- Location
- Scotland
Number rubbed off or worn smooth on a heap of spanners.
Is there a marker that will stick?
Is there a marker that will stick?
Is there a way to re-number spanners?
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suffolksmallholder
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- Location
- Suffolk
I like the colour coding concept.
In the past one could dismantle a Frod with two spanner sizes; 1/2” & 9/16”. So these were just more shiny.
Today anodised coloured is a great way as you simply have one colour for all your 16mm sockets & spanners as an example.
So perhaps nail varnish would work?
An engraving tool is another way but probably not cheap.
My workshop spanners live in order on de headed nail hooks above the work-bench. Similar the sockets.
SS
In the past one could dismantle a Frod with two spanner sizes; 1/2” & 9/16”. So these were just more shiny.
Today anodised coloured is a great way as you simply have one colour for all your 16mm sockets & spanners as an example.
So perhaps nail varnish would work?
An engraving tool is another way but probably not cheap.
My workshop spanners live in order on de headed nail hooks above the work-bench. Similar the sockets.
SS
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Never worn the numbers off a set of spanners!
Normally lose them.
How old are they?
Normally lose them.
How old are they?
- Location
- Sutton Coldfield
Are they too hard for number stamps?
- Location
- Huntingdon
some are printed on , a slight wiff of brake cleaner and you're in a muddle
number stamps or engraver
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tomlad
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- Location
- nr. preston
I bought a engraver , i think is correct name it recips rather than spins . I thought it would spin but i guess that's a die grinder.
Very happy with it . I think weither or not it would mark a spanner would be how hard, quality my tip is ???
Very happy with it . I think weither or not it would mark a spanner would be how hard, quality my tip is ???
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Dremel might do it. But I agree it's annoying. I used to be able to read mine if held at the correct angle in sunlight but even that doesn't work any more. I now have a vernier calipre hanging on a nail in the workshop.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Paint pen might do temporarily.
- Location
- Dorset/Wilts
1st world problems.....
Lincs Lass
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- Location
- north lincs
Tried that years ago ,,to stop other folks swiping them ,,didnt work , oil,muck gets under it and the tape falls off or it just gets roughed about
The chap who welded up my sheep handler marked it up with some sort of marker pen, and those marks are still clear as after a couple of years, so pens suitable must exist.
I go common sizes in one section of tool box, everything else in another. I'm no mechanic, but even I can tell the difference between a 13mm and a 19mm!!
I go common sizes in one section of tool box, everything else in another. I'm no mechanic, but even I can tell the difference between a 13mm and a 19mm!!
Also, when I clicked on this thread, I was hoping this was going to be about some elaborate prank to renumber someone's spanners to confuse them!!
They cant be that hard ,the sizes have worn off,they are probably a different size now to what they started out as,I could never get my head around Whitworth, thought they just did raisins and sultanas
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Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
Wondered about using a Dremel 1,4 and 7 no problem but numbers with round bits more difficult. Need to use Roman numerals so each number can be made using single cuts. Bu**er, the XIII ring has gone missing again.
- Location
- N.Lincs
Whitworth sizes were the diameter of the bolt, not the nut.
IIRC, 1/4" WHIT was nearly (but not quite) 1/2" AF (across flat).
tomlad
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- Location
- nr. preston
And 2 sizes of whit as the nut got smaller to save on steel. Its very simple 
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
Can you explain early 7/16ths UNC/UNF then, used to be 5/8ths on the bolt head and 11/16ths on the nut.And 2 sizes of whit as the nut got smaller to save on steel. Its very simple
Eventually did change to all 5/8ths .