EZ-Magnetic Chuck Key Holder

**Texf1** · Feb 8, 2018, 08:14 AM

I used to laugh at older men when I was a kid for having pockets on their T-shirts or polo's. Now that I am older, I realize just how handy those pockets are. I still won't use a pocket protector though. I like your ideas. I like that labeling of the drill bits especially. I will also use this idea on sockets and wrenches. Thanks for the tips.

**mklotz** · Feb 8, 2018, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Texf1

I used to laugh at older men when I was a kid for having pockets on their T-shirts or polo's. Now that I am older, I realize just how handy those pockets are. I still won't use a pocket protector though. I like your ideas. I like that labeling of the drill bits especially. I will also use this idea on sockets and wrenches. Thanks for the tips.

Most of my shop friends (all of us of early Jurassic age) use the expression, "Handier than a shirt pocket." My wife is aghast that I rate the quality of shirts by their pockets - how many, flaps, flap buttons, and when flap is closed is there a slit to accommodate a pencil clip.

I keep a pocket protector in my tool box to remind me of the good ol' days but my daughters refuse to be seen with me if I should wear it. At Halloween one of my grandsons wanted to dress up as a mad scientist. I was disappointed when he asked to borrow my pocket protector to complete the look.

A further refinement to the drill bit labeling that I made after the article was written... For the numbered drills use two colors, one to label 10, 20, 30, etc. and another to label 5, 15, 25, 35, etc.. This will speed the process of counting to the desired drill.

**tonyfoale** · Feb 8, 2018, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

I keep a pocket protector in my tool box to remind me of the good ol' days .

I'm well into my eighth decade but I can't say that I've heard of a pocket protector before. Its use is obvious from the name and I am guessing that it is a leather slip-in liner. Maybe it is a US term? Do you have a photo?

**mklotz** · Feb 8, 2018, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by tonyfoale

I'm well into my eighth decade but I can't say that I've heard of a pocket protector before. Its use is obvious from the name and I am guessing that it is a leather slip-in liner. Maybe it is a US term? Do you have a photo?

Leather !? Be still my heart. We could only dream of such luxury.

Type "pocket protector" into Google images and you'll get plenty of pictures of the device itself and genuine nerds modeling them.

I do believe they're a Usonian invention, probably originated as give-aways at tool shows.

Back in the 70s if you had a pocket protector, black frame glasses taped with white surgical tape and a white shirt that advertised everything you'd eaten for the last four days you could repel girls from distances as great as 150 yards.

**Frank S** · Feb 8, 2018, 09:48 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

Back in the 70s if you had a pocket protector, black frame glasses taped with white surgical tape and a white shirt that advertised everything you'd eaten for the last four days you could repel girls from distances as great as 150 yards.

Didn't work for me that was how I wound up with my first wife sans the Poindexter glasses, or maybe it was my white lab coat turtleneck sweaters and loud bell bottom trousers phase I went through before reverting back to cowboy boots, hat & jeans

**tonyfoale** · Feb 8, 2018, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by mklotz

Type "pocket protector" into Google images and you'll get plenty of pictures of the device itself and genuine nerds modeling them.

Thanks. I must say that I had not seen those previously. However, although I have never owned one I am familiar with a device for holding one or two pens in a pocket. The device clips in place like a pen clip and holds one or two spring things into which you place pens or pencils. I don't know the proper name of it though.

I did have a pocket sized slide rule with a leather case which I always had in a shirt or jacket pocket. I never went anywhere without it.

PS. Mr. Google found this on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/1-X-Double-...d=162737079877

**ranald** · Feb 9, 2018, 08:45 PM

The magnet is a great idea providing your ticker is good and definately if you don't have a pace-maker.

Most of my work gear still has heaps of tiny holes so I started (years ago) taking a strong magnet (before we had rare earth ones here) in a heavy plastic bag that i usually used to recover items from my workshop/shed floor from within the saw-dust. Then I used a tractor parts holder(strong magnet like those on speakers ((car or home)) which too are really usefull-glue them on the side of cabinets/walls etc) to hold my bits & bobs. I don't know why clothing usually lacks a right hand shirt pocket.

Cheers, Ranald