Stanley 33-115 10-Foot-by-1/4-Inch PowerLock Pocket Tape Rule

Stanley 33-115 10-Foot-by-1/4-Inch PowerLock Pocket Tape Rule
From Stanley Hand Tools

With a slim, trim case, the Stanley 10-Foot-by-1/4-Inch PowerLock Pocket Tape Rule is ideal for pockets or purses. A special Tru-Zero hook does double-duty as a pivot for drawing circles and arcs. For longer life and durability, this tape measure features a polymer-coated blade, a heat-treated spring, and a chrome-plated metal case.A convenient belt clip is fastened on back of the case. This tape rule has a 1/4-inch-by-10-feet blade and even measures up to 3-foot diameters on its back side. It comes with Stanley's limited lifetime warranty.

This is a very well made product. Very compact and high quality. It pulls out easily and retracts smoothly with confidence. It has an inches-in-diameter ruler on the other side of the regular inch ruler. You lay the tape over the circumference and the ruler reads out the diameter (instead of the circumference itself) in inches, thus saving you from doing the calculation for the conversion. But frankly, I seldom use this feature and would have preferred an international centimeter ruler (denary basis of course) on the other side. However, I still would give it five star for its own design even though I prefer something different.

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