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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 4170 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:16 pm Post subject: Lost Parts... |
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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! _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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. and always in the last place we look.  |
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:51 pm Post subject: |
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Wrong Peter, usually in the first place I look, but on about the 10th time of looking there!
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Peter_L
Joined: 10 Apr 2008 Posts: 2680 Location: New Brunswick. Canada.
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 1:56 pm Post subject: |
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PAUL BEAUMONT wrote: | Wrong Peter, usually in the first place I look, but on about the 10th time of looking there!
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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
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1763 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 2:01 pm Post subject: |
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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...
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
Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 686 Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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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
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4231 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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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 only to reappear as if by magic
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
Joined: 18 Jun 2013 Posts: 601 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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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?
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4231 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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goneps wrote: | Dave—how come you're cribbing my work methods?
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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
Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 89 Location: Worcestershire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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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.. _________________ cheers
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BigJohn
Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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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
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1763 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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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  |
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4231 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2015 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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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
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baconsdozen

Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.
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goneps
Joined: 18 Jun 2013 Posts: 601 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2015 1:06 am Post subject: |
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Lucky you to have an assistant. I have only a supervisor.
Richard
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