Abstract: Electrical companies have more than just one fishtape, and some of those fishtapes are broken. Either the plastic handle is broken off or the metal tape is cut short and not the original length. The only other device of this kind that has a measuring device, it is on the handle. This has no purpose when the handle is broken off. As an electrician, it would be much easier to have the measurements marked on the tape, so you would know how long the metal tape is before you even begin. This again, eliminates wasted time.