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never to be seen again. Been looking since Thursday.
Working on a Yamaha 6hp 4stroke outboard, the oil plug bolt and a Grommet on the lower unit "disappeared". I never walked away with them, I laid them right beside the other parts -> GONE. I've searched high & low & left & right. Gone. Maybe a crow flew in and grabbed them when I had my back turned?
It did cause me to clean my toolbox up really well, even sprayed a couple of coats of white paint in the bottom.
Pant pockets/trashcan/ everything off of bench/hung in a socket? - nope/>>> damn crows or a Ghos-s I reckon
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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BTDT! . I looked for the bolt for an O3-A3 one time for a year. A week after I got the replacement, I found the old one. Somehow, in stashing the rifle, the bolt release got triggered and the bolt slid out down into a dark recess. Not the only such incident either.
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Laying on the trailer frame?
Have the hood off and lay em in the bottom cowl?
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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If you have cuffs in your pants or have them rolled up, check them. I had that happen once and spent 45 minutes tearing my garage apart looking for a lost screw, and it dropped out of my rolled up pants cuff getting ready to take a shower. I've also "lost" parts in my shirt pockets when I put them there so I won't lose them.
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And the time a spring for a Savage rifle went sproing. After getting and installing the replacement, I found the original stuck in a crack between the logs, just over head high.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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In 1980, I was helping my Uncle rebuild a three point mounted post hole auger. We took the center point off the auger, and I set it down somewhere in a 24' by 36' (quite cluttered) shop.
Two hours later, we were fabricating a new center point for the auger. The original has not been found to this day.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
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Trash can?? Had a check in my hands once when I got out of the truck one night after work. Gathered up what few trash items were in the truck from that day. Check got tossed with the trash.
Same deal, looked high and low until I just happened to remember the trash.
The last time that bear ate a lawyer he had the runs for 33 days!
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Did that with my tax return one year, and had to do a do-over. I remember it well, because as a college student with only summer and part-time semester jobs, I paid more taxes that year than President Nixon. Who says crime doesn't pay? So, see? Nixon's income mostly just disappeared. Somehow. He's one of us!!!
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Laying on the trailer frame?
Have the hood off and lay em in the bottom cowl? Engine laying on a workbench table , beach towel over table , everything taken off the table checking anything either part could have been in. Searched down inside bottom cowl bright light , turned engine upside down etc. , nope. just started back working on it after leaving it sit for over a year, reason>. I took the lower unit off to change the impeller, a Collar that lines the unit up rolls off the table. I watched it roll off the concrete edge of the carport, bright daylight - watched and saw right where it went. Never found it , went and bought one of the big magnet nail picker upper things roofers use. Found all kinds of metal stuff but not the collar. It was rolling at a speed that it might have went 6'' over the edge - 8-10'' drop. Freshly cut lawn - very little grass anyway.
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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Firing pin for my Hi-Power got launched into outer space or another dimension. Not sure which.
--- CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE --- A Magic Time To Be An Illegal In America---
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Uh-huh. M 70 firing pin collar, or retainer- some little damned thing anyway. Found it with a magnet out on the gravel drive ( range? about 55 feet) , and on the next attempt, made sure the garage bay door was down. That was a good move - the 3rd attempt was the charm.
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Did you check your pockets? Haha
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I did get a good tips off of YT [youtube] , I put a new impeller in my 2.5hp Yamaha -started it sitting in a 5-gallon bucket of water. No water peeing out - aw-shucks- . YT guy said use a fine wire and work it around in the out-port - tiny spiders lay eggs in there. Sure enough little wad of grey matter spider web BS in there. Back in the 5-gal. bucket - works fine , except it idles way too high for some reason. So I gave up on it and started trying to get the 6hp going.
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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I'm already pissy Jeffery and you ain't helping matters . Anaconda , yes all 10mm sockets ,, makes for an easy tool-kit.
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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5gal buckets on job site...
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Detents for an AR receiver. Someday when I’m bored, I think I’ll launch one over the chronograph to see if it will read that fast!
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Happens round here too. So much, in fact, that we use the term lightning musta struck it. Black holes do exist you know. Still searching for my Rogue keys, house & tool box keys and a Spyderco Endura that I had carried for almost 30 years. Disappeared when I came down with Covid and had to be hospitalized and away from home 14 months.
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My compressor, out of the bed of my truck this past Tuesday night.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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OP. You probably sat it next to the keyboard to type this and then when you were done, picked it up again. Been there, done that type of thing.
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