Tape measure getting rusty

[artie]

My tape measure by the mitre saw is getting rusty.
Suggestions for a replacement with easily read numbers appreciated.

 

[Richard_C]

Level, square and properly fitted are artificial constructs of a materialist bourgeoisie society. A truly free spirit would throw the measure away and work by eye.

If you insist on being imprisoned by convention, I use a Stanley tape measure and its not "gone off" in the garage, nice bright yellow. Not something I think much about really.

Act fast. I reckon Rees Mogg will want to ban the sale of anything calibrated in mm before too long, and I just can't get my head around furlongs and chains. Don't get me started on poles, links and ells.

 

[artie]

Level, square and properly fitted are artificial constructs of a materialist bourgeoisie society. A truly free spirit would throw the measure away and work by eye.

Unfortunately the red, or was it the blue, pill hasn't kicked in yet and when I'm asked to make something 10 ft long , I do my best to make it at least 3m

If you insist on being imprisoned by convention, I use a Stanley tape measure and its not "gone off" in the garage, nice bright yellow. Not something I think much about really.

I would like a self adhesive one, being too lazy to repetitively get the stanley out of my pocket.

Act fast. I reckon Rees Mogg will want to ban the sale of anything calibrated in mm before too long, and I just can't get my head around furlongs and chains. Don't get me started on poles, links and ells.

First job I had when I left school was with a land drainage company.

Field drains were charged by the perch.

 

[Richard_C]

Ah, stick on.

I have one stuck-on tape, a free 'paper like' one from Ikea where they are distributed with the pencils and shopping list pro formas on stands by the entrance. Don't recall what glue I used, probably pva or even a pritt stick. I pick up a few at a time (must be 3+ years since I went to Ikea) and leave them in places like car door pockets. Suppose you could disembowel a cheap retractable one. No better ideas, sorry.

 

[clogs]

Stanley Fat Max is the route to go.....not cheap but occ on offer...
last one I bought came in a 4 pack....
I mostley use a 3m size tape.....have a few all over the place.....

 

[Coyote]

My tape measure by the mitre saw is getting rusty.
Suggestions for a replacement with easily read numbers appreciated.

There are loads of self adhesive tapes on Amazon in various colours, sizes and styles.

 

[artie]

Stanley Fat Max is the route to go.....not cheap but occ on offer...

That's what I keep in my pocket, loath to disembowel one, I don't think it would stick down well anyway.

 

[artie]

There are loads of self adhesive tapes on Amazon in various colours, sizes and styles.

Yes, I'm looking, hoping someone might recommend one rust proof, plenty sticky and easy to read.

Not asking for much really.

 

[pe2dave]

Which side? Do you want L-R or R-L?
I have one (unused) but it isn't sticky. Flat and non-metallic.

 

[artie]

Which side? Do you want L-R or R-L?
I have one (unused) but it isn't sticky. Flat and non-metallic.

L-R min 3.6m long

 

[Jester129]

Amazon have 3 or 5 metre steel stick on ones for less than a tenner.

HTH,
J