Butter fingers

[Rocketman]

So I'm welding up the front chassis leg on in the inner wheel arch. Accidentally I dropped the piece of 1.5mm MS sheet I was forming to size down the hole I cut out!

Unfortunately it went down almost a ski slope and is somewhere in the chassis leg under the car now - probably 2 foot from the hole. Tried to get it out with magnets stuck to long steel rules but it's gone past the curve at the bottom and just can't get it.

It's about 6 inch x 2 inch.

Would you worry about it rusting away and attacking the chassis leg over time?

In theory the chassis leg is epoxied internally but this lose piece of ms steel will rub over it while you drive I guess.

 

[rtbcomp]

Lob some sticky underseal after it to glue it in place.

 

[pedrobedro]

It will probably never move again, why should it rub ? Pour some paint down to glue it into place if you think it will move and if it's made of the same stuff as the chassis leg it will only rust at the same rate as it. Make another and seal it in for ever

 

[sardine]

Turn the car on end and shake it vigorously ?

 

[Wendelspanswick]

Buy mouse.
Buy magnet.
Buy cheese.
Tie magnet to mouse tail.
Put mouse in hole.
Wait 5 minutes.
Tempt mouse out of hole with cheese.
Eat cheese.

 

[CRB]

Buy mouse.
Buy magnet.
Buy cheese.
Tie magnet to mouse tail.
Put mouse in hole.
Wait 5 minutes.
Tempt mouse out of hole with cheese.
Eat cheese.

?Done that before then?

 

[mike 109444]

Buy mouse.
Buy magnet.
Buy cheese.
Tie magnet to mouse tail.
Put mouse in hole.
Wait 5 minutes.
Tempt mouse out of hole with cheese.
Eat cheese.

And remember the cheese is the yellow hard stuff and the mouse is the furry thing. Don't get them mixed up. You will know if you have cos the cheese will be crunchy and not taste of cheese.

 

[BrokenBiker]

And remember the cheese is the yellow hard stuff and the mouse is the furry thing. Don't get them mixed up. You will know if you have cos the cheese will be crunchy and not taste of cheese.

And wont come back out when tempted by the mouse haha

 

[Rocketman]

OK general consensus don't worry about. It can live down there with the cage nuts that slipped down.

 

[ibrooks]

I'd definitely squirt something sticky after it though to hold it still - could be a REALLY annoying rattle otherwise.