[MRCA] Small Part Search

Thomas Chirhart k4ncgva at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 22:50:20 EDT 2022


I keep a clothes lint roller handy.. a few sweeps and I usually find it - PLUS I get a lead on cleaning the low pile carpet…
Stainless steel hardware is not a challenge..
73
Tom K4NCG 

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> On Aug 3, 2022, at 10:42 PM, J Mcvey via MRCA <mrca at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a harvested speaker magnet on a rope that I drag around the floor when all else fails.
> I find things I wasn't even looking for. Probably from the guy who lost it in the other alternate universe.
> Yes, they do indeed go in the junk box.
> 
> On Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 10:20:25 PM EDT, Tom B <tbryan at nova.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Breck,
> 
> I am convinced that small parts that are dropped go into another 
> basement in and alternate universe version of Earth.   These parts are 
> picked up there by an alternate Earth hobbyist, and not knowing what 
> they go to, are tossed into a junk box where they spend eternity.  
> Anybody want to counter that theory?
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On 8/3/2022 10:06 PM, B. Smith wrote:
> > When you drop a small part such as a 2-26 nut  do you search for it 
> > for a few minutes with a bright light and those 4X glasses  or just 
> > give up right away? Since my shop  floor in the shop is in bad shape I 
> > usually just surrender, call off the search,  and replace the nut  
> > from my parts bin. But if I continue the search I often find small 
> > parts that I  lost last month.
> > Z
> >
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