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Java Jive wrote:

but what actually happens is that I hook the tape under
something, walk to the other end of the distance, and, usually just as
I'm leaning over to read off the distance, the other end pops out,

1) Better tape with a hook-end that has *teeth*?
2) Gaffer tape it down?
3) Small veneer pin/nail through hole in end?

tape winds up, on one occasion when I was too slow to react even cutting
my thumb sufficiently for it to bleed, and I curse and have to begin again.

It's not just the end that wants a blood sacrifice, it's the edges of
the tape. Like a paper cut, but worse.

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