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The Anatomy of Custom Tally Books

Workers in oilfields and gas fields use

Custom Full Color Imprint on Tally Books
Custom Full Color Imprint on Tally Books

to keep track of their tasks.

  • What time did we add another length of pipe to the drilling rig?
  • What size was the pipe?
  • What was the pressure setting on the drilling rig?
  • How much fuel do we have left?

These workers need a rugged book to record these measurements. Tally books need these features:

  1. A waterproof vinyl cover that is also abrasion resistant
  2. At least 100 pages
  3. A size that can fit in a shirt pocket or back pants pocket
  4. Waterproof paper, called “stone”, is also a good idea. It is also tear-resistant.
  5. Lines on the pages, to keep data in an orderly fashion
  6. A pen loop attached to the vinyl cover, to keep your writing instrument close at hand
  7. An inside vinyl pocket to keep business cards and special notes
  8. Important phone numbers printed on the vinyl cover
  9. Your company logo printed on the front, in full color
  10. Optional clear vinyl sleeves to contain special papers
  11. Important conversion tables printed on the cover (either outside or inside)

Why We Love Promotional Maglites (And You Should, Too!)

Why We Love Promotional Maglites
Why We Love Promotional Maglites

The flashlights that are popular around the world, Promotional Maglites, occupy a special place in our hearts. Here are our best reasons:

  • When we walk in the neighborhood at night, they protect us from dangers like traffic, uneven sidewalks, and randomly placed dog waste.
  • Maglites advertise our business to our customers.
  • They carry our logo almost forever.
  • Their fine quality reflects the quality of our business services and products.
  • Our customers appreciate us because we care enough to give the best flashlight made.
  • Maglites are made in the USA.

The Most Popular Promotional Maglights

Maglites come in many different sizes and colors. Some have incandescent bulbs,

The Most Popular Promotional Maglights
The Most Popular Promotional Maglights

and some have LED bulbs. Here are the top sellers:

Mag-Lite Promotional Products K3A MagLite® Solitaire Flashlight

The K3A is the most economically-priced of all the promotional Maglights. Sometimes they are on sale for only $7.94. That fits into most budgets for appreciation gifts. It does come with an alkaline battery and a carry strap. There’s no need to wrap this one up as a present. It already comes with a permanent hard plastic hinged gift box.

2aaled-red.jpg 2AALED Mini MagLite® LED Flashlight

The other popular one has an LED bulb and 2 AA batteries. It puts out an extreme amount of light for its size. LED flashlights are often requested by business owners who want to give a high quality gift to their employees.

8 People That Would Love to Receive an Architect Scale Ruler With Your Logo

Architect At Work Using an Architect Scale Ruler
Architect At Work Using an Architect Scale Ruler

If you are thinking of giving a useful gift to some of your customers, here are some ideas. These are the people who would love to get an architect scale ruler from you, with your company logo.

  1. Architect
  2. Kitchen Designer
  3. City Planner
  4. Engineer
  5. Contractor
  6. Builder
  7. Draftsman
  8. Construction Estimator

All of these people design or read blueprints in the course of their daily work. An architect scale ruler is a necessity for measuring the size of objects on the blueprint. It is used in the office and at the job site.

If your company needs to advertise to the people on this list, then you need to order architect scale rulers with your logo permanently engraved.

5 Answers to Your Questions About Getting a Maglite Engraved With Your Logo

When business owners think about giving a Maglite engraved with their logo to their employees, here are their top questions:

Giving a Maglite Engraved With Your Logo
Giving a Maglite Engraved With Your Logo
  1. Can I get a Maglite in my corporate color? The K3A comes in 8 different colors. Probably one of them will correspond with your corporate color. Many other models come in colors other than the basic black, blue, gray and red.
  2. Does it have a lifetime warranty? Maglite used to offer a lifetime warranty, but that stopped about 2019. Now it appears that they handle warranty questions one at a time on their website, using a form. They don’t have a written warranty posted on their website as of today.
  3. Does the imprint wear off? The laser engraved imprint is permanent. Your company logo will last forever. The laser burns through the colored outer layer, and into the aluminum barrel.
  4. What does laser engraving cost? The price of engraving is included in the price of the Maglite. There is a setup charge.
  5. How is the flashlight packaged? Each Maglite engraved with your logo comes in a hard plastic hinged presentation box, with a velvet covered cradle. So your customer or employee will be thrilled to see their favorite flashlight in a unique gift box.

7 Diameter Tape Measure Tips For the Pros

If you are already a user of a diameter tape measure, these tips are for you.

Tips on Using a Diameter Tape Measure
Tips on Using a Diameter Tape Measure
  1. Keep it clean. If you keep sand and dirt from inhabiting your tape, it will look good longer and last longer.
  2. Line it up straight on the pipe. If you put the tape on a little crooked, you will get an erroneously high reading.
  3. Clean the pipe. This makes sure that surface contaminants aren’t interfering with your measurement.
  4. Use a felt tip marker to mark common measurements directly on the tape. Don’t be a hero. This tip will make your job easier.
  5. Put your name on it. Valuable and handy tools have a way of walking away.
  6. Buy only the best pipe diameter tape measure. Lufkin is a trusted brand name.
  7. Keep one in every location that you work (and leave it there). I keep one in the office, my shop, my tool box, and in all my vehicles and boat. A diameter tape doesn’t measure only diameters. The other side is a regular inch tape (or metric tape). So it comes in handy many times.

Please post your own tips in the comments here. I’d be interested in what you come up with. Thanks.

Become an Expert at Using a Pipe Diameter Tape Measure in 5 Minutes!

If you need to find the diameter of a pipe or a pipeline, here’s a 5 minute crash course..

Using a Pipe Diameter Tape Measure
Using a Pipe Diameter Tape Measure
  1. Buy a pipe diameter tape measure.
  2. Notice that one side is probably just a regular inch tape measure.
  3. The other side is also in inches, but it seems to be stretched out about 3 times longer than normal. It’s actually stretched out by a factor of pi (3.14159). This is the diameter tape side.
  4. Use the diameter tape side for this lesson.
  5. Clean off the pipe of any dirt or other debris.
  6. Simply wrap the tape around the pipe, keeping the diameter side out, so you can read it.
  7. Note where the zero mark lines up on the tape. That gives you the outside diameter of the pipe.
  8. It may be hard to read the markings. They are probably not marked the same as a regular tape. They may be in 64ths of an inch or 100ths of an inch. Either way, you have just learned how to use a diameter tape!
Can I help, too?
Can I help, too?