Bill BrownFounder of ServiceTitan Hacks community (9k+ pros) | INC 5000 Contractor | Helping contractors win with AI & Automation

How To Make Tools Last Longer

1 Apr 2020

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Short YouTube tip explaining that urethane grips on tools degrade over time (becoming soft, smelly, and tacky). The speaker warns that degraded urethane can accelerate breakdown of new urethane on other tools, and recommends keeping old and new urethane-gripped tools separated (demonstrated by storing them in separate cups) to prolong tool life.

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Contact with already-degrading urethane accelerates the breakdown of new urethane.

Storing old and new tools in separate cups.

Here's a quick tip for anybody who uses tools that have this urethane grippy stuff on them. Over time, this urethane kind of breaks down, starts to get soft. You can sink your nail into it. It gets a weird smell to it. But what a lot of people don't know is if you get new tools that have this urethane and you expose it to urethane that's already started to break down, it'll speed up the breakdown of the new stuff. So you always want to keep your old and your new tools separated to make sure you get the best life out of them. I do this with cups. So you can see there, I've got my cup of old tools and my cup of new tools.