What's up everyone? Welcome back to The Durbin Compound. If we're meeting for the first time,
my name is Devin Durbin and I'm here to bring you the tools, tips, and tricks to make you more
self-sufficient. So today we're talking about the best tape measures in 2020. So, these tape measures
come in all different shapes and sizes. Every store has different brands. We're going to go
over my favorite tape measure and I think the last tape measure you'll ever buy. Stay tuned!
All right guys, so let's talk about some tape measures here. So everybody has their difference
in opinion and features and all of the cool stuff. And I go first kind of cool and second kind of
cool. First kind of cool is functionality. Does it actually do its job? And then the second kind of
cool is some of the features like, you know, the black tape measure and stuff like having the
writing on both sides or the measurements on both sides. Stuff like, you know, a gritty end here, a
different shaped end, you know, your traditional, everybody's coming out with
different things. You can see I've worn out a bunch of tape measures in the past. And the reason why I
have three Black Widows is because they went on a promo at Lowe's and these things were like $3
a piece. So of course, I was going to get as many as I could-- which was three. So, you know,
they all have their own features. This has a nice over-mold and a little lanyard loop. Things like
that. The thing I like a lot about the Milwaukee is it has this little finger here or this finger
groove, so you can slow down the tape measure as it's coming in. And there's no pinch factor here. So
you can, you know, this huge tip on the end here doesn't come smacking you
in the finger and hurts you. I mean this is a magnetic tip. You know, crap always gets on here.
It's not a bad tape measure. It has a lot to be desired with some of the different features,
but it's certainly not my favorite. So, let's get down to the real reason why we're here. So
this Lufkin Shockforce is absolutely, by all means, the best tape measure I have ever used.
This thing is rated for a 100 foot drop. If you're really wanting to see a cool
two minute video here in the card Acme tools takes this thing and they drop it from 85 feet
onto a concrete floor in a stadium. And this thing takes the blow and just keeps on going. So there
are two different versions of this tape measure. I always opt for the black or the Nite Eye.
The black tape with the neon lettering, very cool, very easy to see.
Nice markings at a foot and 16 on center. You know, come out here, see another 16 on center.
Just an awesome tape measure all the way around. The second kind of cool on this, it has the same,
whatever you want to call it, as the Black Widow, except for this one's diamond
encrusted. They've kind of bedazzled this thing so that it makes it gritty and it won't come off of
stuff. I will admit building a deck railing with this tape measure was a pain in the butt because
no matter, what this thing would just always slip off. So as you can see the footprint's
kind of small. You know, it has all your traditional little grooves for hanging on nails and stuff
like that, hanging on screws, whatever, but this thing's definitely second kind of cool. You get
that bedazzled tip there and it looks awesome. But the ability for this thing to take a hundred
foot drop and still keep on going is amazing. So another feature with this that I've used once,
I'll probably only use it once, this little lanyard, the hole by the lanyard is for a pencil. So
I've used this one time and like I said, it'll probably be the only time.
Of course, I didn't come prepared, but a small mechanical pencil will go down in here.
And you can use this to scribe arches and circles. So you can basically drag this around
the center point and I did a, basically, an arch with it. And, you know, it's not
that bad. I mean you're getting a, you could use a compass, but if you're doing something
large, like let's say you're laying out a patio, and you need a 12 foot radius on a circle,
you can have one person hold this around your center point and then you can mark it out. I mean,
you know, how much will you use it? I've used it once. My arch was, I just needed to cut a 2 x 4
with a little arch in it. Jigsawed it out. But, boom! So this tape measure's awesome! Let's talk about
the price. So we've talked about durability--just awesome--the first kind of cool. Second kind of cool--
all this bedazzled, and all these features, the price is really important. So you can go on,
let's see, at a place like Acme tools, you can get two of these bad boys for $30.
If you buy them separately, if you buy just one, there's all kinds of different prices all over
the board. So, I'll put a couple links in the description below. You can get either version
of this. I should mention, I'll roll in a picture of the other version. If you're looking at one
with orange panels in here, that is the one with the regular yellow style tape. So it's
going to look like this when you pull it out. Same tape measure, different color on the panel.
That way you know that this is not the Nite Eye. The Nite Eye has the black and fluorescent tape.
So, I think this is the best. This works for me. I like it. Some people might not have that same
opinion. That's all good and well, but I've been through a lot of tape measures and I've used
a lot of them over the years. I've used and abused all these crappy, cheap, you know, everything from
Cobalt to Stanley, Craftsman, you know, all the way up to my favorite Lufkin here. Made by Crescent, the
parent company and it's awesome. So, I hope you guys enjoyed the video. All right guys, that wraps up the
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