Lufkin PQR1316N Quickread Return Hi Visibility Review

I was looking for a smaller tape measure for garage projects. Over the past 20 years, I've learned that I rarely need the last 15 feet of a 25-foot tape measure. Most of the time I just need enough tape to get to the end of the 8ft plywood. This length is perfect. The only downside was that it wasn't possible to use a metric tape measure for that length. Because, come on, I don't want to figure out what half of 3' 7/16" is. Now half is 125cm. I can do it in my head. So if you want a standard…

I have been a contractor for over 50 years. This tape measure will spend so much time reading a SMALL print and using it vertically instead of horizontally. The fractions are printed in small numbers and the lines are collapsed to make room for the numbered fractions. The inch numbers are large, but are not printed horizontally as they used to be. It was made for people who were never taught how to read a ruler in elementary school and therefore never learned fractions to understand how to read

We read left to right, so I think every engineer designing tape measures reads them left to right. Why has it never occurred to me that being right handed I need to hold the tape measure in my right hand and the end of the tape measure in my left (to get the numbers right. BUT I AM RIGHT HANDED. I want to mark with my right hand). Hand. Okay, you can do that, but then the numbers are reversed. Mix that with a bit of dyslexia and I make measurement errors far too often. I don't know if some…