We all spill and sadly guys we are adults now and Mom is not there to clean it up for us. But more to the point, how many times have you griped over the cost of “Super Clean” or another related clean up products. Spilling fluid of any kind on the garage floor is still best handled with kitty litter. It works better than any commercial absorber and doesn’t have any dust in it.
Draping a sheet or towel over your workbench area when working on something small with lots of parts that could scatter will help you to find them more easily. Leave the material loose and lumpy instead of smooth, and anything that gets dropped or falls will sit in the material instead of rolling off the bench and into a dark crevice.
Not exactly rocket science in this day and age, but wrapping tape around a drill bit at a pre measured length makes an easy depth-gauge point to stop drilling.
If you have to hold a nut where your fingers can’t reach and the tape trick with a socket or box wrench won’t fit either, a dab of grease on the end of a standard screwdriver will hold the nut in place and is slim enough to get the nut where it’s needed.
I recently acquired upright vacuum cleaner bags at a rummage sale for a quarter…
…I cut each bag in half, and now have 12 filters for my shop vac for two bits.
It was such a good idea I felt like I was stealing!
