A Ruler to Rule Them All

A ruler to rule them all. Well actually it's a tape measure but if I used that name instead I wouldn't have a catchy title. Titles aside this was a very good and patriotic purchase. The Stanley Powerlock 25' (SPL25) costs about $10 but measures up to 25 feet. That's less than 50 cents per foot. Not bad. Not bad. And despite being 25 feet long it can fit in my coat pocket. Try to figure that one out. The SPL25 and other Stanley tape measures are made in the USA with global components (but so what, I am too). I couldn't find any information about their factory on the Stanley Tools website but I did find this cool video on Youstube. They mention New Britain, Connecticut (aka the the Hardware City).

Here's a non-exhaustive list of things I've measured with my SPL25:

A table
A piece of wood that I used to make a new coat hanger than angles downward so my kids can reach it and hang up their coats instead of just dropping them on the mud room floor.
A second piece of wood that I used to make a new coat hanger because I messed up the angle of screw holes on the first one.
A cubit
A cajon drum
A cajon drum box
My daughter's cranium
An isosceles (thank you spell-check) triangle

Clearly the things that can be measured with the SPL25 are limitless. I've even devised a method for measuring things longer things longer than 25 feet but I can't reveal it while the patent is pending.

-Keep Rulin'

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