Just another reason to keep a clean shop
I offer this for amusement value…….
I just spent some time making a little bitty template router base for my dremel tool so I can rout some tiny (1mm) recesses for inlay. To make the bushing, I used a small machine screw with a hole drilled through the center to accept the bit. I left part of the screw near the head threaded so I could screw it into the base. I ground the threads off of the remaining part that will protrude through the base to act as the bushing that will follow a template. After that, I cut it to it’s precise final length. Because I have no metalworking tools, the fly by the seat of my pants engineering and fabrication took about 2½ hours. While admiring my newly made tiny widgit, it slipped out of my hand. It landed in a pile of sawdust and I never found it.
At least I knew what I had to do to make the second one.
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quick,
QUICK!!! get a magnet and tape it to a stick, you do have a stick, don't you quick? dip it liberally into the sawdust, slowly and methodically. slow back and forth movements are encouraged. stick to it with the stick, quick. you'll find it.
best of luck,
eef
I second eef's advice. An alternative method is to remove your shoes and socks and step into the pile. The part will be stuck in the most excruciatingly tender part of your foot.
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Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
~ Denis Diderot
Time to dig out the Lumber Wizard(metal detector) like I have in the past is such situations. Namely locating lost screws or nuts while repairing my truck on the lawn.
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
Quick,
Somewhere in the deep reaches of my old mind there is a picture of a hollow pin that I remember; something to do with pop rivets methinks.
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Magnets are a must-have in the shop! I've retrieved a number of essential metal objects over the years, from inside the table saw, inside the vacuum cleaner, etc., etc., etc., etc..
Those magnets on a stick are good for finding the pin to attach the plow on an ATV when it falls in the deep fluffy snow under your machine. Please don't ask me how I know that.
It landed in a pile of sawdust and I never found it.
I would ask the neighbor Lady if she had a small child that is not alergic to wood. Little children can find anything! GOOD EYES!
And then a gift for the child and the Mom...
Reminds me of the time my misses dropped one of her diamond earings down the sink drain.
Yup, took the drain apart and got the earing back. You'd be surprised how much crap builds up in the trap.
ASK
Long as we're telling about dropped stuff.. my neighbor dropped his wedding band into a snow drift which was just under our bathroom window. We shoveled almost the whole drift through the window into the bathtub and ran hot water on the snow until the ring showed up.
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Lost rings: When I was freshman in college, I lost my HS class ring in a snowball fight. About ten years later, it appeared in the mail. Apparently someone found it, called the HS and I was the only member of the class with the right initials. Never did find out who the good samaritan was.
George,
I'm uh, almost afraid to ask what your neighbor was doin outside yer bathroom winder. :-)
Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Quick,
How 'bout one of these?
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They sell 'em in auto supply stores. I got this one in a toolbox I bought from a mechanic many years ago. Used it this morning when I dropped a washer on the floor. Must be sumpin in the air these days............
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
And Quickstep....
Magnets are fine providing the escaping items are steel.
The trouble is that most small screws have legs ,and are often made of brass or stainless, and they always run and hide if dropped-or you just take your eyes off them for an instant.I refer to those screws and parts found in electrical items such as starter switches and the like.
So one keeps a sieve, but that is the last resort. Best to make a nice clean area (including the floor) and work on a large sheet of paper, or shallow tray such as those oven bake trays.
True words about the legs. I thought I saw this little sucker land, but it scooted off to place where magnets wouldn't find it. I sifted the sawdust I thought it was in to no avail. The second one turned out better anyway.
Wait. You made a new one and the first one didn't immediately show up? Somethin's wrong, man. The first one shoulda come out of its hidey hole just as the second one was being installed.
At least that's how it always works out for me.
;-)
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
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