[Milsurplus] [ARC5] Bry Carling

[Hubert Miller]

I am sure I bought those at Staples store when we still had them in this small city. Now gone.
I bought both quite small white ones, like you might think would be used with jewelry or crafts items, like real "price tags". Then some larger ones about 2+3/4  x  1+1/4 inches.
You can get them with string tie, or tag with no string at all, or bare tie wire. I wouldn't recommend the wire ties as the wire I fear may abrade some surfaces. The string
on the "price tag" type is wimpy and the writing area too small for most uses. Use the "industrial ones" instead.
I  had even thought of using my label maker to make labels to stick on some unobtrusive place like back or bottom of equipment, but the string ties are really the solution,
because you can even attach the label to power cables, connectors, even special tuning knobs.
I suppose labeling things could become an obsessive trait like list-making, but the purpose is good and I'm sure it will help.
Even in the short run it helps. I have sometimes forgotten where I was at, when I had diagnosed some problem in say a VOM that needs repair, then I come back to it 6 months
or more later and have forgotten exactly what I found was wrong.
Label makers do have their use. I have successfully made very small identifying labels and stuck them on for example, rubber duck antennas, to indicate which for which band
and original equipment, also on AC adapters to identify what for, battery holder for a HT, and so on. I know from jumbled estate receivings that such things tend to get misplaced
and lost.
It's in our blood, "the naming of the names", since Genesis.
-Hue

>Hello Hue.

That's a great idea - Where did you find string tie labels?

Bob   K7IRK
Tillamook, OR

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