Slow day here, finally had time to clean 30 years of oil and dirt off my sockets
Sorry, I'm still learning to read sheet music. Let me get my glasses...
Oh, awesome! I can smell the WD-40 from here!
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Lol.
Half the time that I take one of my sockets off of its plastic peg, it ends up disappearing forever. (The same thing happens to drill bits.) If one day I do find it, that will be because I'm looking for a metric one and the one I find is imperial or vice versa.
My dad's solution is to keep all his sockets loose in a bucket. He can't lose track of a socket that he wasn't keeping track of.
Makes sense
Bet that was a relaxing activity.
It actually was. It snowed here in the Vancouver area, which is rare, so was watching the snow fall and wiping and sorting. Very chill afternoon.
If you want them to look like they just came out of the factory, get an ultrasonic cleaner and the degreaser concentrate. I bought one a while back and decided to clean some 1/10 scale RC car parts in it since I was trying to get all the grease out of the nooks and crannies and even a toothbrush was having a difficult time with it.
The parts came out looking brand new, like I had just pulled them out of their original packaging.
Can see it now; Honey A. Mad Hatter says we need an ultrasonic cleaner... :)
Bucket and dish soap?
Pan and marinara sauce
Amateurs, put it in a dishwasher.
We had left over 75% alcohol wipes from COVID times. They degrease well and easy to scrunch into a socket. Bucket might have been easier.
Spent a few weeks organizing mine last winter. They were all a giant collection of sets that were inherited from family friends, garage sales and where ever else. Built out a small kit of metric and SAE of different makes and made a little socket holder with wood dowels to organize them all. Made the wood dowels with wood spun into a die cutter to make a rough round dowel, then cut to length on a wood strip to fit in the drawer of small tool box. Made three sets and placed them at the cottage, garage and tool shed ... while I keep my main set with my tool kit. I have no idea why I need complete socket sets everywhere but having access to them everywhere comes in handy all the time.
Awesome. Because you never know when you need your sockets :)