You ever wonder "Why" when you're working on a car or truck and you drop a nut or bolt it always avoids the straight drop to the ground and instead goes on some circuitous path and behind a crank shaft pulley that is inaccessible unless you pull the entire engine out?
Buy one of these.
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Murphy's Law requires that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Thus gravity is temporarily suspended so that dropped items can take improbable paths to inconvenient locations.
That "guaranteed for life" gadget fails completely two days after the manufacturer files for bankruptcy.
FL/GA PLS., post: 455037, member: 379 wrote: Buy one of these.
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Then you get to see the inaccessible object before you pull the motor...
gschrock, post: 455054, member: 556 wrote: You could use the "Flying Javelin" method: construct ramps like these ,and then pick up the dropped piece afterwards. Might have to do it a couple of times to dislodge that critter...
Centrifugal force would keep the dropped pieces lodged.
My eyes AND ears have started their march toward age-induced failure. Dropping a washer or a nut onto a dark garage floor can be a frustrating thing. But there is hope.
Keep one of these critters around that is use to you dropping crumbs and nuggets on the kitchen floor.
Sure as hell if you drop something on the garage floor they will be on it before you can start cussin'. 😉
It seems like every time one takes something apart, and then puts it back together, there are always an extra part, nut, bolt, whatever, left over.
It have been postulated, that you if take something apart, and put it back together again ENOUGH times, you will have two of them.
Loyal
Stephen Ward, post: 455041, member: 1206 wrote: Murphy's Law requires that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Thus gravity is temporarily suspended so that dropped items can take improbable paths to inconvenient locations.
And Kirchov's Corollary, "Murphy was an optimist".
Andy
Just A. Surveyor, post: 455035, member: 12855 wrote: You ever wonder "Why" when you're working on a car or truck and you drop a nut or bolt it always avoids the straight drop to the ground and instead goes on some circuitous path and behind a crank shaft pulley that is inaccessible unless you pull the entire engine out?
That's why they invented those telescopic magnet thingies. They never seem to bend the right way though.
I see scraped knuckles in your future grasshopper.
rochs01, post: 455101, member: 266 wrote: That's why they invented those telescopic magnet thingies. They never seem to bend the right way though.
Murphy invented those magnet thingies and their cousin the flexible remote claw. That's why they stick to and pick up every thing but the intended target. Murphy was a sadist with a mean streak.:p
paden cash, post: 455073, member: 20 wrote: Sure as hell if you drop something on the garage floor they will be on it before you can start cussin'. 😉
That pup with the big blue eyeball is a female, right? She has "THE LOOK" built right in.:eek:
rochs01, post: 455101, member: 266 wrote: They never seem to bend the right way though.
I just tape it to a straightened coat hanger and bend as needed. That at least gives you a 50/50 chance of success. 😉
I once saw a guy lose his cellphone when he dropped it under the hood. He could hear it... just couldn't find it. Never did as far as I know.
That's why whenever my cars need maintenance, which isn't very often, I take them to a repair shop. If I try to repair it myself, its like someone trying to survey their own property.
Amen, Brother Steve.
