Ever lost a tool, then FOUND IT a long time later...
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I installed our new stove about a year and a half ago. Yesterday I had to pull it out to paint the base trim on the cabinets and when I pulled the bottom drawer to push the cord back under the stove I found this exactly as it is in the pic. I adjusted the feet to get it level with my 1/4" drive ratchet. I looked *almost* everywhere for the little booger and couldn't find it :lol: I honestly couldn't believe it was just still sitting there on the bolt, like it was waiting for me... But that's not the best part. I thought it was so funny I had to take a pic and show y'all, so I did. THEN I installed the drawer... walked away... *explicative*... removed the drawer... got the ratchet out... reinstalled drawer... |
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Yes, lost a 5/8 socket from a Shap On set I bought in 1977. I was just about sick over that. After putting my ls in the truck I could not find it anywhere. About 2 months later I moved a motor stand I made to haul it in the back of the truck with. As I turned the thing over, out it falls.
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Right now I am looking for my hacksaw which by the way is the second one I have lost in the past five years I have no clue where I put it but when I do find them I will resurrect this thread. lol
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I do it all the time. Usually not left "in action" like that....but put somewhere for "safe keeping" or "convenient" so that it will be close the next time I need it.
I've also found a few tools. My favorite being a super long set of needle nose pliers found in my 80Z28 about a year after a trip to a transmission shop for work on a 700R4 swap.......was wedged in the rad support and I found it when detailing the engine bay.. |
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Lost a large Snap-On pry bar once after working on a car. A few months later the car returned for a tune up, and there it was sitting in the engine bay...
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All done. Stove back in place, back of the "bar" cabinet and all the trim painted... wife is happy. Still have to paint all of the crown... I'll probably wait to do that when I have a long weekend or holiday off.
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I bought a 84 chevy 3/4 ton pu from a co. that I worked for and when I pulled the trans & transfer case out I had to drop the exhaust and out dropped a 1/2" combo wrench.I didn't lose it but I fond it.
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That kitchen looks NICE,I didn't lose this but I found a tool sorta. My dad raced stock cars in the 60's and I helped in the pits. One nite the local Bad AZZ was being himself and pushed a guy thru the fence. When he pulled into the pits a guy thru a SK breaker bar and sparkplug socket at him it bounced off his car and hit me in the back. I kept it for my PAIN and suffering
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That's my problem, Too many places to put things for "safe keeping". Then when I need it I can't remember which place I put it and end up looking ALL over. !!! :banghead: |
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Back in '94 I bought a bright yellow handled SPYDERCO CATCHERMAN folding fillet knife thinking I'd never lose that sucker because it stood out like a sore thumb. Six months later I'm working on my 74 C10 installing new hose's and cutting the heater hoses to fit.
Well nature calls so I go inside to take care of business. come back out and I can't find my knife!!!! Looked all over the place for that thing for almost 2 months, finally relented and bought a replacement one. walked in the house and set it on the bookcase...RIGHT NEXT TO MY ORIGINAL ONE!!!! So now I have 2(two) bright yellow handled knives and yeah I do carry them both with me at all times. |
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I was working on my first car when I dropped a socket in the engine bay. It never hit the ground, and I must have looked for it, under the hood and under the car, for fifteen minutes. Later I sold the car; I shoulda told the guy I was throwing in a free socket.
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When I installed the E fans on my 2000 silverado in 2005 I lost my 3/8 drive 10mm socket......found it last month when I was cleaning the truck up to sell, still on the ground bolt for the e fans :banghead:
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Not a tool, but could not find my reading glasses, searched for over an hour, gave up and tried to read the paperwork, wife came by took the glasses off of my head and handed them to me saying " You know you cant see without them" Go figure.
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Now that ^^^^^^^ right there makes me feel a little better ! :lol:
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There's a 13mm socket SOMEWHERE in my S10 engine bay. Never hit the ground and I can not find it! I think it's somewhere in the core support. |
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Great posts! Keep 'em comin!
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This is what it used to look like when we bought the house (the cabinets look nice in the pics, but trust me, they had started to turn a dingy yellow color): http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1254891549 A before and after... http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1254892311 And this is the day I thought my wife was going to kill me when she got home (upper cabinets had already been redone, I was re leveling and painting the lowers) :D http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1254892637 You can see the whole shebang here!!!: http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=366060&page=2 |
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I used to have a Buck lock blade knife that I called my "unlosable" knife. I can't count the number of times I lost that thing and it always turned up in some wired place. Lost it one night in the dark while hooking up a scrap car to flat tow. Figured it was gone forever after we looked for it about 20 minutes. I had a car on my trailer and my biddy was pulling the car.
On the way home we had all kinds of problem out of the car we flat towed. The front tires would lock in a sharp turn meaning we had to jack it up and straighten the wheels. As we got close to home the lugs sheared off the drivers front tire and the tire came off. I would up dragging it the last 1.4 mile home on the brake rotor I was so pissed. Next morning I opened the hood and there was my knife sitting there on the cowl. I also have a Spiderco knife that I lost several years ago. I bought a new recliner and tossed my old chair in a junk truck in the field with the intention of taking it to the dump. Fast forward 2 years and I pulled the chair out to haul it off and my Spiderco fell out of it. Now if I could just find that Buck again. Haven't seen it for 6 months and I am sure it will turn up somewhere. |
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i have a cherry picker and i lost the freaking jack handle...
i was flipping it over the other day to replace the casters with ones that work and freaking handle fell out of a cross brace.. i was not impressed w myself. |
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Everytime a lost/missing tool turns up, it is usually attached to the hand of the relative (dad) who neglected to mention that he borrowed it. :)
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I was talking to my friend on the phone the other day, I said "I'll leave as soon as I find my damn phone" and he said "Well, I bet I know where it's at?" and I asked "Where?" and he said "well check the side of your head."
Sure as hell, it was there........... I felt pretty dumb. |
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I guess I have been the unfortunate spoiler to somebodies lost tool story several times. I am a facilities manager and I am always having to crawl into attics and ducting to work. I have found many hammers, wrenches, C clamps and flash lights from previous employees that I know are long gone some tool have been there so long that the previous owner is dead.
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My memory is so bad that I can't think of a specific one,but I have lost and found quite a few........
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Kansas, 1999 or so. I brought the 2 year old out to help me replace the outside door handle on an '87 Accord. I got everything reinstalled, then for some reason I left the car before attaching the inside door panel. I returned later to button everything up and went on about my business.
Sometime later, I absolutely couldn't find a 10mm combo wrench, a socket, and needlenose pliers. I muttered around for a while then replaced them and went on with life. Fast forward to 2001, Maine. The handle has broken again and it's time to replace it with the composite version, rather than pot metal. After dropping the new 10mm combo into the bottom of the door, I fish around and find two copies of it. The other missing items were in there as well. Apparently, the toddler found a good hidey-hole when the door panel was off and didn't want to spill the secret, even two years later. |
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I was installing an overhead shelf in my utility room. To my dismay I could not find my level and it was too confined to eyeball. I made a special trip to buy a new one. It immediately turned up missing. It bothered me for years. Later we sold the house and as i removed the last items from the shelf and packed them up I decided to get a ladder to make sure nothing outside of my reach had been left behind. Any guesses on what I found?
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i have lost & found so many tools it is hard to know where to begin. i loaned my bush hog to my neighbor about 10 years ago & he lost a blade on it. i later bought the property from him & when i came home from afghanistan i went over to look around & found the blade stuck in a tree! but the killer for me is to lay something down & answer the phone or go eat & come back & tool is gone! this has happened a lot to me & i had decided that satan himself comes to my shop just to mess with my mind. then one day i was pulling the old wood heater out that was not used anymore & there was this big Norwegian hamster standing on it's back legs blinking his eyes at me. and what do you think he had decorated his little domicile with? that's right, all the tools i hadn't been able to find! anything shiny, the METRIC bolts i couldn't find & had to drive to town to replace- even my high dollar shure fire weapons light that i'm sure he needed to read home & rodent with late at night. all this time going crazy looking for my tools & i was done in by a damn kangaroo rat.
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I lost a ¼" socket one time working on my old 350 and found it imbedded in the top of a piston a few hours later after pulling the cylinder head to find that all that knocking was. Apparently tools do not combust when they get dropped down the carburetor. :lol: Yeah, the things you learn when in high school.
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i recently lost an entire ratchet set for my metrics....
went back to find it.... still havent found it.. dang.. |
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Thats why I have three sets of just about everything:lol: One time i took down a old house that was on my property and like a year later i started finishing the clean up. I finally found the sawsall that was under one of the building sides. It was flat shoved down into the dirt. i cleaned it up and blew it out with air and I still use it.
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I changed out my heater core about three months ago and I've been driving the truck three or four times a week ever since. The other day I went to fill my washer fluid and noticed a wrench still hanging on the nut for the heater core bolt that sticks through the firewall! I don't know how it didn't fall off!
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I have shop gnomes. The little bastards take my tools, sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks, and then out of no where they are laying on a bench in an obvious location. I don't know what they have been building all these years, but it is one hell of a project.........
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a couple of years ago I lost an entire set of drill bits when I was reworking the suspension on my truck. I looked everywhere, tore the shop apart, and even blamed my sister who is notorious for borrowing my tools. Literally about a year later, I found them...between the grill and radiator support on my 67. They had been there the whole time. On the bright side, now i have 2 sets of drill bits lol
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