What do you do when you lose bits ?

[Guest]

Curse, sob, blame the cat for hiding it :P


But what's even worse is losing half of a part, in my case the supercharger intake for a 1/32 109. Then whilst looking in a box wholly unconnected with modelling I found the missing piece.... can I find the original bit? Can I heck!


But I know the moment I buy a resin replacement, both bits will magically reappear

[stona]

Get the Dyson out, stretch the remnants of a pair of SWMBO's tights over the nozzle, and vacuum the entire floor. This will pick up all the shavings and other trimmings littering your floor, but usually you will eventually find the missing part stuck to the fabric of the tights as well. I now do this immediately as I've found scrabbling around on my hands and knees looking for small parts with a head torch on is more often than not a waste of time. Effing and blinding makes me feel better but does not aid in the quest for the missing part. I still do it though!


What is incredible is how far very small and light pieces of plastic or brass can move themselves from where they were dropped. They seem to defy the laws of physics!


Cheers


Steve

[takeslousyphotos]

oh lol,
I do spent so time looking but never ,never to be found at all,


some time bits get stuck on the cats fur and here real gone for good then,

I just blame Eric....... He also steals things from my toolbox. He likes the emery boards ........... I found three under a rug the other day.

[BBdave]

I have a hard wood floor and find switching the lights off and using a torch flat across the floor makes it easier to find as it casts a bigger shadow.


Dave

[Guest]

At a model show this year, a guy was giving building demonstrations. Spread under and around his work top was a white sheet, which meant any piece he knocked or dropped from the work top, landed in the sheet and was an easy find. Note this does not work with the bits that go "Ping" from out yer tweezers

[Neil]

Clearly he either had no SWMBO or she wasn't aware what use he was putting her sheet to.

[monica]

I just blame Eric....... He also steals things from my toolbox. He likes the emery boards ........... I found three under a rug the other day.
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look at that face oh you could not blame Eric,


but you did catch him red pawed so to say,my ones like taking things off as well or just biting and rubbing on ever think,

[colin m]

I scream and cry a little

and a bad word or two for me.