P-Touch Label maker, went a little overboard!

[djkeev]

Heck yeah!! I've been in label mode for awhile!

Dave

 

[PCO6]

Don't forget to label the wife, the son, and the dog.

That reminds me of the guy who pulled out his wallet to show his friend some pictures and said ... "This is my wife and this is my dog. Sorry - THIS is my wife and this is my dog."

 

[cactiki]

Someone mentioned magnetic labels.... I bought a roll of 1/2" wide magnet strip, I made a bunch of magnetic labels for my drawers in my work van, so I can change my mind !

 

[jjjrmx5]

If you can't remember what tools are in what dwrs, then it's time to give up your tools.

As for lableling the coffee tubs full of fasteners, sure.

No lablels on my tool boxes unless they are shared or company provided and others need to know where things are.

I can drink a half barrel of beer in an afternoon and still point out or remember where the hell the hammers are and in which dwr. F&^k.

If not, I'm sure they're and app for that. Don't need no stinking lablels.

LOLOLOLOL.

 

[admranger]

Rolling Thunder, I used a label maker too and am quite happy with the results. On the tool and storage bins, though, I used clear tape-

I have several identical drawers so labels really help. Quite useful too when friends are around to help.

Andy

I spy some AN fittings in the yellow bins! Did those yellow bins come out of a stanley briefcase style storage case? My cases now hold things like ratchet straps, etc. while the yellow bins ended up in one of my Lista cabinets.

 

[Sureshot]

I think this was my guys way of telling me I was a little carried away with the labeling.

I like the clear tape over colors for a clean look. Just took delivery of 6 various size and colour tape rolls.

 

[ckadams00]

Everyone already said all the stuff I was gonna say.

 

[softailgarage]

Were we feeling a little Obsessive Compulsive today?

 

[abstamaria]

Boxes

I spy some AN fittings in the yellow bins! Did those yellow bins come out of a stanley briefcase style storage case? My cases now hold things like ratchet straps, etc. while the yellow bins ended up in one of my Lista cabinets.

I recall those yellow boxes were tackle boxes, admranger, but I removed the covers. I put together and maintained vintage racing cars as a hobby for a long while and needed all those AN fittings.

Andy

 

[abstamaria]

Were we feeling a little Obsessive Compulsive today?

Haha, yes, definitely. Add a touch of forgetfulness and probably ADHD, and those labels are necessary. For me definitely.

Seriously, there was another thread that split the forum into labelers and non-labelers. It's quite obvious GJ members don't work the same way, and that's a good thing.

Enjoy your garages.

Andy

 

[Moose02]

I'll give you $15.00 cash shipped when you are done so it won't be a complete loss for you. You could label the box you ship it in as a parting label.

 

[Drew_flux]

Thats not that bad,wait till you have to do a tool room.Our tool room at work took 5 refills and three days.

 

[carhunter]

Finally, someone else who hoards red Folgers coffee cans! I've felt so alone!!

I haven't found a use for mine yet, but the wife recently stole half of them for seeding pots for her garden.

Do you also collect tin cans? I find Progresso soup tasty, and the large cans are useful around the garage. But when I started choosing your soup by the size of the can rather than the flavor, it may be the sign of a problem

 

[JimVonBaden]

I did a similar thing recently. It really helps when friends come over to work on their bikes and I don't have to tell them where to go every time.

Jim

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

I thought I was the only one with that mouse pad. I think your use of it as art is better than my use of it as a mouse pad.

If I remember right it was left in the garage when we bought the house. So I tucked it away until I had something to do with it! Didnt realize it was a mouse pad, thought it was just a decoration!! :?)

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

I have a smaller P-Touch that I got from Costco when they had it on sale. All the software is built-in, you just plug it into your computer and type in the label you want. I've used it to label all my totes, both in the garage and ones we use in the house for filing, etc. They're great little labelers. I haven't had to buy any refills for it yet.

I saw those when I was looking but wanted a self contained unit.

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

I want to come play in your shop....Looks great wish I was that organised or at least had that many coffee cans

Your welcome over anytime!!! Here's a thread of the whole garage!

http://garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132992&highlight=geerage

 

[nisreo]

Heck yeah!! I've been in label mode for awhile!

Dave

Did you actually label each of your sockets? I envy your free time.

 

[mixxmstrmike]

Someone mentioned magnetic labels.... I bought a roll of 1/2" wide magnet strip, I made a bunch of magnetic labels for my drawers in my work van, so I can change my mind !

Magnets allow me to re-organize my tool drawers when the "ratchet" drawer mysteriously becomes "crowded" with too many... ratchets!

Big fan of labels, that's for sure. Saves me precious time trying to look for things when working on projects with my boys.

-Mike

 

[abstamaria]

Djkeev, don't the labels come off the sockets? There is another thread here on painting the markings on the sockets (painting then wiping off the paint on the surface of he socket, leaving the the paint in the engraved markings), which works better I think.

Black letters on clear tape give an OEM appearance, I think:

 

[mixxmstrmike]

Black letters on clear tape give an OEM appearance, I think:

Definitely agree with you there, but do they make a label with different colored letters with clear tape? Some of my cabinets are black.

Love your garage, by the way.

-Mike

 

[abstamaria]

Thanks, Mike. Some brands have white letters on clear tape. That might look good on black cabinets.

Andy

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

Have you labelled the label maker?

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

Finally, someone else who hoards red Folgers coffee cans! I've felt so alone!!

I haven't found a use for mine yet, but the wife recently stole half of them for seeding pots for her garden.

Do you also collect tin cans? I find Progresso soup tasty, and the large cans are useful around the garage. But when I started choosing your soup by the size of the can rather than the flavor, it may be the sign of a problem

I have more!!! No Tin stuff though.

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

I'll give you $15.00 cash shipped when you are done so it won't be a complete loss for you. You could label the box you ship it in as a parting label.

Sorry No Sale! Its my favorite new tool

 

[djkeev]

Did you actually label each of your sockets? I envy your free time.

Um, yes I did. Free time or time "stolen" from other projects?!?

It was a frenzy of organization for about a week afte getting my Hansen organizers.
Also the large socket labels help older eyes see the correct socket quickly.

Dave

 

[djkeev]

If you can't remember what tools are in what dwrs, then it's time to give up your tools.

As for lableling the coffee tubs full of fasteners, sure.

No lablels on my tool boxes unless they are shared or company provided and others need to know where things are.

I can drink a half barrel of beer in an afternoon and still point out or remember where the hell the hammers are and in which dwr. F&^k.

If not, I'm sure they're and app for that. Don't need no stinking lablels.

LOLOLOLOL.

Hmmm, you are either very young with the wonderful arrogance of youth, or you are older but very entrenched in the "routine" of every day use.

Congrats to you either way on such good memory skills, many of the rest of us "below" average and older folks need a Little visual memory jog to make us more efficient.

It doesn't make us correct, nor does it make you any better than us for knowing where your tools are when stone drunk! BTW, a traditional Barrel of beer is 50 gallons, I'd PAY to see you drink 25 gallons of beer in an afternoon! . If you meant half a Keg, well a Keg Is 15 1/2 gallons, that would be only 7 3/4 gallons of beer for an afternoon, still, a remarkable feat!

BTW as mentioned, it helps a lot when others use our stuff, they can not only find it, but........and more importantly, they can put stuff back in the correct spot when they are done!

Dave

 

[Capt Chrysler]

OCD? any one ever put labels on my tool box will be sorry!

But I do like them under the coffee cans!

Hum, maybe I'm OCD???

Looks nice!


Capt. CHRYSLER

 

[sarge97]

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!! I'm getting ready to crazy labeling the wiring under my motor home if I can find labels that can take the beating.

 

[JimVonBaden]

Did mine last week!

Silver on silver doesn't photograph well, but you get the idea!

Jim

 

[mikegt4]

About every 5 or so years the MBA's in charge at work go wild with their "5S" idealogy and we have to label everything similar to pictures on this thread. Imagine people making $200k a year with "pencil", "stapler" and "mousepad" labels on their desk. No wonder that US businesses are in such decline.

 

[abstamaria]

The first label maker

We mustn't forget the Dymo label maker. The original GT40s used them to label their switches.

Here is the only remaining Gerber bottle with a Dymo embossed label from a set I used to store fasteners in. That's from probably 1970 or so, some 40 years old now.

 

[mixxmstrmike]

Man... great thread!

I've got white letters on clear coming in tomorrow. I'll post up some pictures when I label my black CMan boxes. I finally labeled my Lista box. I'll snap up a few pictures of that as well.

That Dymo label brings me back to 3rd grade. I didn't have a strong enough grip to fully emboss those letters so my labels would always come out "blurry!"

-Mike

 

[abstamaria]

About every 5 or so years the MBA's in charge at work go wild with their "5S" idealogy and we have to label everything similar to pictures on this thread. Imagine people making $200k a year with "pencil", "stapler" and "mousepad" labels on their desk. No wonder that US businesses are in such decline.

If you indeed had people doing that, you would indeed be in trouble. But I doubt if anyone would be so stupid.

Labels do have their utility. I work on old cars and need three sets of wrenches and sockets - metric, standard (inches), and whitworth (my 1948 MG TC needs that). If I worked on my cars everyday, I might remember where things go, but I don't as this is only a hobby for me. So labels, even for my tools, help. Yes, especially when a friend comes to help.

For fasteners, electrical terminals, supplies, etc., these new label makers are Godsend.

My best,

Andy

 

[bugnout]

Re: The first label maker

Whats the label for. You can see whats inside the Jar!!!

(I guess you could argue that its so you know what was in the jar after you empty it.)

We mustn't forget the Dymo label maker. The original GT40s used them to label their switches.

Here is the only remaining Gerber bottle with a Dymo embossed label from a set I used to store fasteners in. That's from probably 1970 or so, some 40 years old now.

 

[abstamaria]

I'll look for the white on clear tape to rlace those red on white labels in the photo, Mike.

Andy

 

[abstamaria]

Re: The first label maker

Whats the label for. You can see whats inside the Jar!!!

(I guess you could argue that its so you know what was in the jar after you empty it.)

True, Bugnout. Also, "Bolts" is so generic as to be useless. I wonder what I was thinking then, but that was 40 years ago!

Andy

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

Re: The first label maker

We mustn't forget the Dymo label maker. The original GT40s used them to label their switches.

Here is the only remaining Gerber bottle with a Dymo embossed label from a set I used to store fasteners in. That's from probably 1970 or so, some 40 years old now.

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I still one of those somewhere around the house!!

 

[twincam00]

thats alotta coffee cans

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

Man, I'd love to have a set of metal organizers like those Griot ones but they are pricey as hell. I keep checking CL for them used, but I never find any. Anyone know a secret source for them that won't break the budget?