Wrench Racks - Warning

[Merkava_4]

They will bond themselves to the PVC non-skid liners that come with the Snap-on boxes. If you don't have PVC liners - nevermind.

One day last week I thought I would rearrange my wrench drawer. When I went to remove the Wrench Racks, they were as if someone sprayed them down with contact adhesive; they had bonded themselves to the drawer liner.

I tried to gently remove them, but some of the liner came up with them. How could this happen? Probably something to to with the garage being 110F inside and the material of the liners.

Wrench Racks used to come with 7/8"D x 3/16" thick open cell high density foam rubber pads underneath, but for some strange reason, the Wrench Rack company decided to quit using them!

 

[nissan_crawler]

Hmm, my Craftsman ones don't do that.

 

[NOMAD]

I'm switching to wrench rolls.

 

[tatra]

i use springs to hold mine in place and wind up with max. use of the storage space............you do have to do a little streching of the seperate coils for each wrench in some case but it is pretty slick once set up..............

 

[72chevy]

i use springs to hold mine in place and wind up with max. use of the storage space............you do have to do a little streching of the seperate coils for each wrench in some case but it is pretty slick once set up..............

Interesting.
Since you brought it up.... got Pics, and source?

 

[Flash21]

They will bond themselves to the PVC non-skid liners that come with the Snap-on boxes. If you don't have PVC liners - nevermind.

One day last week I thought I would rearrange my wrench drawer. When I went to remove the Wrench Racks, they were as if someone sprayed them down with contact adhesive; they had bonded themselves to the drawer liner.

I tried to gently remove them, but some of the liner came up with them. How could this happen? Probably something to to with the garage being 110F inside and the material of the liners.

Wrench Racks used to come with 7/8"D x 3/16" thick open cell high density foam rubber pads underneath, but for some strange reason, the Wrench Rack company decided to quit using them!

Thanks Merkava_4 for the heads up. Can you share a link to the kind of wrench racks you are using?

Thanks
Kevin

 

[PoorOwner]

that's strange it looks like my wrench rack is just regular plastic, why would it bond to the PVC? Maybe a thin layer of PAM or something to make the non stick

I use those liners with square holes and it seems to be fine.

 

[RickP330]

Probably something to to with the garage being 110F inside

Hey,
You mean S/O dosen't make air conditioners LOL! Sorry Couldn't resist - I'm checking mine tonight....
RickP

 

[Merkava_4]

Can you share a link to the kind of wrench racks you are using?

This is the manufacturer of the racks here:
http://www.protoco.com/auto.html

And this is the manufacturer of the 1" x 1/4" open cell foam tape I'm going to remedy the situation with:
http://www.permatite.com/sponges.php?page=Dortite

I'm just going to make 1 x 1 inch foam squares out of that tape to become foam feet for each rack.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I bet the Snap-on wrench racks don't do this.

Merkava, what were you thinking?

 

[Merkava_4]

They are Snap-on wrench racks; they have "Blue-Point" molded right into the plastic.

I plan on sending an email to Protoco and asking them to please go back to the foam feet.

 

[RickP330]

I bet the Snap-on wrench racks don't do this.

Ohhh, I 4got to check....

RickP

 

[RickP330]

Hey,
I am using these:

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item...02&group_ID=76&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog

While they were stuck to the PVC liner they pulled right up W/O any damage. I noticed you said you were using S/O racks, but then you posted a link to some other type of rack. What are you using?
RickP

 

[Merkava_4]

I'm using the same kind in your link. Snap-on doesn't make the racks; they're made by Protoco, which also makes the same racks for Cornwell, MAC, SK, and Matco. Protoco has a separate injection mold for each customer they make them for.