Adventures in upgrades

[johnny bob]

That's nice of you to wait until midnight.

When I used to visit the local watering hole I would call the late 1200 low noon vs the other 1200 that was known as high noon.

 

[jbett98]

I stopped by a friends garage one day and found him moving everything that was on the floor outside to the driveway.
I asked what was going on and he replied that a small nut had hit the floor and disappeared into thin air.
The nut in question was for his vintage Triumph motorcycle and was a special English Whitworth oddball size that couldn't easily be replaced.
I've never seen his garage floor so clean. I asked him if he had checked the old cast iron floor drain that was clear across the room.
No was his answer, it's too far away.
I grabbed a magnet on a stick and fished around down in the p trap. Up comes the nut along with a dozen other fasteners and a small rusty metric socket.

 

[Flopsweat]

... Up comes the nut along with a dozen other fasteners and a small rusty metric socket.

10mm, right?

 

[jbett98]

10mm, right?

Smaller, more like a 6mm.
I've looked for a small fastener on my shop floor for almost an hour, only to find it stuck to the magnetic bottom of the flashlight I was using in the search.

 

[Flopsweat]

Smaller, more like a 6mm.
I've looked for a small fastener on my shop floor for almost an hour, only to find it stuck to the magnetic bottom of the flashlight I was using in the search.

I used a knife to open a box yesterday, switched the knife to the other hand to fish something out of the box, and then, for a moment there, couldn't find the knife to put it back in my pocket.

 

[Flopsweat]

10mm, right?

 

[solv3nt]

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I don't understand how I can have like five of those things and never find them.

 

[TTSX]

I don't understand how I can have like five of those things and never find them.

I've got deep, shallow, 12pt 6pt impact and chrome 1/4 and 3/8 drive... Even a 1/2 drive socket in 10mm... I have stubby and regular wrenches, ratcheting wrenches, flex head and fixed... I have an S wrench and a half moon wrench... I even have a wrench with teeth on it for removing rounded 10mms. And absolutely ZERO of them are around when I need em.

 

[Sxsnuf]

Congratulations on the upgrade! Let us know how it runs with the new trigger.