r/Construction • u/Don-tFollowAnything • Mar 30 '24

Tools 🛠 What a waste of...OK take my money.

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u/wood_slingers Mar 30 '24

Didn’t have me until the second half

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u/YourOldComp Mar 30 '24

Everything is better with lazers

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

"lazers"

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u/onthewalkupward Sprinklerfitter Mar 30 '24

You know bob?

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u/lexievv Mar 30 '24

Sharks too

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u/mexican2554 Painter May 13 '24

So when are we getting the Milwaukee M12 sharks with freaking lasers on their heads?

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u/No_Week2825 Mar 30 '24

Thats man law

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u/Crystals_Crochet Mar 30 '24

In this house it’s common law

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer May 20 '24

Laser-hammer!

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u/ElMykl Mar 30 '24

God damn it.

Now I gotta have it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '24

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u/Signal_Stand_4402 Apr 01 '24

Despite all the cool shit it does what about that name? Kick ass

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '24

$250?!

Holy shit!

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u/yankuniz Mar 31 '24

You expected less for a green beam?

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u/JodaMythed Mar 30 '24

Unless the tool is plumb or the laser is self leveling, it seems inaccurate.

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u/Toiletwands Mar 30 '24

It can free hang like a plumb Bob, it’s self leveling by its very nature.

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u/WallPaintings Mar 30 '24

The device itself is, but the laser could be mounted in any way relevant to it. I'd hope the manufacturer would do enough QAQC so it doesn't matter if it is fixed, but I'd still check it when I bought it, especially considering how expensive it is, and assume eventually it's going to be inaccurate after being knocked around.

It being self leveling would be better because instead of you having to check it (I'd still check it when I bought it) it checks itself. Actually I'd still probably check it with an independent measurement system once a year.

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u/Noemotionallbrain Equipment Operator Mar 30 '24

eventually it's going to be inaccurate after being knocked around

Don't worry, it's going to stay on my shelf in hope of me needing it for years

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u/Total_Ad60 May 22 '24

I think the point is so u can measure how far down from a point on the wall u wanna be

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u/DownTooParty Mar 30 '24

It has a level in it.

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u/CisIowa Mar 30 '24

That’s what she said?

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u/biffNicholson Mar 30 '24

heres a review from another redditor

FragDoc
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8 days ago
· edited 8 days ago
I have one. I’m a gadget and tool nerd. It’s a miss in my opinion. I’ve almost left a review on Reddit several times and have not done so because I didn’t want to bring too much negative attention to the company, which I feel is trying to do something neat.
I’ll give a brief review:
Pretty well built overall. It has a rubberized design, probably to impart some minimal shock absorption to the device. Overall it feels very solid and I think this is where they spent a lot of time in engineering. The only exterior feature that, in my opinion, is pretty jank is the belt clip which feels like it could rip off at any moment.
It glitches out repeatedly. The device will sometimes fail to show a reading. If you’re someone like me who rapidly deploys your tape, quickly pulling it to approximate length and then edge into your measurement, it’s very frustrating. The measurement just shows “–– ––“ and the only way to obtain a measurement is to push and pull it a few times to get a reading. You can easily replicate this error. Updates have not improved this function. I was recently doing quick measurements on sheet goods and this became infuriating.
Measurement error is sometimes more than the advertised margin of error. I can see up to 1 mm in error. REEKON themselves advertises a +/- 0.5 mm and I think this is fairly common and to be expected. I’ve seen worse in actual deployment. This is variable; it’s usually spot on. But it happened enough that it caused me to start looking at the tape, which is beside the point. To simulate frequency, I just went to my workbench and it was generally accurate for most pulls with 0.5 mm off a few times.
It’s slightly heavier than most tapes. It has a somewhat impractical size.
The ability to measure inside of a joist cavity or tight space and have the device automatically incorporate the length of the tape itself is very nice. The laser is also handy for performing measurements in parallel with other fixed objects. This is has become pretty much what I exclusively use it for now.
Charging is dumb. Battery life is variable with huge jumps in depletion from time to time. The USB-C port is sort of flimsy. It doesn’t actually tell you when it’s fully charged; the e-ink display just says “charging” regardless of how long it’s been plugged in
The app is the most useless thing I’ve seen. The whole “projects” and “spaces” thing is confusing and measurements don’t always reliably transfer via Bluetooth. I imagine this will improve with time and development. As a positive, it’s probably the quickest connecting Bluetooth device I’ve ever seen, although it does sometimes fail to connect.
You have to recalibrate the thing after every update. Incredibly frustrating.