Stanley 77-194 MW408 12" Aluminum Wheel Measuring Wheel in Feet/Inches

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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Stanley 77-194 Measuring Wheel ¿ Accurate, well balanced, easily portable for many applications. Featuring a 5-digit counter and pushbutton reset, all MeasureMark® measuring wheels are available in feet and inches, feet and 10ths, or meters and decimeters. Counters measure up to 9,999 feet or 9,999 meters, the competition only measures up to 1,000 feet or 1,000 meters! Heavy duty die-cast aluminum wheel is standard. . Kickstand is standard on 12-inch wheel.

Product Description

From the Manufacturer Stanley 77-194 Measuring Wheel ¿ Accurate, well balanced, easily portable for many applications. Featuring a 5-digit counter and pushbutton reset, all MeasureMark® measuring wheels are available in feet and inches, feet and 10ths, or meters and decimeters. Counters measure up to 9,999 feet or 9,999 meters, the competition only measures up to 1,000 feet or 1,000 meters! Heavy duty die-cast aluminum wheel is standard. . Kickstand is standard on 12-inch wheel. Product Description Designed to handle a variety of measuring jobs indoor and out. Durable neoprene tire for good traction over most surfaces. Push button reset counter records feet and inches up to 10,000'. Counter subtracts as well as adds. Wheel circumference is 36". Diam

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12 x 6 x 30 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000P3WWD0
• Item model number: 77-194
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,127 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)

Customer Reviews

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Build quality is sub-par for continued use, February 10, 2008

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Buck R. Cash - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stanley 77-194 MW408 12" Aluminum Wheel Measuring Wheel in Feet/Inches (Tools & Home Improvement)

If you're going to wheel something every once in a while, this will work fine. But if you're going to wheel all day every day, find a better wheel than this. I'm on my second one in three week's work and I'm using it only because it's all I could readily get locally in this little burg I'm presently in.

Immediately, the little plastic nubs that hold the kickstand up broke off, so I had to remove the kickstand completely so it wouldn't hang down and be in the way while working the wheel. Now I can't leave it standing on it's own while writing down measurements. This happened on both wheels, and I'm not abusing them - At $60 each, I don't want to keep buying them!

I also noticed that the plastic body that holds the handle and the counter, and that the wheel goes into, is very thin, flexible and the seam parts under very little pressure. I wondered about this right away and, sure enough, it finally broke at the handle after about two weeks use, which is why I'm on my second of these wheels.

The counter reset is not friendly when it comes to the number 5. If I wheel out a number that has a 5 in it, or worse, two 5s or, worse still, 55' 5", I have to spin the wheel off that number in order for the reset switch to work. I guess it can't figure out if it should reset the spinners backwards or forwards because they're dead smack in the middle, so it just fights against your thumb pushing on it and does nothing.

It also too frequently doesn't measure at all, sometimes making a grating noise that at least tips me off that it's not functioning (but not always, so I get to the other end of the span I'm measuring only to find that I'm still on zero or a number that just can't be right), or when I stop, the numbers are all in half-way positions, so I don't know if I've measure 64' or 73', and have to walk it all over again, meaning I end up walking that span 3 times before I can move on.

I'm here writing this review because I'm on Amazon looking for a better wheel, and happened across this one that I'm too familiar and frustrated with already.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Buy, December 30, 2007

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Karl E. Berghauer (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stanley 77-194 MW408 12" Aluminum Wheel Measuring Wheel in Feet/Inches (Tools & Home Improvement)

Very good product for the price. As an engineer perforing road surveys, I needed an accurate but easy to use measuring wheel. This one, with it's folding handle beats the rest. I have come to dislike the telescoping handle on some models, which fail over time. Also, the Aluminum wheel last long, and the forward and backward measuring helps zero in on distances, and can "subtract" when you have gone too far.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good product. Well built., February 1, 2010

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David Fiddes "Dyno" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stanley 77-194 MW408 12" Aluminum Wheel Measuring Wheel in Feet/Inches (Tools & Home Improvement)

I haven't used this a lot, but it seems to be well built. I like the folding handle feature as well as the kickstand. Works as good as I had hoped.