Ratings & Reviews for Stanley FATMAX 30-ft Auto Lock Tape Measure

Fabulous American Made Tape Measure!!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I looooove the auto lock! Perfect for taking a moment to double check math or scribing several marks in one piece of material. Great font on the numbers. Large and easy to read quickly. I don't regret getting auto lock but that is COMPLETELY preference. The function works wonderfully. No slip rubber also a plus. Sturdy, rigid design and construction as expected from Stanley. Small hand man here and it fits quite nice in them.

Great quality!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Wow just wow! This is like the king of all tape measures! I'm 100 percent serious! My husband always loses all his tape measures or the tape measure breaks after a few uses. With this awesome tape measure we don't have to worry about losing it because it's very large! It's great for working alone. The strip with the measurements has large bold numbers which is great when you need to use it alone or have to measure something high up! The durabil...

Nice tape measure.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This tape is slightly larger than the 25 ft, it is not to big to carry around. I like the auto lock feature and the fact you can "turn it off/disable it". I was able to get 130 inches of stand out, probably could have got a few more inches, but it was difficult to take the photo. The framing hook was difficult to attach at first, but I finally got it to go on and off. Sturdy and nice to hold. Overall I like this tape.

Auto lock button broke after a week's use

Auto lock button needed to be made much stronger. It failed after one week of light use and now the tape will not go back in. Makes it worthless. Far to expensive of a tool to be this easy to break. The plastic and rubber case is strong but the button for the auto lock is not.

Standout length

Bought this product three years ago, and have used it constantly, as it has great ability to measure vertically and standout distances. Only problemid=s the tape lock feature which faild after about 19 months usage

Great Features

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] When I first purchased this I expected to be like any other tape measure, but boy was I in for a delightful surprise. The width and clarity of the tape was incredible. I have a hard time seeing and when I got my fat max i couldn't believe it I could actually see and read the tape. I was so impressed I went and bought two more tapes, a 16' and a 25'. Great Product as usual.

Awesome

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Awesome easy to read and use well constructed and light wieght

Good and Bad

The good. Tough as nails and could survive a two-story drop. Nice wide and easily read tape with the additional attachment for hooking onto things. Pretty good tape stand-out. Relatively comfortable in a hand, but not as much as a 16 ft tape. The Bad. The auto lock feature worked for about 3 weeks before wearing out. Now is just sloowwwly retracts and never locks completely, ever. As far as I can tell the manual override only applies to retraction. The auto lock was good in theory, but wears o...

Stanley Fatmax autolock 25 ft tape measure

I specifically like the auto lock tape measures. While I like the 25 ft autolock tape measure, I like the 16 ft one THE BEST. I have 2 of the 25 ft autolock and I have to get a new 16 ft autolock from Lowes because someone took mine. They are strong and last a long time, and actually have a feature for lanyard attachment.Sta

Blade won't retract

Bought this for light home use 6 months ago and over the weekend I was putting up some shelves and in the middle of the project the blade became stuck out and won't go back in even with pushing. Total junk for a premium price. Luckily I had my old Stanley Powerlock to finish the job with. Took it back to home improvement retailer and they said they couldn't do anything for me. I'd have to take it up with Stanley.

Great design-poor quality

I purchased my Fat Max from Lowe's 2 weeks ago and finally had a chance to use it last week. I bought this model because of the new auto lock mechanism. While it is a neat design I had problems with the lock holding just a few days after beginning to use it. I tried to attach the framing hook but was unable to get it to connect. Since I wasn't going to be able to use it I thought I would at least store it in the space provided on the tape measure. That didn't work either as it kept falling ...

Fatmax, the only way to measure up!

Great tape measure! Love the auto lock, only tape I've used for the past five years!

buy it

Must have fallen off the roof 5 times and still works. very durable.

The blade I feel is thin compare to others, because mine bent and now I can't keep it up to get a measurement, it will fall when I extend it out.

Nice Tape

It's a nice tape measure however the auto lock doesn't work most of the time.

Only one thing

As a contractor I expect my tape to deliver performance every time I pull it out. This one does the job. It has great stand-out and I really like the auto lock. The one thing that could be better is the storage for the auxiliary hook. The provided storage isn't secure at all, and if I put it somewhere else I'll never see it again.