{"id":17325,"date":"2013-04-13T23:13:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T03:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17325"},"modified":"2013-04-14T00:11:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T04:11:35","slug":"ikea-fixa-metric-standard-tape-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/ikea-fixa-metric-standard-tape-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA FIXA Metric + Standard Tape Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/IMG_7335.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"IKEA FIXA tape measure, item number 402.375.57, a metric and standard tape measure.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/103845-2\/IMG_7335.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\">IKEA<\/a>, purveyors of useful (and usually) imported items has one item that I think will be of particular use to those interested in the mechanical side of cycling: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/products\/40237557\/\">FIXA Tape Measure (item 402.375.57)<\/a>, a metric and standard tape measure which retails for $1.29 in US stores.<\/p>\n<p>Bicycle measurements, especially frame dimensions, seem to be randomly specified in metric or standard units. To\u00a0accommodate\u00a0this and support measuring tire circumferences I bought a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanleyhandtools.com\">Stanley<\/a> metric tape measure via eBay from Canada, but I thought it&#8217;ll be really nice to have this dual-unit one. Now I do, and it&#8217;s cheap enough that I don&#8217;t mind throwing it in a tool bag with other items, leaving it there to get scratched and nicked up, nor loaning it to someone and potentially losing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IKEA, purveyors of useful (and usually) imported items has one item that I think will be of particular use to those interested in the mechanical&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/13\/ikea-fixa-metric-standard-tape-measure\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IKEA FIXA Metric + Standard Tape Measure<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17327,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17325\/revisions\/17327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}