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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: jimson on July 30, 2016, 03:04:53 pm
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G'day viewers, just wondering if I'm the only one suffering from ( bloody can't find the spanner, I only had it a minute ago farrrk ) jimson
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My boss likes to "borrow" tools from me and others and it is as if he literally drops them from his hand the very instant he no longer needs to use it. My work socket set looks like a smile with missing teeth, it's just plain wrong
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Not so much tools as parts I put in safe places that are so safe that I can't find them again even when I know where the safe place is
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At lease you can blame your boss Cyclegod, I'm doing it to my self & most of the time is when your in a position that's hard to get to & you look down & the spanner has gone. Just grown legs & done a runner lol. Jimson
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10mm socket is the clubhouse leader ! 8)
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Yes Tony I have a son who loves to use my things. So I put them in safe places & when I find them a year later it's like Xmas :)
Now my son has better tools than I do, but the bugger moved out lol jimson
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Spent 20 minutes looking for a spanner I had used 3 minutes earlier! Should have check my back pocket first, would have saved a lot of frustration looking for it!!!! :-[
Ed
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Yep I'm nearly always looking for something I've just used...need to clean the shed up too!
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I blame it on the shed ghost. The bastard has a sick sense of humour and gets a twisted kick out of hiding my tools....Just yesterday I spent half an hour looking for my magnetic torch. I gave up and got another torch and positioned it in the engine bay of the car and started work. Then what do I find? The bloody magnetic torch exactly where I thought I left it...In the engine bay ???
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Usually its the glasses :(
I have two "workshops" and between them three pairs of glasses, but I still have to often go into the house or other shed to find a pair :(
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there seems to be a portal to another dimension in my shed...as soon as the phone rings whatever i was holding or working on.....gone...works with parts set aside for future projects as well
may explain the contents of the beer fridge disapearing as well ;D
cheers
tony
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yes bloodywell sold a cable on trademe last week for $1[which reminds me i've not had a reply to a couple of emails], spent 'far too long' turning my stuff out down the farm & the Fkn thing was under an A4 bit of paper on the printer beside me. Happens all the time--wait till 'you get to 70'--well--nearly there lol. My old farm car up n down the road car old 626 coupe boot release cable broke many years ago so open with the ign key which comes out when running. You guessed it, get home & no key to turn it off but lucky for me each time it's still in the boot lock albeit loosely as that locks stuffed too. Lots more like that--'big' rubber mat at the back door was on the car roof during a sweep up. Phone went or something--mat wasn't there when we got home from town lol. Never seen again--wasn't in the drain heading to the main road etc.
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It's good to know it's not just me loosing the plot, I am always misplacing things I had 5 mins before, I lost my glasses at work,Tried retracing my steps, looked everywhere twice,gave up in the end it was doing my head in, was flying blind for a couple of weeks then they turned up sitting in a box amongst a motor I had pulled apart previously ;)
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Ok.
A week or so ago I bought a new rear mudguard. It's orange, has side number plates built in.
I've lost it. I know I have a fare sized shed, but give me a break! I'm pretty sure Alan Funt and some hidden cameras are involved!
I was talking to my mate on my hands free ear speaker things (blue tooth) while working on my bike.
My GF showed up and I took them out to talk to her. I remembered doing this. Where did I put the ear buds? I searched for hours, over weeks. Overall pockets, every set of handle bars. (Including pushbikes that's a lot of hanging space. Eventually I got a new set.....
I'm in the US currently. I was just searching for a coin in the pockets of some cargo shorts. I found some clean (through the wash at least once) wireless ear buds in the pocket.... :P
I think I've been getting better at not losing things, but this trend may have recently reversed. :-\
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Its a constant irritation , glad its not just me :D
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There are 2 ways to find a missing item in the shed
1) Buy another then while using the replacement the original suddenly reappears.
2) Go looking for something else that has been previously misplaced *** (disclaimer)
*** when this happens the phase "Thats where my ............ is" gets used a lot which means you found an item that was previously misplaced prior to the item your now looking for. By the time that happens you have found what your looking for shed time is over and you still haven't found what you originally misplaced but found 10 other items. Then as you put those 10 items down in a safe place the the item you really wanted to find appears under that rag on the bench...................3 hours later
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Part of growing old ... C.R.A.F.T syndrome. :-)
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You guys must be rich. i cant afford to lose tools. ;D
Ive come up with a cunning plan to stop this and bought myself a dog. well its actually a drawed filing cabinet/tool chest on wheels that follows me around. If I have to put the tool down it goes back in its drawer. Its just a handy place to put it as its right there beside me.
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but i would have to remember to put the item on the trolley Pokey ;D
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Yep all that pretty well sums it up.
I personally thought wormholes but I'm a SF fan.
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over the years i've worked out that is wasn't me loosing the tools
it was me forgetting who i lent them to and that same person not bothering or forgetting to return the borrowed tool
my solution to the missing tool problem is when my mates want to borrow a tool i now take a snapshot of them with the tool in there hands on my phone
works wonders if i cant find what im looking for in the shop I check my photos on my phone and bingo ! that jogs the memory of the missing tool
next problem is getting the mate to return it
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I often keep my tool box in my van, strapped down next to the side door.
It's easily accessible and I can just put the tools down in front of the box when lazy/hurried, then replace them in their (my?) "OCD position" when I get around to it, or need to drive the van.
Basically ONE place to throw them can be a good idea.
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It's while your working with the tool & it goes missing, it happens to me quite often. It's like farrrk I just had it in my hands. You have a look around & it's not there, then you come back with a coffee in your hand & it's there, true :-\ lol jimson
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Just a question. Why is it that if you're looking for a 10mm ring spanner all you can find is 11mm ones and if you are looking for an 11mm then heaps of 10mm ones. They all live in the same drawer in my toolbox.
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Tools in a pile on one side of the bench. New bits in a pile on the other side. Nuts and bolts in a dish. Rag spread out on the bench with disassembled whatever neatly laid out on it.
Never used to do all that, but found it's the only way not to "misplace" things. Even then it doesn't always work.
Mate couldn't find the special 13mm spanner he'd modified to reach behind the thing to do up the nut. Was pretty frustrating because he was halfway through the job. Found it three days later in the bathroom cabinet. Makes sense really in that middle aged man sorta way.
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Just read all of the posts.... and I could have written them all myself.
I've tried consciously to put spanners / parts away so I know where they will be... still doesn't work.
Put it down to the age thing... as I cant remember being like that when I was younger.... here we go again...
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I just read em all too, scary stuff alright ;D
Not so worried about the age thing, this has always been going on ::) ;D
I am no longer in denial either. I admit my biggest cause of recent confusion, parts and tools misplacement, is from having too many projects on the go at any one time.
So getting more creative now about project storage and organisation for jobs "on-hold" whilst waiting for parts etc, to turn up 8)
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Tools in a pile on one side of the bench. New bits in a pile on the other side. Nuts and bolts in a dish. Rag spread out on the bench with disassembled whatever neatly laid out on it.
I like that approach 8)
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yep... its not an age thing...
Too many projects and going from one to another...
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Face it guys, You've all got too many tools. Better donate them to the "Make pokey happy foundation". All donations are tax deductible in your nearest off shore tax haven and it will bring a smile to your heart knowing you've done a good deed. Please...none of those chinese rubber shifters marked Heavy Dtuy.
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I can find the spanner. It's right in my hand. I just have to spend ten minutes staring at it and wondering what I was meant to be doing with it.
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I recently lost a 150mm steel ruler I used nearly every time I was in my workshop, searched everywhere for it but failed every time. After a few months I was flicking through the Suzuki RM workshop manual one evening looking up fork oil quantities and guess what appeared....... give it time and all those misplaced items will be with you again.
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I can find the spanner. It's right in my hand. I just have to spend ten minutes staring at it and wondering what I was meant to be doing with it.
That's about the time to admit defeat, lock up the shed and head for bed!
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I have a theory that when you put a tool down then go to get it again, your brain puts a cutout shape of that tool in the olfactory centre so when you look at it on the bench, (right where you left it) the shape cancels the vision and you keep looking....finally the cut out fades and you go "Christ its right where I left it!" after doing 20 laps of all the spots it might be.. feel free to own this this theory
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80-85 Husky that's a bloody good theory ;) jimson
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I can find the spanner. It's right in my hand. I just have to spend ten minutes staring at it and wondering what I was meant to be doing with it.
That's about the time to admit defeat, lock up the shed and head for bed!
What..At 10am???
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I found my KTM mudguard. (Large/orange)
It was in my girlfriends car - never actually made it home!
Turned my shed upside down looking for it, 6 weeks ago. (I have been OS since.)
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beautiful...it has been purchased...tick..it has been picked up...tick ...wtf is it??? (in the courier van)...ha hah love it
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I read a theory on tools going missing then turning up again
It's the Martians. They are building a duplicate Earth on their planet (theory didn't go into why) and they are borrowing everything on Earth to make a copy.
That's why things disappear and reappear later in the same obvious place.
They take it, copy it and return it, true story
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martians eh? why would they want to copy a 1975 Gemini 80 sprocket circlip? I lost it in 1976 and never saw it again??