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(More customer reviews)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.
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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". Diameter is 12-1/2". Folding heavy-duty handle with curved gripping area extends and locks at 39". Heavy-duty die-cast aluminum wheels and kickstand.
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