STANLEY Tylon 8m/26ft Pocket Tape Yellow/Black, 0-30-656

After many pound shop tape measures I got this o e in hope for a little better quality. Well this is miles better than any of the cheap nasty ones I ever had. I am sure this is still not up there with the professional ones but works for me. It has a good weight to it so I imagine the materials are good and the retracting mechanism wont give in anytime soon.

Its a decent quality tape measure for the price. However, it doesnt have a magnetic tip or auto lock feature which i like a lot. But that was expected.

Excellent tape measure - reassuringly heavy/solid. Has lines and numbers on it, at a set distance apart, and the entire length of the tape. I found this useful for measuring things.

Great

Used Daily

Seems fine. For a few pence more, a tie could have been added to hang it up.

RUBBISH. I used it today for the first time. After the 5th measurement (180) the tape refused to retract after half had gone back into the holder. I couldnt even push it back. The locking button is incredibly stiff. My solution was to draw out about 8 of tape and squirt WD40 inside it using the fine red straw provided on WD40 cans and squeezing it past both edges of the tape where it goes back inside the holder. The tape now works moderately well but still sticks when retracting AND the darn thing is now coated in WD40 so I cant even return it as I will presumably be deemed to have messed with its construction. No idea who Stanley have now subcontracted to make their equipment, but this is appalling quality. This will be my last purchase of a Stanley product.

Solid weighty tape measure. Good length at 8 meters but also wide, 2.5cm, making it easy to read.

Just what youd expect from a Stanley product. Really good solid tape.

Ideal for working out large meterage and very smooth recoil and great tape locking feature