[papercreters] Re: Preventing Tool Theft

You have to wash an invisibility cloak?

How could you see if it was dirty anyway?

Ohhhhhh I get it ... it started to stink didn't it?

Wore it too many times on hot sunny days, didn't you? It got all funky!!!

You realize, of course, that you have given away the flaw in your cloaking technology to allow someone to find you.

Clearly the way to defeat someone wearing an invisibility cloak is with a bloodhound. They'll nab that smelly secretive culprit every time.

We're on to you now buddy. You can't hide anymore.



As far as peel and stick tool labels, I don't think they'd be difficult to remove at all.

We are talking about tools, after all. The easy way to remove labels would be with a grinder, wire brush wheel, or with a paint stripper wheel spinning in a drill. The peel and stick label, no matter how well attached can sealed onto the tool won't stand a chance.

Furthermore, the crook would be polishing up the tools to make them all clean and purdy to fetch the highest resale price.

Etching or engraving seems to me to be the best way to go.




I do like your idea of GPS tracking a tool box. Someone mentioned earlier about storing tools in a trailer so that when they went travelling, they could rent a U-Store-It space and park their tools there. Lojacking that trailer would make a lot of sense.

As far as power goes, a solar panel would be cool, but may not be necessary. Just tap power off the power cord for cordless tool battery chargers. It shouldn't be too difficult to find a way to hide that connection in such a way that it won't get noticed.

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Blake Robertson <blake@...> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, and thanks for the humorous welcome :-)
>
> Errmm... well, I did have an invisible cloak, but I lost it in the wash. I
> think. I had it, I washed it, and then it just wasn't there anymore -
> possibly it was water soluble. Not sure.
>
> I had another idea about putting identification marks on/into tools - print
> up identifying labels, clean the tools, apply the label then coat it in
> varnish. In theory (I think, anyway...) the varnish coating should make it
> quite time consuming to 'de-label' the tool and thus reduce it's
> attractiveness to would be thieves.
>




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