You all can mock me if you have already figured this one out, but it has taken me a number of times trying to get a good measurement of something round, like a barrel or trashcan, to come up with it. I would normally lay a tape measure across the top in a number of places, trying to be on the diameter as best as I could, and then average the results. The other night, I was measuring the Brute trashcan I'm building my system around, and was getting diameter measurements that varied by as much as an inch. So I decided to measure the circumference of the can, and then used math to determine the diameter of a circle with that circumference. I haven't built the part that needs to fit the can, but I have high hopes for the accuracy of this method.
Do any of you have any tips like that that you might take for granted, that you wold want to add?
Do any of you have any tips like that that you might take for granted, that you wold want to add?