Classic Car Tools: Marking Sockets
Mark SimpsonDescription
Older sockets and wrenches often use small type to designate size, making them difficult to read in dim light or with aging eyes. Here’s a tip to put the right tool in your hands a little faster.
Here's a quick tip to help speed things up in the shop. If you got a set of gear wrenches or ratcheting wrenches like this, you never know exactly which side is on and which side is off. Take a sharpie mark on. Now, the next time you grab it, you'll know same goes for sockets. Some of these have typed so small, you can't really see them, just mark the size of your socket in sharpie after it dries, it'll stay on there for a while and you'll know exactly that size comes off. Just remark it again.
Once you engrave them paint the engraving. You can use any color you like. Also some fuel proof decals work well too (like used for gas R/C planes).
While I really appreciate the information from this website overall, some of the teaching here is pretty amateur. This one is the worst. While marking things is a great idea, a sharpie is a very temporary solution at best. After one use most of these marks will be gone. Give us something we can use please.
As soon as you get a little oil on there the Sharpie markings disappear. I've tried engraving with an engraving pen as well. Permanent but still hard to read.