How did the itzie bitzie teenie weenie screws leave my work bench?????

[flatcreek]

You always find them in the same place. The last place you look, just look there first. Problem solved.

 

[Rawhide67]

Sometimes the ibtw things hit the floor and then my head goes to an alternate dimension. I might even curse, cuz nothing returns from the floor, no matter how clean I keep it.

 

[SOLANCO]

Small magnetic bowl. Has saved me grief and time over years. $7.59 and free delivery.


https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Tools-...keywords=magnetic+bowls&qid=1698589989&sr=8-3

 

[Tanglefoot]

Ha, had a issue with the Starrett dial caliber as it got out of time. No problem says I, get out the shop light, a nice white hanky, the smallest screw driver I have and take it apart. While doing this dial clock timing I am aware that the IBTW screws are still laying on the white hanky as planned. Ha ha, now the fun starts when I try to put it back together, two screws of the 4,GONE!! What is going on here? Naturally I look the area over two or three times wondering where and how they disappeared?? Moving the parts several times I see nothing but a clean hanky. After changing my mood from friendly to POd, I grabbed the caliper and looked at it.........There were two IBTW screws magnetized to the caliper jaws. Anyway, my mood changed back to Larry the Old fart and put the dial calipers back together. I didn't drop the screws, I just borrowed them to Uncle Murphy.
Moral of this story
Don't ever give up lookin for your IBTW screws.
Larry

PS This is a blow up of 4 IBTW screws : :

 

[Tanglefoot]

What Solanco said.

 

[sussexmuzllodr]

parts gremlin,s

 

[Beaverman2]

Worst place to drop something inside the house is shag carpet. Worst thing to find in shag carpet is a little girl's set of jacks in your bare feet. In the dark.

Naw, finding a fish hook in your foot in your 8 year old sons bedroom and being hooked to the carpet with nobody home but you!

 

[Phil Coffins]

I’m unimpressed by losing wee tiny things, I can lose things much larger stuff! Once an entire lock went missing for two days before I found it in a different room, no idea how it got there.

 

[Larry (Omaha)]

I’m unimpressed by losing wee tiny things, I can lose things much larger stuff! Once an entire lock went missing for two days before I found it in a different room, no idea how it got there.

 

[reddogge]

My best one was I was showing my SIL's neighbor how to field strip his father's between the wars Colt 1911 and the barrel lug pin dropped out and into the shag carpeting. I sweated bullets until I found it but learned a good lesson. Never do anything on a shag carpet and never field strip someone else's valuable gun.

 

[45man]

Nothing worse then spending time to sharpen a chisel and catch the wife using it for a screwdriver. Women are worse then gremlins.

 

[J2shortt]

They always turn up months later after you've bought and installed replacements.

Ain't that the truth. I've switched to getting a flat thin magnet. Putting a piece of paper over the top and after placing the screws in the paper and magnet doing it's job, I draw a circle around the pile of screws and write down what the components the screws go to. Helps me keep things in place in my head and workbench.

 

[Billy Boy]

Ha, had a issue with the Starrett dial caliber as it got out of time. No problem says I, get out the shop light, a nice white hanky, the smallest screw driver I have and take it apart. While doing this dial clock timing I am aware that the IBTW screws are still laying on the white hanky as planned. Ha ha, now the fun starts when I try to put it back together, two screws of the 4,GONE!! What is going on here? Naturally I look the area over two or three times wondering where and how they disappeared?? Moving the parts several times I see nothing but a clean hanky. After changing my mood from friendly to POd, I grabbed the caliper and looked at it.........There were two IBTW screws magnetized to the caliper jaws. Anyway, my mood changed back to Larry the Old fart and put the dial calipers back together. I didn't drop the screws, I just borrowed them to Uncle Murphy.
Moral of this story
Don't ever give up lookin for your IBTW screws.
Larry

PS This is a blow up of 4 IBTW screws : :

Always had a cat in the shop. She (Snoozer), would bee line to the exact spot the little, hardened and tempered, hand fit, two hour part ricocheted after leaving the soft wheel…., caught an occasional rodent as well.

 

[waksupi]

Years ago, I started dismantling things with small parts over a tupperware container. Sure cuts down on hide and seek time!

 

[Scota@4570]

I have several magnetic bowls too. Harbor freight has them cheap. Tumbler flys get taped to the magnetic bowl. I have lost them even after putting them in the magnetic bowl.

When I loose a part I have my wife or son look for me. They often see things I miss.

 

[CaptainKirk]

Magnetic tray.

 

[Colonial Boy]

An old fashioned apron helps, we Army armourers were only allowed to sit whilst working if the job was pistols or instruments [mortar sights, compasses etc.] and we put the end of the apron in the work bench draw. I still do it and it’s saved a lot of unseemly words., and little parts, that said there is a bridle screw from an Enfield waiting to be found when I clean up thoroughly.

 

[BadDaditood]

Nothing worse then spending time to sharpen a chisel and catch the wife using it for a screwdriver. Women are worse then gremlins.

Yes! I have more than one spendy Pfiel paint can opener!!

 

[deerstalkert]

Small magnetic bowl. Has saved me grief and time over years. $7.59 and free delivery.


https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Tools-...keywords=magnetic+bowls&qid=1698589989&sr=8-3

I have and use 3 of them. one by each vise. i think, i can't remember seeing the blue one for a while. hope it hasn't gone walk-a-bout. it has all those little things like a fly from a lock i am polishing.

 

[Beaverman2]

Yes! I have more than one spendy Pfiel paint can opener!!

Thats why I bought the wife her own small roll away and basic tool set 25 years ago, I've trained her well and she asks permission to get into my boxes or tools off the bench!