Are the yellow Stanley tapes junk?
geoffhazel
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The price seemed right, so I bought a few yellow plastic 25 foot Stanley tape measures. I’m down to one now, the other two mysteriously quit rewinding after a few months of occasional light-duty use. I’ve never had this trouble with the silver ones, but I’m thinking either I got a bad batch or they’re just junk.
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I am assuming the yellow ones you are reffering to are the Max Steel. I have used them for the last couple years. Never had any trouble with the four or so I own. Can't go back to the silver ones - tape to flimsy. Don't like the size of the Fat Max. So the Max Steel are my tape of choice for now.
Think you must have got a bad batch.
actually I think he's refering to the generic looking stanley with a totally plain yellow wrapper that goes for about 5 bones and last about a week. I bought several as spares cus we go through the tapes framing in wet seattle, they are crap...nuff said
I am not sure which YELLOW U mean. The heavy duty yellow Stanley contractor 25 ft 1 in tape is absolutely the BEST tape ever in 38 years of carpentry.
I have had it so long am not acquainted with the new models. Have a new spare waiting but haven't needed it. Will probably break it tomorrow but have had no trouble. Use it with a magnet gizmo holder.
Hey Chachi's Uncle,
I like gizmos myself but after usingthat magnet tape holder for a week I threw it in the garbage.
How can any builder use those stupied things? The minute you bump into anything your tape falls off.
After the second time I was half way up a ladder and my tape fell to the ground the magnet holder was in the garbage....lol
Be clipped
Namaste
andy
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Andy (Amos'straight man),
It must be something like the location or configuration of your toolbag or tape. Mine almost never falls (used to fall some with any system). Plus, think how much good that mag is doing my health. I'll have to take a pic of how & where it hangs. I don't carry near the tools I used to.
Grandpa Fonz
Hey Grandpa (really?)
Well at 52 I try not to wear my tool bags when not necessary. Justthe thought of what eighty pounds feels like its enough to make me retire....that'll be the day...ugh. Sometimes I try and get away with those pansy cloth "aprons" that those homos from Knots wear...lol....kidding kidding!!! (kinda..lol) .
I hear ya on the magnets located close to the manly area...I had it close to that area too but my wife wanted to shoot me with my remington and a yellow shot or was it a purple shot as Neil (cag) reminds me of?.
Maybe she sabotoged the magnet with a layer of glue or sumpin'
Be constantly sti....
Namaste
an....whewwwwwwww...ok ok back to work
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Andy old boy,
Here is that picture you have been waiting for on how to use the magnetic gizmo. Hey, watch what you say about aprons! By the time you're 58 it may come to that.
Three time Grandpa,
Fonz
Hey Fonz,
In 6 years I'll be 58 and maybe a Grand daddy by then and maybe wearing a nail "apron" like you. Well at least yours looks happenin'. Can't tell by the stuff on it if you were doing painting or electrical work that day.
I think I may just spring for the vest that has bags and pockets from Deluth Trading Co.
Far as that magnetic holder for your tape....I sure wouldn't wanna be under a ladder your climbing on. I tossed mine right in the garbage. Mine always kept falling off the magnet when I brushed up against something but if it works well for you than Mazal Tov.
BE Chachi's Uncle,
Namaste
andy
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Andy and Jaybird,
I can tell you how to solve that 80# lifting-tape droppin-ladder climbing: Retire from roofing. We did it 3 years ago and I love it! (The guy I work with asks, "what are we gonna retire from next?"
Stay down
Be MAGNETIC
Fonz
Andy,
I agree...those magnetic holders are trash. A fellow worker purchased one when they first came out. He dropped it three times before lunch that first day. The fourth time hit me in the shoulder from two floors up....I climbed the ladder and personally tore it off his belt and heaved it into the dumpster.J. D. Reynolds
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Two of you on one ladder!!!!!! Cringe...
I was a bit closer to "goal weight" at the time. : )J. D. Reynolds
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Not sure of the exact model you`re speaking of....if its the "contractor grade", let Stanley know about it. When they first started that line I purchased a chalk box that didn`t make it through the day. I dropped them an email complaining that 'just cause you paint something yellow and give it a special name, doesn`t make it a quality product'. They responded asking for my address. A week later, three new chalk boxes of various sizes and a one gallon chalk refill were delivered to my door. All three models are still working fine.
J. D. Reynolds
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