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Color Coding of Equipment For tool boxes and workshops where other people may be using the same kind of tools, one needs a method of keeping tools separated. I have been using color coding to help organize equipment in chemistry, physics and physical science labs for many years. Color coding is a great visual organizer as we all know. I have always used model paint enamel and just used a whittled down ice cream stick to paint color dots on all equipment that should stay at a particular station or toolbox. The ice cream sticks are easy to clean with the wipe of a paper towel and use over and over. If you run out of pure colors when marking different tool sets for different people then you can always use the same colors again but add a dot of a different color to the center of the already dry dot. This gives you two distinct color dots on each piece of equipment. Paint-dots work on all sizes of equipment. Locate the dots in a location on the tool that does not receive much wear from use. Judy has suggested the use of a dot and a stripe of a different color side by side. Using designs other than dots would make your equipment stand out. Another idea that will work well in some situations is to place colored plastic ties on the handles of tools and trim the excess. Colored plastic cable ties can be purchased at Harbor Freight and Lowe's. This idea I borrowed from a farm magazine. Credit goes to SAGE SPREE Boligee, Ala. Current colors being used by CTGMS are blue, green, yellow gold, dark red or burgundy and hot pink. My tools are coded with yellow dots. Jerry
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