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jon f mn · Jan 4, 2021

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Steve@Advance · Jan 4, 2021

They never do...

Determined · Jan 4, 2021

Let's be honest now,

How many times have you taken another nut or bolt like the one you lost and dropped it from the same approximate area, watching the path it takes in hopes of finding out where the original one landed.

Hobo,NC · Jan 4, 2021

That cost me one time so I not go hunt'N for what I dropped...

I dropped a spark plug on a late 70's buick, sometime later while he was far away from home it shorted out between the positive post on the starter and ground it cost me $800 and a mad customer...

Was it the one I dropped dunno but can tell ya it wont be the next time... This was in the early 80's OUTCH...

centash · Jan 4, 2021

Yep...then I have 2 lost bolts!

Ben

Steve in VA · Jan 4, 2021

Last week a buddy's jeep wouldn't start and he said there was a loose battery terminal. Got tools out. He dropped the 1/2" wrench. While looking in the bay I found a pair of pliers wedged against the radiator support. Said he lost that months ago. Just rode around until found.

RM-MN · Jan 4, 2021

That's when you get out your endoscope. Camera on the end of a flexible cable with lights that can be dimmed or brightened. Fits into smaller places than your fingers will go, can be taped to a stiff wire to make it go where you want. It's saved me and paid for itself several times over.
Endoscope/borescope.

showcrop · Jan 4, 2021

That is when you need a tool that you can't buy yet: A telescoping electromagnet. You steer it down to where you think the part may be with the magnet off, and then switch it on. You can't get your regular magnet close.

Eric in IL · Jan 4, 2021

When they do make it to the floor, they can bounce and roll up to a quarter mile.

Pete in Holland MI · Jan 4, 2021

On this topic, the book I have on Murphy's Laws states:

1) Dropping a screw while working on a car will fall to the exact center of the underneith of the car.

2) Corollary to this.....it won't make it all the way thru.

sms · Jan 4, 2021

I don't think that was quite the expression on my face when I dropped a wrench in a bulldozer final drive while adjusting steering clutch and brakes years ago. Took some fishing but I got it out.

FBH44 · Jan 4, 2021

It's also a law that a dropped tool will fall and hit AND DESTROY the most expensive part in sight!

Goose · Jan 4, 2021

A few years ago, I was adding a pint of oil to the crankcase on an '07 Chrysler minivan.

I laid the oil filler cap on the radiator support. While I was adding the oil, the filler cap fell. There was nothing to keep it from dropping straight down to the floor. It didn't. I looked all over for that dammed cap and never did find it. I had to buy a new cap.

We owned that van for several more years, and the cap never did show up.

Ozlander · Jan 4, 2021

Changing sparkplugs on the '58 Impala, dropped a plug.
Looked and looked and finally found it, except it was a different brand.

cool hand · Jan 4, 2021

About 50+ years ago I was working on a carburetor on a Chevrolet 283" engine. Putting the carb back on I came up short by one nut. Could not find it anywhere. Used another nut in its place. Then found it when I started the engine. It was in the intake manifold and got sucked into the engine. Ruined two pistons--one on each bank (exactly how I don't know) but it happened.

TractorTucker · Jan 4, 2021

One of my tractors was missing a nut for the valve cover when I got it, I found it wedged behind the air cleaner when I pulled the manifold.

Tom OConnor · Jan 4, 2021

I must have looked like that the other night when i took out my hearing aids to go to bed and one came out without the little rubber bonnet cone on the end. Went over to the Mayo Clinic satellite facility in the east Phoenix Valley this morning and the young girl doctor with her special tool took it out in about five seconds. Said that she was sure glad that I did not try to take it out myself. Most that do end up pushing it in further and damaging their ear drum. I just knew that I needed a professional. The real surprise was no charge.

fastfarmall · Jan 4, 2021

I was working out side, so the light would be better, a snap ring got away from me, i heard it hit the ground, a gravel- dirt yard, i found it with in 3-4 minutes with a magnet, boy was i happy !I will never work on anything unless i have the right size prong's for the snap ring pliers again !!

SkipperII · Jan 4, 2021

Put a fresh rebuild in a friends 72 Ford Hi Boy. Two days later he brought it in, saying that engine you put in had a knock, then it went away. Lifted the hood, and there was the air cleaner lid, flipped upside down. I had put it on correctly with a new wing nut, and a fender washer, because he had a 1/4 hex nut on it. I said Bill; looks like your boys like the sound of the air flowing in, and flipped the air filter lid, they didn't see the flat washer, did they? He wanted to know what I was going to do about it, and I told him nothing, unless he wanted to pay for the tear down and parts. He ran it for several years before he finally sold it.

Wheat47 · Jan 4, 2021

Was working on the transmission on a 600 or so Ford tractor one time. Had the cover off for some reason.
Yep...you guessed it!!! Dropped a small capscrew in the transmission!! I could "almost" see it.
I tried magnets and mechanical fingers...no go!! About that time, one of the office girls walked by.
I finlly conned her in to reaching in with her tiny flexiable little hand and she pulled it out for me.
Cost me a 6-pack of pop, but it was well worth it!!!

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