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Celebrate Pi Day 2019 With A Diameter Tape Measure

pi symbol
pi symbol

Pi Day is March 14. This year you can help celebrate by answering the question at the bottom.

Pi is the constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, no matter what size the circle is. This is useful knowledge when you work with water pipes or oil or gas pipelines, and you need to replace part of it. You can measure the circumference and divide by pi. But there’s an easier way to do that.

Diameter Tape (pi Tape)
Diameter Tape (pi Tape)

Let a Lufkin Diameter tape measure do it for you. You just wrap it around the pipe, and read the diameter. Mathematicians call pi an irrational number, since it goes on for an infinite number of decimal places, but using a diameter tape is a very rational and easy way to find the diameter of a pipe. To see a little video on How to measure the diameter of a pipe, just click here.

 

Trivia: What famous scientist was born on Pi Day?

 

 

 

The Next Big Thing In Thermos Bottles

A brief history of the Thermos® Bottle goes back to 1892. The glass vacuum flask was invented by Sir James Dewar of Scotland. It was intended to keep chemical experiments at a constant temperature. William B. Walker obtained the patent rights and founded The American Thermos Bottle Company in 1907. The first bottles in the Brooklyn NY factory were double-glass vacuum bottles and protected by a metal cylinder. Then in 1966, a new design was introduced. The Thermos bottles were made with a double wall of stainless steel. No glass was used. Now you could drop the bottle and not be disappointed with a broken glass insert.

Today, the latest design is a hi-end replacement for the Koozie® sleeve. It holds a soft drink can or a beer bottle, and keeps it cold for much longer.

2700DefualtLogo Thermos® Beverage Can Insulator 2700

 

Architect Scale Rulers Explained in 140 Words Or Less

Most people don’t need an architect scale ruler, but for those who do need one, this is for

Architect At Work
Architect At Work

you.

This ruler will make your job easier, so you can obtain measurements off the drawing without having to convert from the drawing’s actual measurements. You can use the 12″ size in the office. Or, you can take the 6″ pocket version with you into the field. For larger drawings, you can use the retractable pocket architect tape. This will work either in the field, or the office.

 

The Next Surprise in Promotional Maglites®

What will the next surprise be in Promotional Maglites®?

Maglite-Paul Rizzo-Dave Navoyosky
Maglite-Paul Rizzo-Dave Navoyosky

Here are some possibilities. (Simply our light-hearted uneducated guesses)

  1. Made in the USA out of US and foreign parts (Other great manufacturers have gone this route. Could we see it with these famous flashlights?)
  2. Made in Taiwan
  3. Warranty reduced to 90 days. Optional extended warranty available for $29 per year.
  4. Don’t want to buy one? Rent one by the month.
  5. Free batteries for 5 years.
  6. Need one for just a day? Pick one up at a Torch Kiosk. Return it to any Torch Kiosk. Only $1 per hour. If you don’t return it for a week, your credit card will be charged $200.
  7. $15 discount when you trade in any other brand flashlight for a real Maglite®.
  8. Do you need one delivered? Just call Yuber, and they will bring you one to purchase. $37 delivery and processing charge.

Let us know what your guess is, by adding a comment to this blog.

 

3 Easy Steps to Use a Pipe Diameter Tape Measure

How To Use A Diameter Tape
How To Use A Diameter Tape

This time, we won’t get into the geometry theory of pi that we had in high school. The magic of a pipe diameter tape measure is its simplicity of use. Here are the 3 steps to find the diameter of a pipeline:

  1. Clean the pipe surface. Soil and any other contamination, of course, will make the pipe seem bigger than it really is.
  2. Wrap the diameter tape around it, with the diameter scale visible to you.
  3. Simply read off the tape. This will be the diameter, even though the tape is wrapped around the circumference. That’s all!

Some things to watch for…..Some OD tapes (diameter tapes) are marked in 100ths of an inch. Some are marked in 64ths of an inch. On the 64ths of an inch tape, 32/64 would be 1/2″. 16/64 would be 1/4″. 24/64 would be 3/8″. For convenience, you can use a magic marker to mark some of these common, but confusing measurements.

For a 2 1/2 minute video with more detail, click How To Use A Diameter Tape.

 

10 Best Reasons To Give 2020 Promotional Calendars

Calendar Advertising
Calendar Advertising

Since the Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC, everyone has depended on it. In the 1800’s promotional calendars were introduced. In 1894, up to 3 million promotional advertising calendars were produced in the United States alone.

Here are 10 reasons you and your company should give 2020 promotional calendars to your customers:

  1. 98% of all people look at a calendar every day.
  2. 74% of recipients remember the name of the advertiser on their promo calendar.
  3. 82% of all recipients enjoy receiving a calendar as a free gift.
  4. Calendars can be customized with your own pictures and coupon page.
  5. More than 3 calendars are printed every second in the USA.
  6. 70% of recipients plan to do business with the company that gave them a calendar.
  7. Calendar advertising outperforms other advertising media on these measurements: Target marketing, Clarity of message, Value, Permanence, Competition for attention. These comparisons were made against Newspapers, Magazines, Radio, Television, Direct Mail. This study was done by Dr. Kenneth Lawyer, retired Marketing Department Chair of Case Western Reserve University.
  8. The average household has 3.12 printed calendars.
  9. Calendars advertising is appreciated more than any other kind of advertising.
  10. The cost per impression is about 4 hundredths of a penny. This is calculated on an average calendar price of $1.50, with 10 impressions per day, for a whole year. (3650 impressions).

Most data courtesy of PPAI (Promotional Products Association International, A Study of Calendar Usage in U.S. Households (2011).

 

Give A Diameter Tape Measure For Christmas

Give Diameter Tapes for Christmas
Give Diameter Tapes for Christmas

A diameter tape measure can save you a lot of time and frustration when you want to find the OD (outside diameter) of a pipe, post, or tree. This special tape has the inch scale (or metric scale) stretched out by a factor of pi (3.14159). So, if you wrap it around the pipeline, you will not see the “circumference”. You will see its diameter. You don’t need to divide your answer by 3.14159.