What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Strong spring, great lock and the brake is handy to not * your finger. Retraction mechanism is strong and has held up for years now. Seems durable and for the price can’t beat it.
My eyes are old, but i can clearly see 16ths and can interpolate to 32nds. No bacon edges, no inaccuracies until now, and easy to read either direction. Love the spring belt clip and denoted 1/16” graduation on tape. Also like that the 16th measured l... Read More
The pro carpenter tape measure makes my work days better. I'm replacing just the slab, so accurate measurements are crucial to line up the hinges for proper install. This is the best tape measure i’ve ever used, even has a pencil sharpener. I am a car... Read More
Cons
Light weight & cheap. Everything else is great but that makes this worthless. Good concept but too many flaws and cheaply constructed throughout.
White on black numbers are not readily readable unless you are in a well lite-up room. These tapes have some really neat features, but beware that most of them are somewhat inaccurate. The font used for the foot markers is barely visible, it's so smal... Read More
When you hook the end of a board, the tape is about a 1/16th off. As a fine furniture builder, 1/32 is way too much for a tape to be off.
Highlights
Quality
The quality is slightly below that of my stanley maglocks but the readfrombothdirections feature has made this one of my favori... Read More
I’m a sucker for measuring instruments and this a great product
Price
This tape is better than any of the big box name brand tape measures and the price is very reasonably
Overall i really have no complaints considering how much these cost
Packaging/appearance
Solid and sturdy easy to read great markings and i liked the white circle i cut a logo for my company on the cricut and slapped... Read More
Competitiveness
Ill never use another brandstyle tape measure other than fastcap pro carpenter
Great being about to read the numbers eaither way
I am a diyer and build cabinets on the side
I used to favor a milwaukee tape measure but after watching many people on youtube talk about fastcap tape measures i had to try it out
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- This product had a total of 5,722 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 14 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If i get one the is off alot not so far i would send it back
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Btw i find that the inside vs outside measure differs by about exactly 1 mm
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
May need the imperial and metric for the hat trick
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Dislike the fact that the ruler part does not lay flat against what your measuring its bent but you can still read it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I’m terrible at math and this takes out so much thinking because it’s so well labeled
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As the only left handed carpenter in the cabinet shop i got tired of having to read all the measurements upside down
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Guess i didnt really know what i was expecting
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
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