Tool Tips: No more chasing sand cloth, selfie tips
While installing the water supply copper piping on a five-story commercial building, I was spending a lot of time chasing my strip of sand cloth, which I used for sanding the outside of the copper pipe. No matter where I placed the sand cloth — in my tool bag pouch or slung over the pipe itself — it always ended up on the ground.
So I came up with this idea of using a mesh golf glove and two pieces of Velcro. I attached one piece of the Velcro to the sand cloth and the other to the glove, placed between the thumb and index finger. Then I could grab the end of the pipe and sand it without searching for my sand cloth. When the sand cloth wore out, I replaced it. I was able to complete my work much sooner as I wasn’t climbing up and down a ladder to retrieve my sand cloth. Andrew Gottesman Livermore, Calif.