dullpain
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- Joined
- Aug 2, 2000
- Messages
- 511
- Location
- Middle Tennessee
- Tractor
- Kubota M5700 4 WD w/ FEL, Kioti CK4010SE HST, 21' Flatbed Gooseneck Trlr.
escavader- Used label maker for drawers, too many drawers, too little brain/memory. Look at pic for wrench storage. Came from Sears, hard plastic bottom rail with self adhesive tape to stick to bottom of drawer, dense/hard foam with slots to store wrenches. Really helps keep em straight (if you put em back) and visible as they are tilted up at about a 25 deg. angle. Don't know if you can tell in pic but all my tools that have the size engraved (3/8 , 1/2 , 3/4 , etc.) are orange in color. Neat trick I came up with last winter just fiddling around in shop. I have a propane heater in shop, lay the wrenches, sockets, or whatever on the heater for a few minutes until good and warm. Use a orange grease pencil (I use white on black wrenches) and it will melt right into the engraved/embossed size marking. let cool, wipe or scrape off excess when cool. Much easier to see and identify. May be lot of work but the wife don't come to the shop, and that's more fun than being in the house and her finding me something else to do!!! I'm a tool junkie too. The new laser etched , large size markings on Craftsman tools now are nice, but I can't afford to replace all I have with the new fancy stuff.
