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Saw a neat trick for tool marking at the tool crib in a shop up in Spokane
I was dropping off a package at a machine shop in Spokane last week and had to wait by their tool crib. The guy running it had a simple system I'd never seen. He used different colored electrical tape bands on the shank of each end mill to show its size. A single red band for a quarter inch, two for a half inch, and so on. He said it saved him from pulling tools out of the rack just to check the engraving, especially under the low light in that corner. He even had a little chart taped to the wall as a key. It's such a small thing, but it looked like it really sped up his job. Made me think about how we mark our own tools back at my place. Does anyone else use a color code system like that for their cutters?
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