Nescessity is a mother f?@(#/-

No wait, that is not they saying! It is necessity is the mother of invention! Anyhow, the foam inside my spark plug sockets has long since perished. Typically I can use a short length of hose slipped over the plug's top to remove/insert one, for the small number of plugs I change this works fine. Yesterday I could not manage to slip the hose over the plugs on the rear bank of a transverse mounted V6 and then stumbled upon the trick of slipping my hose through the top of the socket and lowering the hose/socket into the hole. The socket guides the hose to the top of the plug and you can remove and start the plug this way.

Pretty slick!

Actually, that is the quote (well part of it) if you follow White Zombie