Sammo
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Afternoon,
I know that about three months ago I bought a steering wheel boss for my Metro. It was delivered to work along with some other bits I bought and then I put everything in the boot of the Metro before bringing the Metro home. Today I’ve gone to fit the boss and new steering wheel to the Metro. Opened the boot, taken the steering wheel out and then gone to look for the boss. It’s nowhere to be found! I’ve searched the whole car, searched the house, the shed and the garage. I know it’s not at work as I’ve brought everything home. So what have I done with it?!?!
Does this happen to anyone else? I find it so frustrating haha!!
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Order a new one, you'll find it 10 minutes later  |
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Sammo
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 1,461
Club RR Member Number: 103
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Order a new one, you'll find it 10 minutes later Haha always the guaranteed way to find something you’ve lost |
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fogey
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This works the other way too: I order certain size nuts and bolts for example, put them in the garage, come across them again 2 months later and can't remember what I needed them for. . .  |
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The first secret to losing fewer bits is to label the packaging, but the best way is to bolt all the parts together.
If I were Sammo, I'd be checking to see if the boss is attached to the wheel.
Make sure to dispose of all the old parts once the job is complete and proven to work.
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I do this a lot, especially with tools. Very annoying, and I tend to buy again and then come across them a year later doing a tidy up of the house or garage. Same applies for parts. I must have many multiples of certain tools
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Sammo
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 1,461
Club RR Member Number: 103
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The first secret to losing fewer bits is to label the packaging, but the best way is to bolt all the parts together. If I were Sammo, I'd be checking to see if the boss is attached to the wheel. Make sure to dispose of all the old parts once the job is complete and proven to work. First thing I did was open the box with the wheel inside to check I hadn’t put the boss in there too |
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I seem to lose my car keys most weekends….perhaps it’s my age , put them somewhere safe
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1999 Jaguar s type
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bstardchild
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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Sort of related........... OK really on the edge but bear with me
Be glad you don't live with Mrs BC
15 years ago I replaced the kitchen light with a 5 spot light rail - trouble was the ceiling joists run from side to side and the light rail runs in the same direction so I could only get one screw into the ceiling joist the other wouldn't grip in plasterboard and it wobbles when she waves a duster at it
So what I needed was some toggle spring fittings to fix both sides firmly and securely but I didn't have any so I left it
Clearly this wobble annoys Mrs BC so she put it on her "sh1t list" (this is my job list in case anyone is confused)
Eventually it reached the top of the list (or the bottom but only thing not crossed out) So I bought some and put them in a kitchen drawer ready for fitting and crossed it off the sh!t list (cos fixings bought is done right???)
When I went to do the task I found that they had vanished as "DIY stuff" doesn't live in the kitchen - trouble is she doesn't know where she moved them too - this isn't unusual
She added it to the list again at the bottom
So I buy some more and put them in the kitchen drawer and I crossed it off the list
They disappeared too
This process has been repeated maybe 8 times in 15 years
She still doesn't know where any of them are - it's the only item not crossed off the current list and they are not in the kitchen drawer (again)
Question is do I buy some more???
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I lost the brass mounting that fits around the handbrake rod on my MK2 Jag, I was sure I put it in my car when I moved a load of stuff but I couldn't find it when I needed it.
I searched the garage at my mums where I collected it from, from top to bottom, had all the boxes out and still it was missing.
I had all the boxes and cupboards out in my garages at home and even bid on one on ebay. After a while I went to check the tyre pressures on my car and when I had the spare out the part I was looking for had slipped into the spare wheel well and with the bouncing around must have managed to go under the tyre and was sat in the middle in the labelled bag I had put it in when I first removed it.
The one I bid on was one of these e-bay make offer things and I offered £15 and the buyer wouldn't take less than £17.50 so in the end I managed to save money and co-incidentally 12 months later the part from the original seller is still on ebay unsold. He should have taken my money as it may be a part you can't buy new but it also doesn't wear out or break and so unless you are a chump like me no one ever needs one so its pretty much worthless as every car had one fitted and they are all the same.
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Sort of related........... OK really on the edge but bear with me Be glad you don't live with Mrs BC 15 years ago I replaced the kitchen light with a 5 spot light rail - trouble was the ceiling joists run from side to side and the light rail runs in the same direction so I could only get one screw into the ceiling joist the other wouldn't grip in plasterboard and it wobbles when she waves a duster at it So what I needed was some toggle spring fittings to fix both sides firmly and securely but I didn't have any so I left it Clearly this wobble annoys Mrs BC so she put it on her "sh1t list" (this is my job list in case anyone is confused) Eventually it reached the top of the list (or the bottom but only thing not crossed out) So I bought some and put them in a kitchen drawer ready for fitting and crossed it off the sh!t list (cos fixings bought is done right???) When I went to do the task I found that they had vanished as "DIY stuff" doesn't live in the kitchen - trouble is she doesn't know where she moved them too - this isn't unusual She added it to the list again at the bottom So I buy some more and put them in the kitchen drawer and I crossed it off the list They disappeared too This process has been repeated maybe 8 times in 15 years She still doesn't know where any of them are - it's the only item not crossed off the current list and they are not in the kitchen drawer (again) Question is do I buy some more??? No, you have kept up your end of the deal, if your wife can't find them thats her look out and you should just scrub it off the to do list. My wife is the same, you can't leave anything anywhere she can get to as she is a serial mover. Anything that she doesn't think is in the right place gets moved but she doesn't usally know where she has put it. |
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bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 71
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Sort of related........... OK really on the edge but bear with me Be glad you don't live with Mrs BC 15 years ago I replaced the kitchen light with a 5 spot light rail - trouble was the ceiling joists run from side to side and the light rail runs in the same direction so I could only get one screw into the ceiling joist the other wouldn't grip in plasterboard and it wobbles when she waves a duster at it So what I needed was some toggle spring fittings to fix both sides firmly and securely but I didn't have any so I left it Clearly this wobble annoys Mrs BC so she put it on her "sh1t list" (this is my job list in case anyone is confused) Eventually it reached the top of the list (or the bottom but only thing not crossed out) So I bought some and put them in a kitchen drawer ready for fitting and crossed it off the sh!t list (cos fixings bought is done right???) When I went to do the task I found that they had vanished as "DIY stuff" doesn't live in the kitchen - trouble is she doesn't know where she moved them too - this isn't unusual She added it to the list again at the bottom So I buy some more and put them in the kitchen drawer and I crossed it off the list They disappeared too This process has been repeated maybe 8 times in 15 years She still doesn't know where any of them are - it's the only item not crossed off the current list and they are not in the kitchen drawer (again) Question is do I buy some more??? No, you have kept up your end of the deal, if your wife can't find them thats her look out and you should just scrub it off the to do list. My wife is the same, you can't leave anything anywhere she can get to as she is a serial mover. Anything that she doesn't think is in the right place gets moved but she doesn't usally know where she has put it. I'm so glad I'm not alone |
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Never happened to me, don’t know what you’re on about 😉
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bstardchild
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Never happened to me, don’t know what you’re on about 😉 You either 1. live alone 2. Are being sarcastic for comedic effect and know exactly the pain we go thro 3. Genuinely are 1 in 1,000,000 in which case I doff my hat sir I really need to find a Lotus Carlton Crank shaft - I mean it's not exactly small and yet I can't bloody find it - it's definitely somewhere really safe |
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stealthstylz
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I lost a customer's engine. Stripped and cleaned it, chucked it all on a pallet truck to take it up top but then ended up going out on a delivery for a few hours. Got back and it was home time so went home. Went in the next day, couldn't find engine. Searched everywhere, engine gone. Went in our storage container and dug out enough bits to build a matching engine. Built that and it got fitted in his van and away it went.
Last day before Christmas just gone (so 3 years later) I moved a upside down storage crate we've had outside in the yard and the pallet with the engine on was under there, with surprisingly only surface rust.
And that's why I'm now the definitely not proud owner of a blown up Volkswagen T6 that will only make me proud when I sell it for a small fortune with the engine I found and will rebuild fitted.
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Afternoon, I know that about three months ago I bought a steering wheel boss for my Metro. It was delivered to work along with some other bits I bought and then I put everything in the boot of the Metro before bringing the Metro home. Today I’ve gone to fit the boss and new steering wheel to the Metro. Opened the boot, taken the steering wheel out and then gone to look for the boss. It’s nowhere to be found! I’ve searched the whole car, searched the house, the shed and the garage. I know it’s not at work as I’ve brought everything home. So what have I done with it?!?! Does this happen to anyone else? I find it so frustrating haha!! Don't worry, obviously you put it in a "safe" place... when you do eventually find it - you know, after you have bought another one or, no longer need it - please do check the "safe" place for all the stuff that I, and everyone else, misplaced... |
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I bought a new water pump, and thought I had some spare gaskets in my storage box. I found the water pump gasket + the spare water pump I’d bought a few months earlier!
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dragon
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I have a place for everything and everything has a place with different cars. So I rewired the trailer into the waterproof box taking care as its upside down when mounted. Then the lid has gone missing. So I order a new one. It duly arrives so I go to fit it only to find a lid sat on the seat of one of the cars. Lid fitted and I now have a spare. I have a matching pair of cars that eventually can be towed (like the ones you see behind a motor home). So as I need to modify the wiring loom and add "trailer" wiring I now need another box. I give up and have also learned that I should never tidy up as things that were there and needed have now vanished.
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madmog
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Club RR Member Number: 46
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Jan 17, 2023 10:23:41 GMT
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Buy some more put them in the drawer. Remove them yourself before she does. Rant about her moving them. Wait a week or two put the removed ones back as 'bought some more'. Rinse and repeat.
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