Speaking of Shop Realities ...

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Why is it when you are working on a car and you drop a bolt it always rolls under the hottest part of the exhaust system?
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I dropped a bolt down between the ex manifold and the head and just replaced it with another.
The following day, the starter motor started running by itself.
The dropped bolt wiggled itself right over the starter motor cable lugs.
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Why is it that if you have any opening in the floor, a dropped object will most always roll toward it? Or into it?

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Typical day in the shop
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LOL@Rick! I did just that last night while mounting a DRO scale on my mill......
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If it can, it will,...............and it did. :roll: :wink: :x



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Somewhere in my shop is about 5# of dropped hardware. When my children clean out the garage/shop they will wonder why I stored all that stuff under and behind things.
My favorite stupid thing is leaving the micrometers in a bolt box and then spending days off and on looking for it. Fortunately I needed a similar bolt just before I spent the $$$ for a new set of mics.
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How come when you throw something out because you'll never use it,,,,,,you need it.
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earlgo writes:
> My favorite stupid thing is leaving the micrometers in a bolt box and then spending days off and on looking for it.

I don't know how many times I've put myself in a state of frustration by putting something away in the wrong place. When I don't find it where it belongs my first reaction, of course, is "I left it out again. Now, where did use it last? Not there. Ok. Start searching." Eventually I give up and start on something else. I open the drawer with the milling clamps in it. There's my voltmeter.
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My reality is why does installing one additional electrical circuit in my cleaned up shop end up looking like this?
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When I need a 12" piece of 1" round bar, and the longest pieces I have on hand are 11-1/4, 11-1/2, and 11-3/4"...

It would be funny if similar things didn't happen so often. So a lot of projects start with "weld up two small pieces into a big-enough piece..."
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Just this morning I couldn't find my shingle hatchet. I used it a few weeks ago... it's not in the 'roofing' bucket... looked all over the shop... nowhere.

I found it while looking for something else. It was in a bucket... the wrong one!! Now I have to fix the shop roof before it rains tomorrow.

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