warmer wrenches!

[rusty1988]

okay this might be silly but i since i have little mechanical knowledge to contribute on here and i learn so much from you all i have to share the idea i had today...
i had to work on the truck a bit and it was COLD! only to get colder...and wrenches are cold, even with gloves on. oh and no garage of course.
i have one of those heating pad thingies they sell all rite aid or wherever for aches and pains so i plugged it in and laid the wrenches on it while i was working and it helped! took the edge off enough so my hands were functional.
thinking about it now maybe i should have put myself on it
okay so maybe i'm a wimp but hey, thought someone on here might appreciate it

 

[OLDBULL8]

Wrap the heating pad around your a$$ then put the wrenches in your back pocket. WALLA now both are warm. But that's a good idea you had.

 

[flareside_thun]

That is definitely creative.....

 

[f-two-fiddy]

What's Your Wife gonna say when She reaches for the Hot Pad and it's covered in 15/40?

Nice idea!

 

[Dieselcrawler]

as an equipment mechanic, i think that is a damn good idea. just need to find a heating pad in 12 volt.

 

[sassyrel]

as an equipment mechanic, i think that is a damn good idea. just need to find a heating pad in 12 volt.

use a ac/dc converter!!

 

[1994IDI]

Wrap the heating pad around your a$$ then put the wrenches in your back pocket.

 

[icanfixall]

Somebodies mind is working overtime.... What a great idea. Simple but just what a person needs sometimes....

 

[pennsylvaniabo]

maybe you should get a garage.....then the whole tool box is heated!!!

 

[rusty1988]

Wrap the heating pad around your a$$ then put the wrenches in your back pocket. WALLA now both are warm. But that's a good idea you had.

awesome

 

[trackspeeder]

I should try that idea.
Cold wrenches suck.

 

[icanfixall]

Calvin... So do hot wrenches... Even wearing heavy welding gloves I still had issues handleing hot wrenches working around the hot running boilers in the generating station. Some of the areas we needed to pass thru were so hot that we would leave melted boot footprints from our work boots on the metal walkways. When actually working in those high heat areas we got huge air horns and then water was sprayed into the suction side of them... You didn't sweat in those areas but your work clothes turned white from all the body salt you never felt sweating out of you... That was back in the mid 1980s when power generation took a backseat to nothing... We generated power at any cost....

 

[94turboidi]

I occasionally take a bottle torch and heat up the wrenches real quick before handling if my hands are already real cold, it helps alot.

 

[RLDSL]

as an equipment mechanic, i think that is a damn good idea. just need to find a heating pad in 12 volt.

You can get 12v heating pads and electric blankets at larger truck stops like these

I'm used to having the opposite problem around here where it gets too hot and have to dip my wrenches in a bucket of water to hold onto them

 

[Agnem]

use a ac/dc converter!!

12 volt would be better. Most inverters do not like inductive loads, which are what heating coils are. Ask my wife how she knows this.