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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I can find most of the common sizes by sight (looking down into the end of the socket) – especially if they’re in the case in order. So I normally select and then just look at the markings to check. A few are a bit knocked about – and I recognise those without looking closely, as old friends from the battles we’ve been through together!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Neil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net> <b>On Behalf Of </b>eric@megageek.com<br><b>Sent:</b> 24 July 2020 16:50<br><b>To:</b> Shop-talk@autox.team.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [Shop-talk] Socket marking? (and a quick 'why?)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>First, why do they not sell metric impact sockets sets with all sizes? I just spend about an hour, with a chart to figure out what brand sockets, and extra ones I needed to make up a full set.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>They don't even all skip the same sizes. Some skip 16mm, others 20mm etc. I know that some sizes are the same as sae, but what if I don't have an sae set? Just wondering.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>On to the REAL question.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>All of my sockets sets that I have are awesome. They aren't to fat to prevent getting into spaces, but don't break when the gorilla (me) turns them. HOWEVER, most of them are losing their labeling. I don't want to have to buy new sets that are engraved, so I wanted some feedback on my options.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>1-Sticker labels-do they last? I actually use colored tape on a few of my most standard sizes so I can quickly find them, but that needs to be re-applied every few years.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>2-Markers? Are there markers than can write on these things that will last a while? (If I have to re write them as it wears off, that isn't an issue, as long as it isn't too often.) </span><br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>3-Manually engrave them. I have a dremel engraver. Will that work without weakening the socket? Any other way to do it?</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>4- combination of 2 and 3? Engrave then write over the number with a marker?</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>5- any ideas I missed? </span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>Thanks.</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br><br>"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph Waldo Emerson <br>-Who is John Galt?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>