I can relate to this! You?

[wyliec]

I lay down the magnetic mat before starting. The plastic pieces I don't care about.

 

[Spyder_Cowgirl]

Socks

I think all the bolts, screws, nuts, and washers we have lost must be at the same place all those dang socks go.....:banghead:

Nope, I know where our missing socks used to go .... Hazel, our dachshund (may she RIP), would steal them and use them to sleep on. Had quite the collection at one time!nojoke

All the best .... Ann

 

[manxman]

Loosing big things

One day I was making a good sized bushing, about 2" x 2" out of aluminium stock. While taking it out of the chuck I dropped it on the floor. I looked for two hours and could not find it anywhere ! I had to make another, and never did find the other. So, it's not only he small stuff. I also have a coffee can with the screws, nuts and minor things I had left after severe maintenace......

 

[Peter Aawen]

One of the shops that I frequent has a resident pig (pet). Pig needs to be watched because of tool and part theft.
~Sandee~

:shocked: It almost sounds as if it's time to harvest some bacon...

They would, Bob, but that danged pig weighs more'n a full pallet load of scrap iron & rattles with each step it takes, making the ground shake - so no-one's game to even suggest approaching it with a knife (& who knows, it might get hungry when it sees one!) & bullets just ricochet off it like they've hit an armoured steel door!! :yikes: :shocked:

Mebee an electro magnet would slow it down, but it's so danged heavy the last time they tried the crane jib threatened to bend & topple when they tried lifting.... :dontknow:

Besides, you might hurt your teeth chewing on bacon from that pig!!

 

[Bob Denman]

I'm always up for a challenge... :thumbup:
Bullet-proofed, from the inside out: what a great concept!

 

[Bob Denman]

Nope, I know where our missing socks used to go .... Hazel, our dachshund (may she RIP), would steal them and use them to sleep on. Had quite the collection at one time!nojoke

All the best .... Ann

Missing socks are the "Soylent Green", of the clothing industry...:yikes:

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

Last week I did a disassemble, repair, and reassemble of a weather proof deck box I store wood pellets in. When I put the last of the original screws back in I could not find one. Looked all over the floor for it. A couple of days later it appeared on the kitchen table. My wife had taken it out of the clothes washer where it dropped out of my pants pocket where I put when I went to the hardware store to look for some more similar screws!

 

[Sam Mac]

This has to be one of the truest posts of all time. :roflblack::thumbup:

 

[IdahoMtnSpyder]

An old time mechanic used to sit on a sheet on the floor of his garage when he was overhauling a carburetor. When asked why he did that he said, "Parts don't travel so far when I drop them!"

A vocational school instructor would have his students disassemble an automatic transmission, placing all the parts in a very orderly fashion on a sheet on the floor to make reassembly easier. After he inspected their work and gave his approval he would pick up the sheet by the four corners and shake it. "Now, put it back together!"

 

[jegarh]

Many years ago I had my little shop in our one car garage. I was doing something on my drill press and without stepping out of my tracks I put the chuck key down. A few minutes later I needed it again and could not find it again. I had to go buy another one. Two years later I was packing up my stuff to move and lo and behold there was the chuck key in plain sight at a little below eye level on the front edge of a shelf that was right behind me when I was operating the drill press. It had sat there for 2 years in, as Lamonster says, IPS. :yikes:

Jerry

 

[wd8ajj]

I think it's deal made with Loews and Home dept and the black hole that makes ya running there to buy more hardware ya lost. Not only on the Spyders but Fords,Chevy's and Honda's.

 

[ruralgirl]

One of the shops that I frequent has a resident pig (pet). Pig needs to be watched because of tool and part theft.
~Sandee~

Turkeys and chickens are big time thieves, too, stealing not only from the floor, but if they're tame enough, right out of your hand or pocket.

 

[Gumbeau]

Anyone else relate to this when working on your Spyder?

Bob

absolutely