Over at Amazon, today’s deal of the day item is Bosch’s DLR130K, which is on sale for just $59. Its street price is around $90.
Keep in mind that Bosch recently announced new slimmed-down laser measuring tools which are slightly less featured and with fewer buttons. For comparison purposes, the $50 Bosch GLM 15 is a lot smaller, but also a lot less featured, and has a shorter 50-foot range. The new GLM 35, with a 120 foot range and almost-comparable features, is priced at $80 (via Amazon).
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Measurement range is 130 feet, with 1/16″ accuracy, and you get 4 measurement modes: length, area, volume, and continuous. You can change units between inches, feet and inches, decimal feet, and metric. It also has both front and back reference points.
If you’re looking for a laser distance measuring tool on a budget, even if you didn’t know it until you saw this deal, act fast. The deal is only valid today, 5/28/2015, until 3am ET, unless supplies run out sooner.
Buy Now(via Amazon)
Compare: Home Depot, Lowes
Farid
Thanks for the heads up. That’s a pretty good deal.
Does anyone have any thoughts about the lack of back-light on this model?
Michael Quinlan
Great deal! I have the DRL165 and it’s great. I picked it up on clearance at Lowe’s several years ago for $82. I agree that newer, lower priced models have fewer features, but the feature of the DLR165 (and DLR130) that I appreciate most is that they use AAA batteries. Rechargeable, non-user-replaceable batteries seems to be the trend on the more full-featured models, but IMO this is a bad idea for tools. When I need to use a tool I can’t wait several hours for it to charge, and certainly don’t want to spend more time maintaining its charge that I do actually using it.
fred
I agree that for many hand-held instruments alkaline batteries would seem to be a logical choice. If you use the instrument very infrequently – you might pull the batteries out (avoids battery failure and leakage with corrosion of the contacts) and/or pull batteries from a fresh stock. As a practical matter I’ve experienced no problem with lion batteries in the Leica Distos we had. We’d pull the instrument and they always seemed to have enough charge to get us through the day – just as is. At the end of the use – we’d charge it up and put it away when charged. We might not pull one out again for several days (e.g. over holiday weekends) – maybe even longer – because we had spares for busy times – but I don’t recall anyone cussing them out for having a dead battery
Doug
Looks like they changed the price from $59 to $89 now
Farid
They sure did. For that price, I’d go for the GLM40. The Leica models look even more appealing at the moment…functionality wise.
Stuart
Not exactly. Looks like it sold out and defaulted to the next-cheapest price from a 3rd party seller.