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i wrench in a shop all day long, and let me tell you what works. Pink tools. My pocket knife is hot pink, my socket wrenches are dipped pink, and most of my p
by nimbius 5y ago
i wrench in a shop all day long, and let me tell you what works. Pink tools.
My pocket knife is hot pink, my socket wrenches are dipped pink, and most of my powertools have a flair of pink somewhere from a can of Krylon. Pink is natures danger color for the average nail swatter pounding monster energy and fried cake from the 7-11 at 4 AM. my job boxes are covered in unicorn stickers and rainbows.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThat only works because the people who'd steal your tools would steal them to use themselves. There's a reason every large facility that provides its own tools has a tool crib where they track who checked out what.
- jacquesm 5y agoAnd not just the tools, also the consumables. Endmills and such grow little legs as soon as they're out of the central depot. And that stuff really adds up.
- brk 5y agoI used to do a lot of product demos that involved network equipment. All the patch cables I carried were either pink or purple. They were never confused with customer cables, and I do not ever recall one of them being stolen.
- analog31 5y agoI'm a musician. I make my own cables, all green.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI’ve heard that pink cars are the least likely to be stolen.