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1. 
   MarkH | Jun 13, 2013 04:34pm | #1

   Chuck it, no blade available.

2. 
   IdahoDon | Jun 26, 2013 02:24am | #2

   I think the new fat max tapes are crap - I have yet to have one last longer than 6 months of good use - I must have bought over 20 of the damned things the last 10 years.   I few months ago I got a tape wet outside in the rain - not soaked, but there was moisture on the tape that I intended to wipe off at the end of the day.  The tape sat overnight and the next day it was junk - the spring wouldn't work at all!!  The first time that had happened in 15 years of using these tapes.   Bought a new one, it rained again, tape sat overnight and same thing happned!   Junk.  Some bean counter decided to save a few pennies they'd skimp on something - I honestly don't know how guys in rainy areas could justify using this tape.

3. 
   [email protected] | Jun 26, 2013 05:23am | #3

   Buy a new one.

   Few manufacturers are still selling replacement tapes. 

   The cost to package and inventory them, coupled with an ever more competitive battle for retail shelf space driven by the BORG, Lowers, and the rest of the big box retail establishements, makes it more cost effective to sell just the complete package. 

   Given the choice of $35 for a new tape measure or $30 for just the tape, most people will choose the new tape.  Thus the big box won't devote any space to the slower selling replacement tape.  Without retail demand the manufacturers don't make what their market (the retailers) won't buy.  

4. 
   jimjimjim | Jun 26, 2013 01:03pm | #4

   fix that tape

   SB:

   Junkhound has a FATMAX with a broken spring he found for free on Craigslist.  Send him your carcass.

   Regards,

   Jim Jim Jim