The Rodding Roundtable
Motorhead Message Central => Rodder's Roundtable => Topic started by: Crosley.In.AZ on October 08, 2006, 02:07:14 PM
I mounted a new light to my shop exterior wall.
the ladder is called an 8 foot unit, although I doubt it really is 8 feet tall.
I had the fumbles this AM so that worked well with trying mount the fixture onto the wall. I took the phillips head screws out so I could go inside and shorten them 1/4 inch at my work bench.
I get the screws shortened then go back outside. I then climb up the ladder.... no phillips screw driver. :evil:
With 4 decades of experience at tool mis-placement I climbed back down the ladder , walked backed to my bench and retrieved the screw driver from where I had carried it............ then set it down about 30 feet away from the job site.
Am I alone at this highly trained / experieince thing of carrying off tools to set them down away from where you are working?
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Quote from: "Crosley"
Am I alone at this highly trained / experieince thing of carrying off tools to set them down away from where you are working?
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HAHA. I normally set things down in my basement, and have to go down a couple flights of stairs :P
Walt
You are NOT alone Crosley........but if you think THATS bad.....try a Golden Retriever with a penchant for stealing your tools WHILE you are working on a project........THAT will REALLY drive ya up a wall :lol:
Sounds to me like you may suffer from "old age syndrome" The other day, I'm visiting with a friend who is my age and I stated, I don't have any parts that work like they used to. End of statement.
That's not normal? I was putting cove molding trim on my front porch posts this morning...went like this..carry molding out to porch from garage behind house...walk back around house to get a pencil to mark molding...mark molding and carry it back to garage and cut it, prime it anc carry it back out front... go back and get drill so i don't split molding, go back and get the right bit,...walk back to garage to get nails, and hammer..nail molding on...walk back to get nailset....countersink nails...walk back to get wood filler to fill holes. Let everything dry and sand filler and get ready to paint. Go to garage and get paint and take it out front...go back into house and get brush from basement...finaly got it finished and went back in the house to watch the end of the Lions game :roll: , look out front window and see sunglasses and wood putty still on front porch. Seems normal to me...
Quote from: "SKR8PN"You are NOT alone Crosley........but if you think THATS bad.....try a Golden Retriever with a penchant for stealing your tools WHILE you are working on a project........THAT will REALLY drive ya up a wall :lol:
I had a female German shep dog years ago that would do that when she was a young pup... I was hearing this 'thud' noise in my garage as i worked on a 48 chev truck I owned then.
I look around and she is trying to get my 3 pound sledge hammer out the side door of the garage. :!:
I was putting a tail light together the other day, and somehow lost the screws that hold the lens on, a three hand job at best. After speending 20 minutes looking for them, I drove up town, and got two more screws. I found the other two a couple days later, in plain sight.
I do that all the time Crosley. After about two times of going back to get something, though, I finally smart up and take my tool belt or bag with me and hang it on the ladder, or wherever I'm mainly working. You would think that after forty plus years of carrying my tools on my belt or in a bag hung from my shoulders, I'd have the drill down pat - but, NO-ooo! :roll: :(D) :lol: Also, that's what pockets are for. :P :mrgreen: :b-d:
i "usta" blame the kid... :? then he grew up and moved away... :wink:
then it was the dog , but after a time the good old thing went to a better
place :( , here's a flash for you guys, i think its an evil plot on the part of the wife she's out to get me :wink: ,it can't be my advanced years :shock:
look for the signs,finding loose box end wrenches sitting in strange places... on the washmachine etc etc... its a plot i tell you! :D
If I leave something 30 or more feet away, I'll get down off the ladder then about halfway to it I'll forget what I was looking for. Then I see something that I lost the other day and just start working on that project. Later I'll walk by the ladder and wonder who left that out. :?
see i told ya! :roll: ,hot rod wifes are getting together trying to
drive us all mad :roll: :wink:
Quote from: "enjenjo"I was putting a tail light together the other day, and somehow lost the screws that hold the lens on, a three hand job at best. After speending 20 minutes looking for them, I drove up town, and got two more screws. I found the other two a couple days later, in plain sight.
LOL......... I dropped many items on this install. found all but one small plastic sealing washer. So after loooking a bit , I finished the install.
Later that day Janice is checking out the light. I look down on the side walk and there lies the * little washer.... I tossed it in the trash
I put in two new windows above the kitchen sink yesterday; they've been painted shut since before I bought the house in '99. Got the first one in, then reached for the brush to clean up all the paint chips, etc. on the kitchen sink before going on to the other one. Looked for the brush, and finally saw it outside onthe window sill...of the window that wouldn't open. It was easier going outside to get it rather than remove the screen from the new window.
That light looks familiar?
(http://hotrodsbyglen.net/shop072406f.jpg)
Quote from: "Glen"That light looks familiar?
(http://hotrodsbyglen.net/shop072406f.jpg)
you sure both of your lights are still on your new work shop ?
:arrow: :lol:
I know how to find a tool or part that has been lost...just go buy another one and I can almost guarrantee that you will find the first one like it was said earlier in this post.
But I guess it doesn't work all of the time...when working on my '40 Chevy, I had the motor mounts out. Well one of them must have rolled off of the counter and into the garbage because I had to buy another set and when the new ones came, I did not find the lost one. But if I ever do, I have it's mate.
I went to Louisville one year and bought one of those Secret Audio stereos. When I got home, I took it out and looked at it. Telling myself the whole time that I had better put it back up quickly before I loose something. Well I didn't and the instructions turned up lost. The unit had the wiring diagram printed on the underside so I was able to install it. Last year I was at a rod run and saw someone else with the same kind of unit and asked them if they had their instructions and they did (have them in the car). So I took them inside the motel and made some copies at the front desk.
What gets me is when you loose something and then when you find it, you realize that you have walked by it one million times! And the part or tool has probably been laughing at you the whole time if it could laugh.
Remote controls for the tv must have something bult in to them from the factory to make them get lost. We've all done it. When you loose the remote, you walk by the tv (where you could of used a knob on the set but noooo you've got to do it by remote). They should come with an attachment on them to where you could clap your hands and it would beep.
AL
Quote from: "40chevy"When you loose the remote, ....... They should come with an attachment on them
to where you could clap your hands and it would beep.
AL
You can buy one Al. :idea:
https://www.vacationgadgets.com/productmgmt/results.asp?nCatID=18&nSubCatID=144&sSubCat=Find+It
Quote from: "purplepickup"You can buy one Al. :idea:
https://www.vacationgadgets.com/productmgmt/results.asp?nCatID=18&nSubCatID=144&sSubCat=Find+It
Hey, that's great...now will it work 30' away??
Like George said, I often go to get something and halfway there forget what I'm looking for. But, when we were going through the '32 before the Roadster Show trip - did a lot of upgrades, I found myself at least twice walking around looking for something only to realize that I was holding it in my hand. Now that's scary. As far as remotes go, two of us lost our radio remotes about the time we got to LA. I know I left mine sitting on the car a drove off. Retraced the route but never found it. My buddy Tom couldn't find his until he was folding his clean laundry. Yup, there it was all nice and clean. Put a new battery in and it worked find. I called Sony and ordered a new one with two day shipping to have for the trip back to Florida. Took over a week to make it to LA and Normspeed had to ship it to me. But that's another story.
Lee
great picture...
You should enter it in a photo contest. I think I spotted my drill on the first step.