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Found out Park Tool's blue handle color has a real reason and I've been wrong for 8 years
I was reading through an old Park Tool catalog from 1994 that a retiring shop owner in Boise gave me with a box of spare parts. Turns out the blue handles on their tools were picked because blue was the cheapest dye available at the time, not because of any brand identity thing like I always assumed. I've been telling new mechanics for almost 8 years that the blue meant something special about the steel or the hardening process. The old guy just laughed at me and said every shop rat in the 90s knew it was about cost, nothing else. I felt like a total idiot standing there holding a 30 year old catalog. Anyone else get fed a wrong story about tool history that they passed along for years before finding out?
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grantschmidt15d ago
That 1994 Boise catalog just turned 8 years of your tool sermons into pure comedy gold.
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