Tapes below $8 or $10 aren’t worth the cheap plastic they’re made of, and no tape measure is worth more than $20. For price, there really isn’t a huge range. My experience is that tapes ...

This isn’t one of those retractable tape measures, mind you — just a long strip of flexible metal on a wind-up spool in a plastic case. His idea was to use the tape as the radiator for an end ...