When pulling something apart, & that little chit flys into orbit !!.

Yep Axle,

I can so relate to that. I reckon I have 'lost' more tiny springs/little clips/ball bearings than I can shake the proverbial stick at.

Spent so much time looking for stuff that I bought a dirty great big magnet.

Never found all the little bits, but did find all manner of beer tops/nails/old split pins dah dah dah dah.

Lucky I don't charge myself by the hour........LOL

Cheers
Michael

I was having fuel problems with the old G60 about 100km west of Broken Hill on the main drag.

I decided to pull the carby to bits in the side of the road. I did just that and when putting the lot back together again I dropped a circlip into the dirt. There I was crawling around under the truck looking for it as it was the one which held the throttle lever on to the carby.

A nice young fella stopped and offered help. He turned out to be a Toolmaker from Roxby and with s bit of wire he manufactured a cirlclip in about 10 minutes flat.

Definitley saved the day. He didn't even give me his name and took off with a wave.

But yes, I have dropped many things like that. Sometimes I find them a year later in a coner of the shed or under something and say..."Wots this?"......LOL

Cheers

HI that is why you don' do any repairs in remot erares that are not nesarsary.
(dont fu**K around in the bush).
Regards
Crusher

They don't call them "Jesus" clips for nothing!

OR , have you ever noticed that if you take something to the tip , sure as bleep you could have used it the next day .

G'day,
Guys, you mean to say that after all the years of experience all of you have had( I have been reading your posts for over 3 years now) that none of you carry a ground sheet, for when you are caught out and doing that repair, you know the one that srings up the other side of nowhere.
I got to admit I'm very surprised

andy

I am a carpenter and was installing a very expensive lock and had to reverse the handing.
I had to pull apart the lock to do so remove 3 small grub screws and turn the lever over and put the screws back in.
As you do drop one small grub screw and as per usual it has gone for ever.
I was doing it on a table so I thought I was ok.
Any way had to drive to a supplier of the lock approx 60k round trip to get another one cost of grub screw $10.
Take my work boots of that night and the screw was in the top roll of my socks.

Bugger

All the best
Eric

Anyone ever pulled a Penn overhead apart ?

PN.14 , an anti -reverse spring , was designed to launch itself into the air during re-assembly and land on the closest piece of multicoloured carpet . The importer used to order them from the Penn factory by the thousands .

One thing I always do when pulling anything apart , is to place everything in the order it came out . That does not stop them all going "SPRONG " sometimes and scattering across the room . There is a special law to describe that - something about bread falling !

Willie.

Used to work in a plant making styrene balls for filling bean bags and had to repair a small metering pump with spring loaded WHITE ceramic ball valves. You guessed it, dropped a ball on the floor covered in white bean bag filling and had to spend the next couple of hours on hands and knees gently blowing the floor till i found a ball that didn't move.
Bob