On Sat, 01 May 2010 16:24:32 -0400, J Burns
wrote:



Thank you! They even have a 3-meter model. I could keep my 7.5 on the
shelf and use the little one most of the time: easier to carry, cheaper
to break.

Just go through the tape once scraping the paint off the ones that
should be shorter. (yeah, I wouldn't wnat to do that either, but...)

They would be perfect if the pattern didn't have 4 adjacent marks of the
same length. On my old ones, there are no more than two adjacent marks
of the same length (2 and 3, 7 and 8). That means my eyes don't have
to count little marks. I wonder why it's not common.