BOSCH GR16 Aluminum Telescoping Rod

Probably the best quality you can buy although the coating finish was poor in places

funciona bien

Seems like a sturdy product so far. It's easy to use. The one thing I dislike is dust gets in it and it sometimes jams when closing. We use it for site leveling here in the desert and the dust blows quite a bit. I'll continue to use and see if it gets better.

Good quality, sturdy rod. Markings are easily read.

Works great if just using it go measuring, but when attaching a laser the black rubber ends get in the way. Can be annoying.

Good product, recommend that a carrying case be offered

It’s a grade rod. It does it’s job. Just be careful on windy days when fully extended, which is a no brained. Definitely worth buying. It measures in inches.

Does what it should.

It is well made. Has a useful feature in that the numbers on the back can be used to measure the height of a ceiling that is less than 16 feet by extending the smaller sections and reading the measurement on the back just above the bottom section. The grade rod seems sturdy enough to use in construction or surveying.

La calidad de los materiales está a la altura de lo que esperas de las herramientas y accesorios Bosch. Lo compre para usar con un nivel láser y un receptor láser de la misma marca. Como era de esperar funcionan en perfecta armonía.

For those of you, who have trouble making sense of how to use the measurements on the BACK of the rod, here is a quick explanation. Once you understand it, you’ll immediately know, when it will benefit you to use it, when the moment comes. As we know, the front of the rod shows the numbers starting from zero at the bottom of the rod, and it is intuitive and self-explanatory. You slide the extensions out to increase the ruler or measurement numbers on the rod. Done. The BACK, however, seems to make no sense if you just look at the numbers and there spacings. No, it was not a manufacturing or printing error. The reason is, that the back is NOT trying to simply be a reversed version of the front. But it rather is a completely different system for measuring. The BACK’s measurement numbers reflect the length of the rod in its current extended length. You have to start with the thinnest top extension, while the front starts with the thickest lowest extension first. The BACK can be used for measuring distances with the length of the rod by extending the rod (like the height from floor to ceiling, the height, width, depth, length of something, etc). You read the number on the extension, that is just about to disappear into the base of the rod. And that is the length of the rod at that moment and therefore the distance you just measured. You can test this by checking it with a measuring tape. And you’ll find that it is precise. Yes, by just looking at the numbers you’ll find it questionable how it could be accurate at all, but it is correctly reflecting the length of the rod. Reminder: DON’T make the mistake and extend the bottom extension as you would use it with the FRONT measurement and then simply turn it around and read the numbers on the BACK. Those are two different systems of measuring and are NOT synchronized. It would be nice if they were, but that would probably cause other complications. I hope this helps to understand the BACK side measuring system a little better. All the best, and be safe!

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Can get finnicky to use and get exact measurements when the laser is at the same height as one of the telescoping points. Doesn't happen often but when it does it's annoying.