Stuff falling on the shop floor

[Jerry Dunlap]

So, I'm forever knocking tools on the shop floor or dropping nuts, bolts and screws. Not sure it is an "Age Thing" since I've done since I was a kid.

Anyway, had a different experience this afternoon getting my boats prepared for a race tomorrow. I moved a boat off bench and heard something hit the floor. I took a quick look at the time and since I didn't see anything figured it couldn't be all that much.

I set another boat on the bench and looked for the radio box tape. Since it was not on the bench I knew that it was the tape that fell on the shop floor. Tape isn't like most stuff I knock to the floor - it is round - and if it hits just right it will roll. After spending probably 5 minutes looking around where the bench was located and not finding the tape, I widened the search. The tape had rolled a good 8 - 10 feet under another table. Since this is my only roll of radio box tape I was greatly relieved to locate it.

JD

 

[happybradboating]

Get more radio box tape! I have all kinds that seem to work differently on each radio box. Then there is FE boats that need the heavy duty hockey tape.

 

[Wally Marsh]

Hey Jerry, same for me, seems like s**t always happens then with age it really happens, A LOT! Coming from another over 60 club member.

Wallster

 

[Blaise Recca]

I epoxy coated the shop floor with the specked stuff. Really great stuff until you drop a small part like the last piston c clip or another small screw or item. I gave up on looking for the dropped parts. It all looks the same down there now.

 

[Wally Marsh]

I lost several 21 c clips over the years, getting our house ready to sell a few years back and found one on the window sill LOL

 

[Ray Sametz]

I dropped a small set screw ( only had 1 that size) could not find it nowhere. I was pissed, that night found it in the cuff of my Lee jeans when I undressed.

 

[Hydro Junkie]

JD, sounds like you need to put up some pegboard and hooks for things like radio box tape. Then again, heaven knows how many things have been "eaten" by my floors, both in the garage and in the house. Actually had a part get caught in my hair once, many moons ago. Found it several hours later, combing my hair before leaving the house

 

[Charles Perdue]

Once I was buffing on a prop, then suddenly the buffing wheel ate it....I searched high and low for quiet a while, could not find it. About a month later I happened to look up. There it was, the prop was stuck into a piece of foam that I had stored in the shop rafters.

Charles

 

[JimZaremski]

any auto mechanic will tell you that if you drop a tool (socket, extension, etc.) while working underhood, it will find its way to the exact geometric center of the car after it hits the floor.

100% of the time.