick for the
> cognoscenti.

No picture, didn't happen. Got a uTube of this?

Bill