All hilarity aside, the plastic coating that is applied to the rule is trouble.
If you are going to get a Johnson square make sure it has a stainless rule instead of the plastic coating.
Reason I say this is a month or two back I purchased a little six inch square with the plastic coating for use on an inhouse project and got used maybe a half dozen times before set aside in a toolpouch.
I say this so you’ll know it wasn’t bounced around in the back of a truck in a toolbox left open in the rain kind of thing.
This morning I started sorting and cleaning up tools and ended up WDing all the random tools that get moved about waiting for a degree of organization to finally consume them.
Thus I started looking more closely at the hand tools and noticed the peculiar rust squiggles beginning underneath the plastic coating on that new small 6 inch square.
I mean it is underneath the plastic coating and the plastic coating is intact over it.
Last time I recalled that was on the ’73 to ’75 year Chevy trucks that had the recycled Jap steel in them and nothing you could do would stop the rust as it was rusting from the inside of the metal out.
So now the jaded part of me is saying that Johnson plastic coats the rules just to make them look pretty for purchase potential and now here a few months later the tool is rusting from the inside out.
I’m half tempted to see if I could find some old stock still hanging on the shelves in the bigboxes to see if there is the same rusty squiggle lines forming on them also.
Suckers got me again, another cheap tool unknowingly purchased.
friggin’ seeyou invented plastic coating
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So you got a little lesson in the efficacy of condoms.
Rez
Someone walked off with my Starrett square so I stoped into Menards and bought one of those cheap plastic coated squares. I didnt know it was coated when I bought it but found out soon afterwords!
As soon as I had the chance to replace it with another Starrett I gladly passed it off on some unsuspecting helper.
I'd suggest you do the same. <G>
Doug