Stanley 0-30-687"Tylon" Tape Measure, Black/Yellow, 3 m/12.7 mm

Working in CAD design in metric makes life much easier and having a measuring tape that goes well beyond my small metric rulers has made measuring to make designs much easier. Solid build with a small and handy size at a great price. It has been very helpful.

I wanted a metric tape measure and this one is a good value. The quality is on par with imperial versions.

Good metric only tape measure

I checked this tape with an accurate steel ruler. Both inside and outside measurements were right on.

Decent metric tape measure, except the locking switch doesn't work very well.Sometimes it locks, but other times it doesn't lock. Even when it does "lock," it doesn't fully lock.I have another Stanley tape measure that has a locking switch that works much better than this one.On this one, if you have it locked, and then you pull it just the tiniest bit, the locking switch unlocks.My other Stanley tape measure doesn't do that, so I think that's a bug in this one.

It is nice to have metric on both sides when you have no use for an inch scale. The narrow tape is great when I don’t need a long tape. Both of mine line up precisely with an expensive tape I think is correct. Fits in a pocket easily.

I live in the United States. We don't use metric measures. But we can for certain applications. When I was confronted with finding the midpoint of a piece of 13 9/16" bar stock I flashed on how much easier it would be to find the midpoint of something using metric. The tape measure the bar at 34.4 cm (34 big marks and 4 little marks). I can half that in my head - 17.2 cm (17 big marks and 2 small marks).It works. I don't need to know anything about the metric system (except that we tried it once but weren't sufficiently smart to convert).

Mostly good. Kind of small, but it is only a 3 meter tape measure. I would have preferred a wider tape with larger numbers because my 70 year old eyes like large print. The case is solid enough for occasional home use, it's small enough to comfortably drop into a pocket making the belt clip something you may want to remove to do so. Someone mentioned "it's a darn toy" referring to it's "cute size" I guess and yes, it was my immediate reaction as well. BUT here in the States, where we show our exceptionalism by embracing some English king's idea of a logical system of measurement, it's hard to find tools for the measurement system all but four countries in the whole world use. SMHThankfully Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton decided to use a metric system for our currency and dump the then existent weird English monetary system.They did not choose to adapt metric weights and measures, so here we are. Too bad.Stanley tools (an American company??) made this particular tool in Belgium yet though the measuring tape ONLY has metric measure ( as I wished) it still put ONLY American measurement on the case to add to whatever metric measurement showed on the tape if one had measured an inside length. That marking is very small and completely useless to the tool.Stars off for stupidity.