Hand grips on tools wear out quickly with heavy use, but firefighter blog VentEnterSearch offers up an easy way to create a new grip or repair an old one using wire and heat-shrink tubing.

Used in combination with a shrinkfit machine, the holders rapidly heat up to expand the inside diameter ... This process not only ensures accuracy, but it allows for tool changes of less than 30 ...

Shrink-fitting achieves an interference fit between tool and holder by creating a temperature difference between the two before assembly. Once everything returns to temperature, the two parts may ...