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    BobL is offline Member: Blue and white apron brigade
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    Default Losing stuff in the shed

    Last Sunday morning I used my spring loaded centre punch but a few hours later I could not find it. I keep my punches in a shelf with holes in it to suit the size of the punch and this particular punch has a gold anodised outer shell so it is usually very easy to see it on the shelf or if it falls on the floor.

    I searched the usual places. Got down on hands and knees with a torch to look under benches etc, even got a bit of swarf embedded in a knee for my efforts, but no luck fining san punch.

    I have other non-spring loaded punches which I used, but I really liked that punch and wanted to recover it. My usual tactic is to start a tidy up and eventually it surfaces but still no luck. Doing the week I looked for it again several times also nothing.

    Yesterday I was in the hardware store and decided to buy another one. When I got it home and opened the packet to put the new one in the hole in the rack where I kept the old one - there it was! just two holes away from its usual place.

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    Must be age. Happens to me too.

    John

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    Hi Bob
    You are not alone in this Bob. It may be the reason I have a couple of the same punches that you mention, several sizes of prick punches, center punches

    and one or two of the big b*******s. Same with the hammers and chisels.

    It goes the same for rules, tape measures and other small hand tools.

    I do have homes, places for these tools to be returned to, but tend to do the job and clean up later and said tools rarely get returned to home base.

    Drill indexes seem to be the exception in this, maybe because I can,'t stand the good drill bits mixed with the dungers.

    I know what the first job is in the shed, today!

    Thank you, Bob!


    Grahame

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    its a real bugger when you get older
    If something drops on the floor I have to remember to pick it up immediately or I forget where I last put or saw it...happens frequently...so much so that I am wondering if SWMBO is right...i have dementia...lol
    but i can still do crosswords...much to her annoyance

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    Next time you're on your hands and knees looking for stuff, see if you can find any of my tools I haven't been able to find. I often enlist the wife's help in finding things, she often cleans up the shed for me and is getting quite good at tool recognition, certainly, she has better eyesight than me, more often than not what I can't find is usually on the bench in front of me.

    Springs!!! What a pain they are, they hit the floor and usually end up behind something as far from the drop point as is possible.

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    About 10 years ago I was taking apart an old chainsaw pump when a small ball bearing and a spring popped out of a hole and shot across the shed. Luckily it landed in a nearby by cardboard box - I didn't see it but I heard a distinctive sound that told me where it was and sure enough that is where it was. The ball bearing was another matter. I got on my hands and needs about found about 20 ball bearings because a day before I had taken a bike apart and lots of bearings had spilled onto the floor. This time I had another clue - after taking the bike wheel apart I had made some dust and all the bearings from the bike were slightly dusty but the one from the CS oiler was still quite bright sitting in a

    Anyway I'll look for yours if you look for mine. Im missing an electrical meter, my electrical tape roll, a 3/16" hex key and, , , , , , , , , ,

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    That's great now I don't feel so dopey

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    I think you blokes are doing ok in the scheme of things, yep, I am at the next stage now because not only do I misplace things but now find myself staring into a cupboard or shelf
    and can't remember what I am looking for

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    It's starting to happen to me too, next step will be a checklist to tick off for everything I do

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    Bob while still down in Sydney I lost a neat little Stainless Steel rule Imp and Metric dropped down behind the bench and a 5mm lead retractable pencil either end of the workshop to each other 3 clean ups and a total emptying of the single garage resulted in not finding them when we moved. Glad it wasn't one of the pencils I made still can't locate that either but at least i know its in the study.

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    I was going to write something here but I've forgotten what it was???

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    Nice to know I'm not the only one to loose stuff in the shed. Mind you. I've a good excuse, trying to condense 3 sheds into one, as I'm extending the shed from 6 m to 14 m X 4m.
    Kryn.
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    Kryn,
    With a shed that big you will way more places to loose things. Yesterday I had a parcel delivered and reached for my box cutter knife only to find it as blunt as, I knew I had more than one of these so I went through all my tool boxes and cupboard and now I have six of them sitting in a little cubbie hole of there own right at eye level. I will now have no excuses for not putting them back in place after use.
    Bob

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    I know it's a reasonable size, but 6metres of each end will be for metalwork and that burnable stuff, while the middle 2m will be where I'll have DP, bench grinders for sharpening etc. as it'll be a mixed area. After 11 years with a dirt floor, it'll be heaven.
    Kryn
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    I reckon if I threw a dozen #2 phillips head screwdrivers in the air none would hit the ground.

    Must have bought 100's of. Dunno where they're all hiding!

    (mos likely they've run off with the 10mm 1/4" sockets.)

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