CZ93X62
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Such occurrence are outside my experience--entirely. Right........
Ruger New Model Blackhawk, New Vaquero Problem
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RBHarter
West Central AR
They call that a 40 foot bounce around airports.
The flying springs have nothing on helplessly watching the fumbled $8 base nut does the pochenko bounce off the cylinder base studs into the guts of a $25,000 engine .
Good news the magnetic pick up tool not only picked the lost pochenko nut but 2 more just like it , a rod nut , 3 cotter keys , and about 8" of wadded safety wire ......I get the extra nuts and even the keys but the .040 safety wire remains a mystery.
The flying springs have nothing on helplessly watching the fumbled $8 base nut does the pochenko bounce off the cylinder base studs into the guts of a $25,000 engine .
Good news the magnetic pick up tool not only picked the lost pochenko nut but 2 more just like it , a rod nut , 3 cotter keys , and about 8" of wadded safety wire ......I get the extra nuts and even the keys but the .040 safety wire remains a mystery.
Ian
Notorious member
Every mechanic I've seen work in any industry will do the same thing when he drops a tool or small part. He hops and jerks both feet from under himself and lands a half-step back, watching the object with laser focus as it hits the floor and jets off into never-never land at lightspeed. Reason for the reflex? When you drop something from a standing position it will always hit exactly on the toe of your boot and jet under and to the most impossible to reach spot of the floor under theworkbench, toolbox, or vehicle. If you jerk both feet back before it hits them there's a better chance of seeing where the thing goes. That of course downplays the statistical average that a special nut, freshly cleaned and dosed with threadlocker, will take the 30⁰ trajectory window under the workbench into a pile of metal dust and cobwebs 98% more often than it will go the other 330⁰ and settle on the clean, painted floor.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Anyone ever notice it's never the Grade 3 Hardware store quality 5/16" coarse thread nut that makes the leap into an alternate universe? No sir, it's always the special order, last one in the USA, odd ball, one of a kind nut/spring/shim/etc that vanishes! Wish I could get my bills to do that!
Finding things that shouldn't be where they end up- I found a cross chain from a set of tractor snow chains in the final drive of a little Deere crawler trying to get a 1/2" nut outta there!!! No way that chain should ahve been there, much less that it had been there for a good long time!
Finding things that shouldn't be where they end up- I found a cross chain from a set of tractor snow chains in the final drive of a little Deere crawler trying to get a 1/2" nut outta there!!! No way that chain should ahve been there, much less that it had been there for a good long time!