All About Tool Belts

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Tool belt features and benefits

Feature: The Leather Work Belt
Benefit: Better manufacturers of leather tool belts, such as McGuire Nicholas Tool Belts or Alta Industries Tool Belts, offer a leather belt that allows the user to choose the look and feel of the belt. This is so that modularized accessories can be purchased to customize the uses of your belt.

Feature: Cordless Drill Holder
Benefit: The benefit of the cordless drill holder is its ability to keep your drill safe and handy. All too often you will find yourself on a ladder trying to balance your drill, screws, and a fixture, then setting the drill down on a rung only to watch it fall and break into half a dozen pieces. The drill holder will help you avoid this potentially expensive juggle.

Feature: McGuire Nicholas Wide Ruler Suspenders
Benefit: When you load up all those tools in your belt, there is the potential drawback ubiquitously associated with a plumber. You can avoid this by purchasing a set of suspenders.

Feature: Tool Pouch
Benefit: Most tool pouches come with a number of handy touches. First, a metal loop that's about 1 1/2 inches in diameter is for you hammer. Another is a short 2 inch chain with a metal rod on the end for a roll of tape. A number of other sections are also included to hold nails, screws, and screw drivers so that your most used items are at your fingertips.

Feature: Tape Measure holder
Benefit: This is a great little third hand device. It allows you to deploy the tape directly from the holder to get measurements on the run. This means the most fumbled with tool in your box can stay secured to your hip and not hurtle at terminal velocity towards a friend or coworker's head.

These are just a few of the attachments available for your tool belt. There are many more available to take your electrician's tool belt to a carpenter's tool belt and back again. There are even high fashion tool belts, believe it or not. Girl Gear makes pink tool belts, while there are 686 tool belts for the tragically hip male jobber.

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