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What have you "lost" today...?

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That meant you had to almost turn the workspace over for to find it.

Me...?

This little "bar steward"...
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Where did I eventually find it? On the shelf under my mitre-saw fliptop workbench...
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Whats it for...
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My little Parkside grinder... changing the disc over and it slipped away... *obvious* place to look was the floor - surely 🤷.... At least the 'shop floor got a sweep up as I moved all the units out/about to check under them 🙃
 
I lost a little screw for holding an insert in a lathe tool. It fell onto the floor (which currently has a lot of metal swarf on it). After a while I gave up looking for it and just counted myself thankful that I had a couple of spares!
 
I've got fed up with bending over at my age or getting on my knees to find little piece of metal lost off the bench.

I've now got a magnet of a telescopic stick. I don't even have to look under the benches anymore.

Unless they're aluminium washers.
 
Thanks for joining in 🙃👌.

I'm seemingly forever putting things down and 'forgetting' where I put them... good to know I'm not the only one 😂.
 
Malc2098 said:
I've got fed up with bending over at my age or getting on my knees to find little piece of metal lost off the bench.

I've now got a magnet of a telescopic stick. I don't even have to look under the benches anymore.

Unless they're aluminium washers.
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The magnet stick... something you made up Malc - or bought from somewhere? I did consider trying to find and make up a magnet stick... I've got one (or a pack of 10 small ones - from Lidl a while back) but I'd,mucked up the workshop moving the mobile benches around. In this instance it wouldn't have helped me with the bit not being on the floor... Last minute thought after cleaning up the floor that it "*may have* landed on the shelf...
 
Accipiter said:
The magnet stick... something you made up Malc - or bought from somewhere? I did consider trying to find and make up a magnet stick... I've got one (or a pack of 10 small ones - from Lidl a while back) but I'd,mucked up the workshop moving the mobile benches around. In this instance it wouldn't have helped me with the bit not being on the floor... Last minute thought after cleaning up the floor that it "*may have* landed on the shelf...
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A bit of both. It had a piddly little magnet on the end, so I stuck one of my bigger ones on it.
 
I bought a pickup tool, when my hip was bad, still use it all the time.
I have a magnet on a telescopic handle, ok for small things and a magnet from an old loudspeaker fixed to the end of a long batten for heavy things.
Non of them helped when I was looking for the fibre glass chimney rods. 🙄
 
Cabinetman said:
Luddite here, what’s the green and yellow page Rob? Is it a bit FBish? sort of a diary of your life musings?
Pam says she likes your socks btw.
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Tell Pam 'ta' from me and life is waaaaay too short for boring socks! :ROFLMAO: The linkie above refers to an online blog that I kept for several years but I found it was too much of a faff to keep on doing it. The number of folk who've read the ramblings now seems to be getting on for half a million so I must have done something right. It was the blog btw that got me my job working for Axminster! - Rob
 
Woodbloke said:
Tell Pam 'ta' from me and life is waaaaay too short for boring socks! :ROFLMAO: The linkie above refers to an online blog that I kept for several years but I found it was too much of a faff to keep on doing it. The number of folk who've read the ramblings now seems to be getting on for half a million so I must have done something right. It was the blog btw that got me my job working for Axminster! - Rob
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What? Seems unbelievable, don’t these people have anything else to do? Says he on here haha
 
Woodbloke said:
This is my problem and I suspect plenty of others have the same affliction! - Rob...and the chamois leather probably hasn't re-surfaced Andy :ROFLMAO:
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👌... I absolutely KNOW that stuff happens... 😂 I had a good laugh at that one 🤣.

Happens extremely regularly, too regularly, and an example 'for today' is that I couldn't locate the paper towel roll holder - yes, it's on an old kitchen roll holder... METALIC RED in colour! Looked all over in the 'shop (only place it would be) with no luck... dug out an old clean'ish piece from the bin, wiped and put back in the bin... turned round and saw the towel holder and BLUE CHECKED towel on the saw table! 🤔🤷
 
Yes but you double it all up by having two of everything and things get totally snaffood!
Spent a morning looking for my drill charger which I knew was in the black plastic briefcase type box. Well, yes it is in England! Had I thought to look for a black and yellow bag (which I had moved twice looking for the briefcase) I would’ve got on a whole lot better!!
 
Dr.Al said:
I lost a little screw for holding an insert in a lathe tool. It fell onto the floor (which currently has a lot of metal swarf on it). After a while I gave up looking for it and just counted myself thankful that I had a couple of spares!
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Do you place the little screw carefully on the cross slide, then use the air line to clean the tool, and, apparently, blast the little screw into orbit?
 
Guineafowl21 said:
Do you place the little screw carefully on the cross slide, then use the air line to clean the tool, and, apparently, blast the little screw into orbit?
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No, I tend to blast the tool with the air line before removing the screw (helps clear out the torx socket). This was just me being clumsy when trying to insert the screw. If I'd been sensible, I'd have done it on the bench rather than holding it in mid-air in the middle of the workshop.
 
Cabinetman said:
Yes but you double it all up by having two of everything and things get totally snaffood!
Spent a morning looking for my drill charger which I knew was in the black plastic briefcase type box. Well, yes it is in England! Had I thought to look for a black and yellow bag (which I had moved twice looking for the briefcase) I would’ve got on a whole lot better!!
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Yeah but... I've got 5 tape measures, 2 identical claw hammers... numerous replicate (or more? ) chisels... drill bits, 3 4" bolster chisels because I couldn't find the 1st one...

I finally *found* my (55? year old) spring hole punch - bought it when I worked for a builder's merchant when 18½ - while moving stuff around in the workshop revamp. Hadn't seen it for 35 years... It had 'dropped' into a white plastic box with unneeded bits! 🤷
 
Accipiter said:
Yeah but... I've got 5 tape measures, 2 identical claw hammers... numerous replicate (or more? ) chisels... drill bits, 3 4" bolster chisels because I couldn't find the 1st one...

I finally *found* my (55? year old) spring hole punch - bought it when I worked for a builder's merchant when 18½ - while moving stuff around in the workshop revamp. Hadn't seen it for 35 years... It had 'dropped' into a white plastic box with unneeded bits! 🤷
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That's not much, you should see my place. :whistle:

In my defence a lot is left over from my business when I needed to buy multiple as the lads just destroyed gear. :sick:
 
Accipiter said:
Yeah but... I've got 5 tape measures, 2 identical claw hammers... numerous replicate (or more? ) chisels... drill bits, 3 4" bolster chisels because I couldn't find the 1st one...

I finally *found* my (55? year old) spring hole punch - bought it when I worked for a builder's merchant when 18½ - while moving stuff around in the workshop revamp. Hadn't seen it for 35 years... It had 'dropped' into a white plastic box with unneeded bits! 🤷
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The spring hole punch must have been a pleasant surprise.
 
One of the problems is the rift in the space time continuum moves round the workshop steeling the tool you last used, only five minutes ago.
It holds onto things until you have bought a replacement and then pops the tool back in a really obvious place.🤔
That's why I have two crimp tools, bought for a particular job that had to wait the second one to arrive. At which point I suddenly had two ready to use.🙄
 
DaveL said:
One of the problems is the rift in the space time continuum moves round the workshop steeling the tool you last used, only five minutes ago.
It holds onto things until you have bought a replacement and then pops the tool back in a really obvious place.🤔
That's why I have two crimp tools, bought for a particular job that had to wait the second one to arrive. At which point I suddenly had two ready to use.🙄
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Back when I had two sheds and a loft full of computer spares I would quite often buy stuff on eBay rather than have to rummage.
In the end I freecycled all but a boxful.Hoarding is a mind disorder Im still not cured of.
Today I discovered I've lost a Quality Street tin (the old metal ones six inch deep) of spare keys including those of all the vintage bikes and the Austin.
Two house moves takes its toll.
I had the A35 key to hand so went into town this morning to get at least that one cut before I lost it as well -replacing a set of 70 yr old lock cylinders would be a challenge if not impossible now.
Timpsons in Asda? -don't have those sorry
Asian outfit in town ? No thank you sir
Tractor place -nada, but there was a New Holland with the front wheels bigger than my Massey Ferguson 135's back ones!!
Timpsons in the town indoor market? She looked at the computer and leafed through a paper catalogue .A lot of effort but, excuse the pun,drew a blank.
Getting worried now.
I could google somewhere in the other side of the country that could help but I can't risk posting the only key that I have.
Last ditch was the tiny old fashioned cobblers on the edge of town .
He looked at the key and asked how many I wanted,then took the blanks off the peg in front of me.
Life saver -and fairly reasonable twelve quids for two
The difference between a shop keeper and someone who just works there.
Got to begin getting all the others doppelganged before it's too late - never thought this situation could occur.
 
Accipiter said:
Thanks for joining in 🙃👌.

I'm seemingly forever putting things down and 'forgetting' where I put them... good to know I'm not the only one 😂.
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Seems to be one of the joys of getting older, I never used to put stuff down & not be able to find it but I do these days.
Pencils are the worse, my remedy was to get a box of 100 & put them all over the place 😂
 
Doug said:
Seems to be one of the joys of getting older
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I don't think I can use that excuse. When I was a teenager I was given a very nice fountain pen as a gift by my grandfather.

One day I spent more than half an hour searching for it (having just been using it), digging through drawers, looking underneath notepads and anything else on the table. Eventually I realised where it was: in my left hand.
 
Dr.Al said:
I don't think I can use that excuse. When I was a teenager I was given a very nice fountain pen as a gift by my grandfather.

One day I spent more than half an hour searching for it (having just been using it), digging through drawers, looking underneath notepads and anything else on the table. Eventually I realised where it was: in my left hand.
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Reminds me of ‘they’re on your head, Mrs Richards!’.
 
Dr.Al said:
One day I spent more than half an hour searching for it (having just been using it), digging through drawers, looking underneath notepads and anything else on the table. Eventually I realised where it was: in my left hand.
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Reminiscent of a story by Somerville and Ross:
Two Irish characters arguing that each had "lost" a document. As the argument raged, one emphasised his point by thumping the table - with the document in question in his hand...😏
 
I had been mithering for ages whether to do a proper job and sink them into the door and door jamb or be lazy and not bother. As I was rummaging through the crates I came across my hinge jigs but they looked a bit too big for the ones I was fitting and so I put them to one side.

Finally I reached a decision today to do a proper job and researched compatibiity between my hinge jig and the hinges I was going to fit. Jackpot. They matched. So I went to get the hinge jig. Could I find it and the others ? Had I put it in a 'safe place' in case it was right for the job? Possibly. If so do I know where that 'safe place' is? Nope.

So I just ordered one from Toolstation. And a new cutter. And a new 30mm bush. That will probably bring my stock up to 3 of each. :mad:
 
Feel for you Roger... they'll most likely turn up when you get the ones from Toolstation - that's what usually happens with me
 
My wife, like everyone, occasionally loses stuff. When she does, she’ll look around for 15 mins and then ask for help, I ask her where was the place she first looked for it then I go directly there and I retrieve the item. It never fails.
 
I'm finding that my wife 'plays a part' in me loosing some stuff... I've a habit of putting some bits (note book, pen, pencil for example) at the end of the kitchen worktop... it/they sometimes disappear! To then reappear inside the kitchen unit under where I put them. Darned annoying 😑 😂
 
Accipiter said:
I'm finding that my wife 'plays a part' in me loosing some stuff... I've a habit of putting some bits (note book, pen, pencil for example) at the end of the kitchen worktop... it/they sometimes disappear! To then reappear inside the kitchen unit under where I put them. Darned annoying 😑 😂
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We have a designated area where my wife will put my things she has found and does not like them being there. tape measure, drill bits ear plugs
 
John Brown said:
I have a length of dowel with a magnet on one end and a cup hook on the other. If neither end will pick up the dropped thing I'll resort to gymnastics, the vacuum cleaner or a grandchild.
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I think having a grandchild on the end of a stick, though practical, is a bit cruel...

... 's OK: I've got me coat.
 
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