Get them to lower the floor by 75mm
When I worked in the dockyard, my little bro had a tape measure that was 75mm too short.
Someone thought it would be funny to press the treadle on the guillotine whilst he was measuring the backstop !!??. Being a tight ass he just riveted the end back on ( Minus the 75mm )
He had a habit of lending it to people.
I remember one time, one of the guys asked if he could use his tape to measure a piece of deck plate. he scribbled the measurements on a scrap of paper, gave the tape back and went back into the yard to cut out a pice of plate.
After lunch over came the crane wih this piece of plate. it was lowered into place, the look on the guys face was a classic. " How the hell has that happend " was the cry
He the asked my brother for another loan of his tape. He re-measured the hole in the deck, looked at his scrap of paper. "It's definately right, I dont understand "
He got the shipwrights out to make a pattern. He never did find out the truth.
