[Shop-talk] Socket marking? (and a quick 'why?)

[DAVID MASSEY]

 How about getting a selection of aerosol paint cans and paint them different colors.  Sure the paint will wear off but not everywhere at the same rate and as long as there is some visible it will be doing its job.  If you use them frequently you will quickly learn what color is what size.  


 
Dave 

 
 
-----Original Message-----
To: Shop-talk at autox.team.net
Sent: Fri, Jul 24, 2020 10:49 am
Subject: [Shop-talk] Socket marking? (and a quick 'why?)

First, why do they not sell metric impactsockets sets with all sizes?  I just spend about an hour, with a chartto figure out what brand sockets, and extra ones I needed to make up afull set.

They don't even all skip the same sizes. Some skip 16mm, others 20mm etc.  I know that some sizes arethe same as sae, but what if I don't have an sae set?  Just wondering.

On to the REAL question.

All of my sockets sets that I have areawesome.  They aren't to fat to prevent getting into spaces, but don'tbreak when the gorilla (me) turns them.  HOWEVER, most of them arelosing their labeling.  I don't want to have to buy new sets thatare engraved, so I wanted some feedback on my options.

1-Sticker labels-do they last?  Iactually use colored tape on a few of my most standard sizes so I can quicklyfind them, but that needs to be re-applied every few years.

2-Markers?  Are there markers thancan write on these things that will last a while?  (If I have to rewrite them as it wears off, that isn't an issue, as long as it isn't toooften.) 

3-Manually engrave them. I have a dremelengraver.  Will that work without weakening the socket?  Anyother way to do it?

4- combination of 2 and 3?  Engravethen write over the number with a marker?

5- any ideas I missed?  

Thanks.


"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rationalbeing are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." RalphWaldo Emerson 
-Who is John Galt?_______________________________________________

Shop-talk at autox.team.net
Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html
Suggested annual donation  $12.96
Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/shop-talk http://autox.team.net/archive

Unsubscribe/Manage: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/shop-talk/dave1massey@cs.com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/shop-talk/attachments/20200724/e10553b4/attachment.htm>