aerosam
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:21 AM |
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There's something funny going on in my garage
Every time I put a tool down - it vanishes!
It doesn't seem to matter if it's a socket,a spanner or even an angle grinder, i use it, put it down, then amoment later it's gone!
I then spend the next 5 minutes looking for it only to find it's quietly sneaked back to wherever I left it.
Is this just happening to me, or does anyone else experience this bizzare phenomenon?
Had enough of this dictatorship known as LCB. Gone elsewhere, not coming back. Kiss my ass ChrisW.
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afj
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:24 AM |
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happens to me
eerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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owelly
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:24 AM |
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It's well known throughout the world. It happens everytime I'm rushing to do something.
I think it's called "forfoxsake".......
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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tegwin
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:25 AM |
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Yup..... used to get it all the time.... reaally frustrating and means every job takes twice as long...
I invested in some good tool racks/cabinates and pegs..
Now every tool has a home.....I try and put back tools as soon as I have finished with them and at the end of every session make sure every tool is
back in its rightful place....that way you can instill some discipline in the annoying little buggers!
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Wheels244
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:25 AM |
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Tool blindness !
It affects us all eventually
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bilbo
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:27 AM |
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I too suffer from this strange phenomena.
I reckon it must be some sort of tear in the space-time continuum (aka swirly thing alert) through which the tools get sucked.
There must be a planet somewhere where the inhabitants have developed bizarre rituals in reverence to the sky gods to stop them dropping spanners on
their heads.
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Davey D
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:29 AM |
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Ive got a pit in my garage.... whenever anything goes missing i can always be sure it rolled down there.... and its always when i have the car over it
on axle stands, so i cant move it out the way... grrrr  
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Browser
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:30 AM |
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AARRRGGGHHH!! Ye've been infiltrated by the garage pixies! They come and move yer tools around, and are at their worst when yer in a hurry. Yer
doooomed I tell yer!!
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fesycresy
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:36 AM |
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Sam
Ask Colin about the missing tools in his 'shed', spend half hour looking for stuff that then appears right in front of us !
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smart51
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:37 AM |
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I only get it with allen keys. I own 3 sets now and can find all of them except the size I want. One time I was working under the back of the car
with 1 allen key and 1 spanner. The garage floor was swept clean and there was nothing around me. I put the allen key down for a moment, without
moving, and seconds later when I went to pick it up it had gone. I couldn't find it at all.
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Peteff
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:42 AM |
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I usually find I'm sitting or lying on whatever I'm looking for  There's a 10mm Facom spanner somewhere really safe though and
it's been there two years now. I have three sets of Allen keys and lots of safety glasses for this very reason
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:48 AM |
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happens regularly to me, the pixies are pretty clever my way though. They put it in a pretty sensible place, but cover it with a invisability cloak,
that is only removed once I have rummaged right next to it, then done a full lap of the garage to find it.
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oldtimer
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:50 AM |
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My worst habbit when the thing you dropped at your feet has completely dissapeared, is to drop something similar - this either dissapears too or never
ends up where the original lost item went. I don't know where half my tools have gone, nor where a quarter of my tools came from - this also
means I'm 25% down on tools all the time....
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:54 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
I only get it with allen keys. I own 3 sets now and can find all of them except the size I want. One time I was working under the back of the car
with 1 allen key and 1 spanner. The garage floor was swept clean and there was nothing around me. I put the allen key down for a moment, without
moving, and seconds later when I went to pick it up it had gone. I couldn't find it at all.
Mine's even more selective! I now
have 4 sets of allen keys all missing the 3mm one!!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 08:59 AM |
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I spend a depressing large amount of workshop time looking for tools that I put down and lost within 15 seconds. It drives me around the bend and
usually puts me in a very bad mood!
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iank
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 09:20 AM |
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Only occasionally with tools, but often with nuts/bolt/washers/clips I've taken off and will be re-using but are now hidden. Red floor paint is
perfect camouflage background for rusty fasteners - would pick light grey if given another chance.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
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woodster
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 09:24 AM |
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in our house its keys and mobiles they seem to be able to move and hide every time i put them down
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SteveWalker
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 09:26 AM |
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I'm sure that we've got a poltergeist, I can't think of any other explanation. For example, I can sit on the floor use a screwdriver
to remove a socket from the wall, scrape off a bit of paint that has stuck to the socket and then try to put the socket back, only to find that the
screwdriver is 10ft away!
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BenB
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 09:42 AM |
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LOL! Allen keys and safety goggles for me too!!
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Steve Hignett
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 09:43 AM |
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You want one of these...
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Richard Quinn
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 10:26 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve Hignett
I'd still lose that!! Perhaps if I attached it to
my belt with a bungee when it did go wandering off it would reach the limit of its extension and then come flying back (no doubt smacking me hard just
to remind me it was there!!)
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blakep82
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 10:34 AM |
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I lost the engine mounting bolts for my car about 2 months ago. found them saturday in the cardboard box i left them in, even though i checked in that
box loads of times
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mistergrumpy
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 10:38 AM |
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I'm pretty good with tools in that I always try to put them back but its nuts, bolts and bits of trim. I invested in a couple of them magnetic
bowls to pin the things down but the stainless stuff just disappears. I have this deep down worry that I've always held since being a kid in
that I put screws into my mouth so I don't lose them if I'm going to use them next and then they goes and I start wondering if I've
swallowed them by accident.
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watsonpj
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 11:21 AM |
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Happens to me with tape measures, i have about 6 now due to the amount of times i have lost them. Im getting ready to move house and whilst packing up
some of my stuff I found 4 in a huddle plotting.
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bob
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| posted on 27/4/09 at 11:43 AM |
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Mrs bob tells me its man thing... never can find anything thats right under our noses, i cant argue with that as its a normal day in the garage for
me.
I now have a list on the garage wall of tools i have lent out, nothing more frustrating than looking for something that isnt there at all.
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