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Rootes75



Joined: 30 Apr 2013
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Location: The Somerset Levels

PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:16 pm    Post subject: Lost Parts... Reply with quote

I have recently started to rebuild my 55 Hillman Minx engine. When bought the pistons were all seized so it took a lot of time to get them all out. I haven't touched it for over a year. On Saturday we started putting the conrods on to the new pistons but when fitting the last one we found we were one circlip short!!

I searched round in the trays with the original engine parts in and found nothing, we searched high and low and then realised we actually only had 3 of the original pistons in the trays!!

In the end, I said forget it we'd wasted ages trying to find it and that I would just buy some more. Then yesterday I had to go to the shed to get something else and low and behold whilst looking at a shelf with just lorry parts on I found the said missing piston complete with the circlip put back in after the gudgeon pin was tapped out!

I wonder how much time we spend searching for lost parts and then they just turn up!
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Peter_L



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

. and always in the last place we look. Smile
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PAUL BEAUMONT



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wrong Peter, usually in the first place I look, but on about the 10th time of looking there! Confused

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Peter_L



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PAUL BEAUMONT wrote:
Wrong Peter, usually in the first place I look, but on about the 10th time of looking there! Confused

Paul


That's just the Fairies and Goblins being mischievous. They move things and then put them back. Happens in our house all the time.
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Bitumen Boy



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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire

PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this problem all the time. A couple of years ago I was looking for an oil filter - couldn't find any in the garage, figured I must have run out, ordered some more. Few weeks later I found a box with three oil filters in, exactly where I'd thought they should have been, while looking for something else... Rolling Eyes

On the desk where I sit typing this I like to have a pencil to hand. The number of pencils I can find when I want one varies between none and five, seemingly at random, but at least they generally turn up again.
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peppiB



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Last year bottom hose went whilst I was out. Being in my Sunday best I called RAC and said I had a hose. Could I heck find it in the boot. RAC chap came and he couldn't find it either so towed me home. I ordered a couple of new hoses and when they came I went into the boot for a screwdriver to fit it and .... tied neatly together stacked at one side were the hoses neither I nor the RAC man could find a few days before.

When I was restoring my Minor 9 years ago I was forever buying parts and losing them before I got around to fitting so had to buy more. As they eventually turned up one by one, I sold them on fleabay and actually made a profit on most of them, selling to overseas buyers. I remember a sun visor which cost £11 sold to someone in Switzerland for £35
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ukdave2002



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think I'd half the time of jobs if it wasn't for lost parts and lost tools!....I can be working on something put the tool down, not move and the tool has vanished Shocked only to reappear as if by magic Rolling Eyes

I also have a habit of walking across the workshop with a part I my hand, get distracted by something , go back to the job and not recall where I put the part down...

The whole situation has got worse as I have a storage location a couple of miles away.......which one is the part in ????


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goneps



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've got various small parts in various boxes in various places in the garage, and more in the back bedroom cupboard. It's all pretty haphazard, having just developed that way over many years and a number of house moves a long time ago. They really should be properly organised and consolidated more logically, but I know very well that if I do that I'll never be able to find anything.

Dave—how come you're cribbing my work methods?

Richard
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ukdave2002



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

goneps wrote:
Dave—how come you're cribbing my work methods?

Richard


Must be a Morris thing !

I now understand why my Mum sent me to school in the winter with gloves linked together by string that went through my coat !!

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Carcruiser



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It probably is. Manage enough of that myself at work. Having two buildings (work area and storage supposedly) is bad at times. When it snows theres normally a track between the two doors as I've found the spanner or whatever I need is invariably next door...
My usual solution to lost tools, parts etc. is just to do another job until the missing item reappears. Saves the time in looking for the disappeared item..
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BigJohn



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've reaches the age where I have numerous 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", spanners (and metric equivalent) I was always misplacing them so if I see a cheap one at a sale, I'll buy it. Same goes for ratchets and sockets! Saves time searching for something hiding in plain sight. Master of disguise is your 1/2" spanner.
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Bitumen Boy



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigJohn wrote:
I've reaches the age where I have numerous 3/8", 7/16", 1/2", 9/16", spanners (and metric equivalent) I was always misplacing them so if I see a cheap one at a sale, I'll buy it. Same goes for ratchets and sockets! Saves time searching for something hiding in plain sight. Master of disguise is your 1/2" spanner.


I reached that age im my early 20's. I don't know if he still goes, but there used to be a used tool dealer on the Wednesday flea market in Abergavenny that I got a lot of cheap pliers, Stanley knives and so on from that have saved me hours of searching - hours that probably would have added up to weeks or months by now Smile
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I last rebuilt an engine I decided to be organised, so bagged and labeled all the parts, even put comments on the lable, so that if in 6 months time when I came to reassemble I wouldn't forget anything:

Daft thing was the machine shop turned the machining round in 48 hours so it was only a matter of days later that all the bits came out of their bags Rolling Eyes

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baconsdozen



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of the time I have an 'assistant' unfortunately she seems to think her job description involves taking anything with a wooden handle out to the front garden.

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goneps



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lucky you to have an assistant. I have only a supervisor.

Richard


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