The search for missing items!

[blackolive (Ste)]

A fault code reader. Lent to someone who lost it.

A bullfinch blowtorch with a burner the size of a baked bean tin. Lent to someone who denied having it.

A 7mm 1/4 drive socket. Nestling on top of the freelander engine undertray

 

[slim_boy_fat]

But, it's a big workshop, but car ramps, really ?

Known as 're-homing'.

Nah its just moved down, ears, nose and ars e.

That's gravity for you.

 

[Mick Annick]

I have told the tale here before, but I lost a lovely Snap-On pry bar doing a pre-MOT check on a truck when I was an apprentice. A year later the same truck came back in for another pre-MOT, my bar was still wedged in the chassis where I’d left, just a bit rustier. Still have it now.

 

[Beanwood]

I lost some cheddar cheese yesterday that 'apparently' swmbo had put back in the fridge.

I did however find a rather chewed cheese wrapper in the dog's bed.

Surely some sort of coincidence...

 

[Dell]

in the extreme I get her indoor's to look.....she norm finds it......
thought it was just me.....!!!!!

I always get my wife to talk to the small screw gremlins she can usually talk them round to giving it back , that’s the trouble with repairing small antique clocks the screws are so——so small.
Dell

 

[George A2Y]

Not so.much as loosing items more about finding items I can't remember buying. Lol

Maybe Kram put his bits in your shed!

 

[Barking Mat]

I thought you guys fixed boats, not cars?

Yeah, but, when you've got a huge boat shed which is empty seven months a year, it's damn handy.

 

[Ed.]

This is definitely me!

 

[Gregb23]

I've lost a 17mm stahlwille spanner in the garage somewhere, used it to tighten a nut, put it down and haven't seen it six months later. Have looked in the immediate area and still no joy. Still hoping to find it as they weren't cheap and I use lots of M10 fixings.

 

[qwakers]

ive lost a norbar torque wrench. ive found its case, no sign of it though. not exactly small either.

 

[8ob]

I've lost a 17mm stahlwille spanner in the garage somewhere, used it to tighten a nut, put it down and haven't seen it six months later. Have looked in the immediate area and still no joy. Still hoping to find it as they weren't cheap and I use lots of M10 fixings.

Stuff like this can be normally found/heard clanking about inside the washing machine

Bob

 

[E T]

Just for the sake of going off topic. Why would you put honey in the fridge?

 

[Kram]

Pair of new chainsaw chains- lost 3 months ago, never used them.

This pair of chains have been found!! They were on the shed shelf but not in the sort of place I'd normally put my tools.

 

[badabec]

This pair of chains have been found!! They were on the shed shelf but not in the sort of place I'd normally put my tools.

You do now

 

[JEZGUZ]

There seems to be a black hole where torches seem to vanish into. I bought one recently and It's in the flat somewhere but I can't find it along with the other half dozen that I've bought in the last year.

 

[JOEPRO]

I tend to have 2 or more of many tools.

I work at my cars etc evenings and weekends across 3no garage spaces.

Multimeters and certain tools can sometimes need a 1+ hour search to find it. So if I know I've mislaid something and I have to go get parts or supplies anyway I'll buy another of the lost item.

Then I'll proceed to lose that also and the vicous cycle repeats itself

 

[redlig]

Sharpies and tape measures . I'm sure they have some sort of heard instinct. No matter where I spread them around the workshop ,house etc to be sure that I can find them they always end up in one place where least expected and the last place to look.

 

[BarrieJ]

Tape measures.
I used to have dozens of them, due mostly to scorching them when holding them too close to hot iron (mild steel anyway).
Over the years, since retirement and without working away from home, they've gradually diminished in number until I can only find two, one indoors and one in the garage/workshop. Presumably, somewhere there's a place like the fabled elephants' graveyard, tape measures in their final resting place after a life lived to the full. Well, rarely the full five metres but you know what I mean.

 

[Kram]

We had somone come quote for some work a few months back, they didnt have a measure and used ours (which happened to be out on table) and then left with it!

 

[Pete.]

We had somone come quote for some work a few months back, they didnt have a measure and used ours (which happened to be out on table) and then left with it!

Tape measures are like cigarette lighters, if it's unattended it's fair game.