How is a digital tape measure tested before it ships?

Durability
Accuracy
Choosing a Tool

A bench check tells you a tool works once; it says nothing about a tool that lives in a bag for years. A rig pulls the T1 Tomahawk's blade out and lets it retract around the clock, which is how you find the failure that appears at ten thousand cycles rather than at ten. That is the only testing that predicts anything useful about a working life.

What cycle testing catches

A rig pulls and retracts continuously
Runs around the clock
Finds failures at thousands of cycles
A bench check proves it works once
Matches how the tool is actually used

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A rig pulls the blade out and lets it retract, over and over, around the clock. Cycle testing like this is how you find the failure that shows up at ten thousand pulls rather than at ten, which is the only kind of testing that tells you anything about a tool meant to live in a bag for years.