Rather than buy a $100 tool, I found some 6" x 9" x 8mil poly bags and am using them to sort stuff in my BOB. A straw inserted into them sucks out excess air and low-vacuum seals them.
How about some of the heavy vinyl used to make good quality canopies. I get scraps fro a local factory, and most are a couple square feet in different shapes. I have some long strips that are six inches wide. Heavy, mostly black pieces and reinforced. I'm looking for an old industrial sewing machine to make equipment covers, but I have a steady supply. I also get scraps of the heavy vinyl screening they make their dividers out of.
Nothing wrong with proper file handles. But I have a lot of files, maybe 50 to 75, and golf balls actually work well. I get the golf balls at garage sales at about 10 cents each. Drill a small hole in the golf ball and force the tang into it. A lot better than no handle. Try it before saying it is not reasonable.
Muriatic acid is also a great drain cleaner after using bleach for some odd weeks. Also, after you wash your car, using muriatic acid on the hub caps will give them such a shine that its like they will glow.
Like my 39 year old Xcelite 99SM roll tool kit? It's starting to dry out & crack, but it never turned to goo. I've had it since Augst '74 and carried it on service calls for over a decade. A lot of oil was put on those tools over the years.
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I guess it's what is in the oil. I have a Service Master kit, too, and most of two of their suitcase kits, and wouldn't trade them for the world. You and I must've gotten into the trade at the same time. My first (owned) one was around April of '74.
The only oil I ever got on my Xcelite tools was light non-detergent "turbine oil", like sewing machine oil, since that's the stuff used in most electronics. As you said truly enough, it never hurt it.
I've had peanut oil-based coolant wreck heavy vinyl in short order... and I've had canopy-canvas of the sort on golf cart rain huts go bad from exposure to regular high-detergent motor oil.
So I guess YMMV, depending upon the oil you get on it. It probably has to do with whether or not the oil and the plasticizers are co-solvents.
Anybody else want to guess how a high-sulfur cutting oil will affect vinyl? I'm still picking 'no good'.
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