Tip Learned Yesterday

Moonlite37 · Oct 13, 2018

I was in local hardware store and asked for a couple feet of every color insulated wire to mark my Hydraulic hoses. The young clerk showed me some pretty cable ties in all the pretty colors. I left feeling smarter and happy. Perhaps everybody already knew

300jk · Oct 13, 2018

Good tip. I also use colored wire to mark lines. Seems like a good idea !

JMS/.MN · Oct 13, 2018

If you run out of colors you can double up the ties, or leave some with a short tail.Anything to make a distinctive ID. Used that once on changing a hyd bank on a combine.

grizz02 · Oct 13, 2018

I use them on my hydraulic lines for remotes for different implements

504 · Oct 13, 2018

I used a label maker for rewiring a 36v golf cart,the problem with that was the paper labels do not stick to any dirt very good. I need to stock up on some other colors beside black.

Russ from MN · Oct 13, 2018

I have 4 colors of electrical tape.

jeffcat · Oct 13, 2018

At car shows you can buy all kinds of 7 inch multi color tywraps They come in colors and also Florencent colors too. Screaming orange, yellow, green, purple, majenta, and yellow. Here is a little bundle I keep in my tool box. Also come in those little tiny 4 inch ones too. Also check Ebay. Also what works well is a couple of cheap bottles of nail polish. Just a dab of a color and give it a couple of minutes to dry. The stuff is very tough. These little dabs on on the side of a storage rack.

john in la · Oct 13, 2018

A guy give me about a foot of telephone cable years ago.
All kinds of different color wires.

Mike(NEOhio) · Oct 13, 2018

You can get electrical heat shrink tubing in colors and large diameters from industrial suppliers (MSC, etc.).

Phil9N3667 · Oct 13, 2018

IH truck dealership I worked had a body shop and a telephone repairman would give them bundles of phone wire like mentioned above. Some had been damaged by lightning strikes and melted together!! Some even had different color tracers. Works good on hyd hoses and air lines.

Straw Boss · Oct 13, 2018

I use the multi-colored spiral chicken leg bands.
They come is a pack of 50 or so for just a few bucks.
They last forever in the sun and don't get in the way of anything.
Put one on the implement hose behind the male coupler and a matching color on the
tractor's hydraulic line leading up to the female coupler. Works really well.

DENNIS MIN · Oct 13, 2018

Russ,

Only 4?

D.

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