Pierre Martins

I'm always pitting with a bunch of friends and I'm forever replacing missing spanners. Just splashed out on a new set of sockets and a set of those fancy expensive ring/flats with the ratchet on the ring side. So, who's got the best trick for marking spanners?

Thanks in advance,
Pierre.

928drvr86.5

Engrave each and every piece?

Ben Burris

86.5 Indischrot, AT. #1459

the flyin' scotsman

Pierre...........a wrap of electrical tape, colour of your choice is a real quick visual as to where your tools are at. Just be cautious that 'pit buddy' doesn't use the same hue!!!

Parnelli Joneser

Or you could go so far as to spray paint a stripe on each wrench. We do this to ensure that our three work trucks maintain the basic tool load without, say, all of the 18" wrenches end up in one truck.

heinrich

Whatever you put on, they will still disappear.

Pierre Martins

It's not about theft. Just looking for a system. These guys are my mates and we obviously don't steal from each other. It's just that at the end of a track day or race weekend I wanna make relatively sure most of my tools land up in my toolbox without having to be anally retentive about it, if you know what I mean.

After racing I wanna drink. F*&$ck the tools. The color coded insulation tape idea sounds like a good system.

Shane

Pierre, powder coat them. Doesn't come off and if done right will look pretty damn neat.

Thaddeus

When I ran a contracting business with subcontractors at the job site my tools would get legs and walk off... until I started spray-painting them 'hot pink'. The macho men wouldn't want a tool that was a girly color... and my tools stayed put thereafter.

Shane

Powder Coating site



Something I been meaning to do to my wrenches, but using red translucent instead of purple.

Scott M.

My dog marks things by pee'ing on them. Try that once and see of your mates want to touch 'em again.

Scott

DoubleNutz

Damn thats a GOOD IDEA. I'm gonna do it! Who does this for tools?

Shane

Any Powder Coater can do this.

Just don't use color tech out of Seattle those guys charged me damn near three hundred for my intake and it didn't come out any better than what I had done myself up here. I'm still pissed about that one.

Pierre Martins

Okay, I'm gonna drink neon orange dye and have a whizz in my toolbox! Who wants royalties on that?

CWO4Mann

Columbia Coatings has a very high rating among local wrenches here in the Nashville area. They are about 30 miles from us and I have been there a couple of times to buy powder. Always helpful and very nice folks.

Cheers,

Dave