PSA: Watching a machinist set up his table at a trade show in Denver fixed my tool indexing

I was at the Denver Build Expo last month and stopped to watch an old guy set up his drafting table. He marked every 3 inches with a sharpie on the edge and it saved him 10 minutes per layout. Has anyone else tried marking your rulers or tables like that?

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elliot_harris255d ago

Watch a guy with a sharpie and suddenly you're doing permanent marker calligraphy on all your tools. Next thing you know you'll be timestamping your lunch breaks with a tape measure.

garcia.miles5d ago

Same thing happened to me at work last month. One of the older guys showed me how he labels his socket sets with color coded dots using a paint marker and now I'm over here writing the date on every box of screws that comes through. It's a slippery slope for sure. Pretty soon I had my whole tool chest looking like a scrapbook project with all these little notes and arrows everywhere. Now I can't leave a single tool unmarked even if I know I'll never lose it.