I gave up getting more Starrett locally.
I made an inquiry with Axminster, and unfortunately they were not able to special order the items I wanted. Thanks a lot to Axminster for replying, great customer service. I did also send Starrett UK an email, but one week later I have not received an answer.
I ended up ordering from Lee Valley, a 150mm double square, and since the 100mm was on back order I justified UPS Express shipping with adding a premium 150mm combination square with forged head and (Pearl) chrome ruler.
So far so good, Lee Valley had excellent customer service, notifying me that they could not ship all batteries with the lights I ordered on the same order. Got the light shipped without dry cells, simple fix as AAA batteries is something I usually stock large quantities of [big grin]
UPS delivered in three days, impressed. Box was perfect on arrival.
Then, opening the Starrett boxes, well.. the double squares handle had marks, appeared to be light corrosion on the edges, not especially fresh looking. Then the combination square, the special washer that has ears which fit in the grooves of the head jammed itself with the bolt as the hole and grooves for the tabs on the washer where off center of each other. Making it jam when unscrewing and push the nut to release the ruler. Not good.
I had to file the grooves wider in order to not let the washer jam the locking bolt.
You can see on the (poor smartphone

) images below. See the one photo where the tabs are off center and touching the outer parts of the groove. The grooves themselves was much wider than on my other cast iron heads. It was really poor build quality and quality check.
Not what I expected on the “Premium” version [blink]
Anyhow, both squares are now in full working order, and the double square I wet sanded with 1200 wet sanding paper, so it looks as it should in the first place.
Looking really forward to using these.
And [member=44099]Cheese[/member] - Agreed: Somehow the cast heads seems nicer to hold. I just thought I might try a forged too. Next will be cast, with scriber - nice to have at hand with the square.
Thanks a lot for advising! [smile]
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