Lenny: Thanks for sharing. I always like to hear of interesting ways of accomplishing tasks such as this.
I bet this method also helps to keep the tacks in a straight line as well. Terry On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:28:56 -0400you write: >The other day I watched a little of diy. They were planning on using some >decorative tacks around a project. The way that they evenly spaced them was >pretty neat. They took a piece of elastic material and poked the tacks >through right next to each other. Then they stretched the elastic against >the project. By stretching it perfectly made each tack the same distance >apart. Then they tapped in the tacks and pulled the elastic away before >finishing. There are probably many other uses for this type of measuring.
