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I hate it when that happens! Even worse is that I sometimes can't remember where my 'safe place' is, that or the Blue Guys forget to move stuff.
My only hope is that I find my 'safe place' before I die.
It may be that I am reading this while really tired or my mind is just somewhere else but Norton your comment has me thinking I walked into the middle of a conversation and have no context. What is this "safe place" of which you speak and who are the Blue Guys?
The safe place is where you put something you don't want to lose track of, and it is SO SAFE that even YOU can't find it again!
And the blue guys is a reference to an old Twilight Zone episode called " a matter of minutes" . where there are invisible (to us) men in blue jumpsuits who move objects near us from one "frame" of time to the next.
So when you set a wrench down for example, then reach for it a microsecond later and it's not there, then you stand up and it is there, the blue men were just a few moments behind schedule.
Well, that will teach you not to use metric sockets. I never lost an "inch" socket.
Norton...I used to have the 'safe place' problem, but constructed a box hanging from the 12' ceiling on a thin rope and pulley! Voila, no more lost pieces...but I still find myself on the floor with a magnet bar looking for the 'Jesus clip' or 3mm washer or #4 screw that the Blue Guys knock off the bench...cheers
I knew I was tired and distracted. I remember seeing that Twilight Zone episode now. They apparently can move memories around as well :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by RetiredFAE
Yep, I can relate to all of this. It seems to happen mostly with my glasses I have to wear reading glasses. I told a guy walking by I had left my glasses in my truck. Asked if he could read some fine print on a box of screws. He stood there for a couple seconds seemed to be staring at my shirt. Gave really me a strange look, but he did read it for me. I said thanks. But thought to myself, that was kind of weird. Got to my truck, could not find my glasses....
They had been hanging from the neck of my shirt the whole time.
Ha, Hemmjo, spot on! I can lose a tool in plain sight for quite a while...I usually stop and think about when I last used it and for what...and then it reappears magically! It must be the blue men...cheers and thanks for your input here...
lol, that is trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Paul Alciatore
But still, were they the right magnification glasses? When I am in the shop I have my safety glasses, my bifocals hanging, and my optivisor propped on head.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
I have a similar scenario. My hands have a mind of their own. They insist on putting things down without telling me where they put them. When I find the item they have their fun again and move them somewhere else.
Is that your new tat Jon? :)
Unfortunately I'm not that clever. That one is an internet legend.
Of course this meme also extends to Amazon: 30-piece 10mm socket shop pack
Hate to say it, guys, but I saw it fall off and go under the motorcycle. But I have found, over the years, at least eight 10mm sockets. So I believe it CAN happen!
Bill
That link is FUNNY. You HAVE to follow the link and read some of the "reviews".Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Did, and clicked on the banner advertisements under the reviews. Clicked to the next screen, found a gallon jug of blinker fluid...Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
Bill :)
I didn't find any of my missing 10 mm sockets today but I did locate my
electrical pressure tester
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Can you get those for low voltage as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I have a medium voltage one. And I think an ultra-high voltage for checking xmas tree lights but will have to look tomorrow for a low voltageQuote:
Originally Posted by NortonDommi
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No, nor I, especially if it's "inch" driveQuote:
Originally Posted by Paul Alciatore
Whilst installing solar panels on a low frame, out in the paddock, the 3/16 wit socket came off of the short extension,tumbled down the panel 4-5 ft then dropped onto the grass (six inches tall). I used a small metal detector, couldn't find it, so i whipper-snipped an area 15 ft in diameter, down to dirt. never did find it, and it was only 60 years old.........damn.
Oh man I need one of those. I wish Craftsman would make one so I would always have a matched set. A guy on here (Just1GuyMetalworks) bought a bag them recently at a swap meet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jon
Hey Bill, I assure you there were no camera tricks, this was recorded as it happened. The full video is also on Youtube, taking the bike apart. I am not that good of an actor, lol. Watch the slow mo at the end, it never makes it past the carbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by WmRMeyers
C. 1964, I had a comic, which featured a sci-fi story, illustrated by Frank Bellamy. In it, the explorers had tools etc go missing every night. They set up a high speed camera, 1k frames per sec. next day, a single frame shows a scruffy Neanderthal like being, triumphantly flourishing a wrench. The medics inject our hero with something that speeds him up 1000 times and off he goes to negotiate with the natives!
I liked imagining that I could have faster reactions than everybody else. I might have been better at sport.
My safe box is a leather cup produced for farriers’ nails. Sadly I am often too silly to use it.
Every working day, I put down a tool and a few seconds later cannot see it on bench, floor, ceiling, wall. Yesterday took a half hour to locate stripping pliers dropped into vice jaws.
I hear you with the safe place.
At least I'm not the only one.
I always blame the cat. Then when I get really desperate I call on the wife whom usually saunters out to the shop and spots the item right off the bat. The cat likes her better than me so she puts it in an obvious to a females intuitions safe spot.
I've tried that one, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by elk-a-holic
What I do most often now is, if I lose a hammer, I go look for a tape measure, I almost invariably find the hammer. I think what happens is that the gremlin that hid the hammer to start with is fooled into thinking that I wanted the tape measure all along, and hid the wrong thing, hence the hammer turns up.
Ha! Kodger, that's gotta be my problem, looking for wrong thing!...now, if I could only keep the blue men out of the workshop...cheers
This phenomena a good reasons for having kids. It is a very expensive way to have someone you can always blame for the loss. As they get older, it becomes a game and sometimes, they are good for finding things. Cannot count how many times I have heard, "Oh what did dad loose now?"
It has made me very happy reading this thread to know I am not the only one this happens to!!!.
You see now Hemmjo this is personification of my theory,....you got kids, you had sex when what you really needed was a good dinner.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
I tried the kid thing. Three times. It just made stuff worse. I did eventually find my Kukri out in the back yard, rusty as heck. Probably been in the yard for a dozen years. And a couple of the cheap screwdrivers. NONE of the good stuff, though. :(
Bill
raises two questions (1) Are you a Gurkha? (2) If not, how in hell did you get a Kukri? they usually won't part with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by WmRMeyers
I think it pretty obvious I'm not a Ghurka, and it has been quite easy to buy a Kukri for multiple decades. I bought my first on when I was 17. I'm 66 now.Quote:
Originally Posted by old kodger
https://www.khukurihouseonline.com
Bill
10mm sockets are champion level masters of disguise and camouflage. This can be remedied simply, make them larger.
Without knowing your whereabouts, it's likely that area is a portal expressly for 10mm sockets, and converge at will.Quote:
Originally Posted by WmRMeyers
LOL, I have never lost my 30mm socket. You must be on to something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toolmaker51
Possibly. None of us lose objects of significant size, apparently the blue men are in cahoots with poltergeists, leprechauns, fairies, grogrochs, elves and ghost of Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices named Joseph...Quote:
Originally Posted by theeddies
