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05-23-2006, 10:25 PM
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State of Confusion!
  
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Gulfport, MS USA
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Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Least I feel that way tonight. Trying to work on the 70 putting engine/tranny together and get it all hooked u in the frame. I was a good boy during disassembly and bagged and labeled everything. Got the pictures and all, but...................... I have 2 and 1/2 ish trucks bagged up here. Shoot, I feel like I am in baggie Hell!
    Where the heck are my bolts?  I know if I go out and buy them, the bag will crawl over to where I need it.  I wonder if it will crawl out with just the threat of buying, that way I'll save money?It's been one of those days  Oh well, step back nd get some rest for the Taxi service in the morning. Maybe they will crawl out of the pile by then  Thanks for listening. I still am hating baggies at this moment!!
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Bill 1970 Chevy Custom/10 LWB Fleetside 2010 Toyota Tacoma PreRunner SR5 Double Cab - DD Member of Louisiana Classic Truck Club (LCTC) Bill's Gallery Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God! |
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05-23-2006, 10:30 PM
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67-72 Addict!
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Bill- if you start to hyper ventilate, use the baggie to breathe in and out of to calm yourself down
 . Sounds like you need to walk away from it and it will come back to you where you left the bolts!
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05-23-2006, 10:40 PM
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A little east of nowhere
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: LaBroquerie,Manitoba Canada
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Try the cufflink trick.
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05-23-2006, 10:40 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Southern Pines NC
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
I have fun in a differnt way, I throw the all bolts from one truck into a 5 gallon plastic bucket!
the sort them ...........haven't been putting much together, still in the stripping stages. |
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05-23-2006, 11:07 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: daytonabeach
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
there's a guy who breaks into my house at night while i'm sleeping and hides my stuff maybe you've got a guy like that nearby
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05-23-2006, 11:09 PM
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Location: ** THE FALL GUY **CHICAGO IL
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
have momma go out there and look..they will be right there under the tire covered with the shop rag in the area under the work bench
well you know what i mean 
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05-23-2006, 11:12 PM
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Truck junkie
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Reno NV
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
At least it's organized chaos
I always grab the closest folgers can and start throwing fasteners in it. One of these days I'm going to use the same bolts I took out instead of putting new ones in. Fortunately for me I have a nut and bolt bin and I know what most of the special fasteners look like so I can pick em out of the pile.
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05-24-2006, 12:23 AM
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Location: Damascus, OR
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
I have always found that the quickest way to find something is to go out and buy a replacement - that way it always turns up
Glad to help!
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05-24-2006, 01:02 AM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
YOU feel like an idiot? I cant even find the &*%^ baggies!
Wheres that box? I know its here somewhere...I hope what I looking for is in that box when I do find it!... I know the feeling Bill...corn |
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05-24-2006, 05:01 AM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
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you have to make sure to lose the receipt too so that when you do find em you cant return what you just bought.
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05-24-2006, 08:43 AM
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DON'T TREAD ON ME
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Crosby County, TX
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
When I loose something in order for me to find it I usually have to pitch a wall eyed fit. Utter numerous words I can't repeat here. Then throw a few things and beat them on the floor a little bit. Look some more, still can't find it, get mad and stomp off to the house.
Then when I come back it will just magically appear right out of thin air, in plain site where any idiot could have seen it before getting so mad about it. Guess I'm glad I'm not an idiot. 
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05-24-2006, 08:49 AM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
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05-24-2006, 09:16 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Marion, Texas
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Don't ask me how many "spares" I have. Sounds like us truck guys are alike in many ways. Who here does NOT have a spare bolt bin? Mine is exceptionally large.
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05-24-2006, 09:23 AM
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Designated A-hole!
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Location: South Mississippi
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Hey Bill, just so happens I wound up with some extra bolts and stuff since I saw you last.
J/K, but I feel your pain, luckily I have some wrecks to rob bolts and stuff off of around here.
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05-24-2006, 11:16 AM
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Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Go buy another parts truck. Then, whatever bolt you need, just remove it from the same location on the parts truck. It takes up a little more room than a bolt bin or an organized box of bolts in baggies, but you'll know its exactly the right bolt each time.
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05-24-2006, 12:18 PM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
I don't know about anyone else but I had a big 5 gallon bucket of bolts that I threw everything in. That way I didn't loose it. One day I seperated all those bolts nut and screws and I found everything from amunition to marking pens. So much for my system. I still can't find the right bolt even though they are in a big tray with about 10 different slots. So every time I see a yard sale I buy more bolts.
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05-24-2006, 01:56 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Portland Oregon
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Im with you. I have a 2 car garage with 3 trucks torn apart in verious stages with things hanging from the ceiling and crammed in corners and so on and so forth. I did how ever get my plans approved by the city last night to build my 30 by 50 shop so I am going to get organized. I do know what you are saying about the bolt situation. I am afraid I am going to get to my last project and I wont have any bolts.
Good Luck, JRB |
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05-24-2006, 03:16 PM
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'69 Step
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Location: Marion, Texas
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Hey JRB: Bigger work space, more room for bolts
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05-24-2006, 04:54 PM
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I am a Referee of life.
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Palf, where was your marking pen when you was a baggin stuff?
The easiest way to find the bolts is to start at one end and go to the other of your workspace and organize,declutter, and generally housekeep your workarea.Nahhh that ain't gonna work you're likew me you want to finish what you're working on.
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05-24-2006, 05:11 PM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
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I think he comes to votech tooShane
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05-24-2006, 05:12 PM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
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 Works almost every time Shane
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1993 K1500 350 5 speed 1985 K10 Silverado Vortec 406 5 speed (in body shop) "I been drivin' this '85 pickup truck Them buddies of mine call it a bucket of rust She's a little beat up but she still runs like the wind Yeah, kinda like me I been banged and bruisedBeen around the block a time or two But I'm runnin' like new goin' places I never been No, I ain't broke I'm just broken in" 1963 Dodge Townwagon(its amazng what 30 years and zero miles will do to a vehicle )Member#20327 |
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05-24-2006, 06:32 PM
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Nothings as cool as my 72
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Hey, at least you did everything the proper way like taking pictures of how stuff went and marked everything. I just took everything apart and left it sitting outside to get rained on and overspray from the sandblaster, so I guess I'm more of an idiot. So now I have to figure out how everything goes back together.
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05-24-2006, 06:32 PM
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
What you need is a good dog to keep the gremlins and riff-raff outta the shop and sniff out lost tools n' stuff... man's best friend... The ol' shop dog.
Wait a minute that's what the little woman calls me!
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05-25-2006, 06:40 AM
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4 eyed fever
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Having 2 trucks to build 1 worked like a charm for me. I also did the baggie thing during the tear down, but still had to rob bolts from the other truck a bunch of times. And having a 3rd truck to look at for putting it back together was a real time saver! LOL
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05-25-2006, 08:09 AM
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Special Order
 
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Re: Note to Self...You are an Idiot!
Your wife`s been in the garage,obviously.
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