well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today we're going to review a measuring device that
I have it's a fluke and well it's not a fluke it's a it's a real fluke guys this is it right here and
I don't know if any of yous have this but it's a terrific product this is the fluke 414 B I've
had this for many years and I don't really know if my audience actually uses one of these I'd like to
hear in the comments whether any of yous use these digital measuring devices but it uses a laser and
this one here it's good for 50 meters or 165 feet and this tolerance is quite fine like two to three
mil or I think it is like guys two to three mil is pretty good and so it will measure as low as
one millimeter in tolerance up to 1/16 so when you're looking at this it'll give you in meters
or in feet inches down to 1/16 or a millimeter and I thought that's pretty good and of course
it measures area and it measures volume as well so I'm going to demonstrate this for you today but
what I'd like to really mention is does it replace your tape measure and I'm saying no it doesn't but
it sure is a help in a lot of situations where take for instance you've got you want to make a
measurement say at chest height and you want to go from here to the other side of the wall well guess
what your tape measure does yeah longer you go the more arc you have and it's not a straight line and
it is not accurate that depends on how accurate you have to be usually you have to have somebody
at the other end hold it don't you well this one here push it against your item the button zoom
it'll tell you right to within a couple of MIL exactly how far you are away there's no deviation
an arc and it's just terrific I've been using this for a long time now and I like it better in a lot
of instances especially when you have to make a measurement between two spots where the tape
measure doesn't do a good job at that you have to actually you know have somebody hold the other end
or you have to actually just eyeball it and that kind of stuff this is very simple very fast and
I think very accurate so let's take a look at a couple of measurements here and I'll demonstrate
to you why I like using this and of course it does not replace the tape measure but if you're getting
paid by the hour and you're doing something this here can save you an enormous amount of time so
let's get to it right here okay so there we are right there you can see the laser pointer it's got
the beam on the cabinet and I have my Milwaukee measuring tape there it's got a magnetic end on
it I'll give it a little closer look there and that's the tape measure I prefer and we'll bring
it right back here and now this is kind of boring but so let's just take a look here and what do you
guys see there to me it looks like 92 and a half inches and if we take a look here that's seven
foot seven foot eight and a half so let's take a look and see what this measures seven foot eight
and a half and it's just got pressed right against here and that's how easy it is guys it is dead-on
accurate now I've got this tape measure only at that distance but can you imagine if you had that
set out 30 feet well it wouldn't it wouldn't be able to to measure that accurate well I hope you
like that it's uh it's a terrific item and guys I measure stuff all the time with this I find
this just you know like for me I don't pick up the tape measure the first thing I go to I go to this
I mean I can just point this at the other end of the garage there and you know depending what
I'm pointing at here I got it pointed at some styrofoam on my garage door there it is there
let's just say I want to want to know what the distance is to there just point out it I mean guys
this is so simple I don't know what to say here you know like anything I point out I'm getting
you know a really nice accurate measuring and a lot of times a tape measure like I said before
longer you got this thing the last accurate exist starts to bend Anya and all that kind of stuff so
I prefer the digital tape measure I find it more accurate and so easy especially if I'm going along
and I want to measure baseboards I just go for one end press a button go to the other end of
the room pressing I can go all the way around so fast on all of it and for me why bother fooling
around with the tape measure when this is so easy so small I don't need to have anybody at their end
to hold it there's no guesstimating so this is a product I like it's a product I use and it's a
product and I bought for myself and guys it's it's something that maybe a lot of people I don't know
maybe they don't like some technology or maybe they don't trust it or I don't know what it is
but I do not see a lot of people on YouTube using this in their daily built I mean a lot of times
when you want to get something really accurate this is the way to go but how accurate you have
to be a lot of times especially if you're doing framing and this kind of stuff you don't have to
be dead-on that accurate but the only thing an advantage of this is it is so fast you just put
this in your pouch you know and it's just a matter of pushing a couple of buttons and man you got
measurements like real fast so thanks for joining me here today if you ever seen this channel
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