Just had to post this as I'm sure most of you guys have had a similar event at some point. The lost or dropped tool that seems to get sucked into a black hole never to be found again...
The other day I moved my mini-lathe off the bench to measure up for a metal enclosure I was making. When I put it back, the chuck key for the 3 jaw was missing. I searched EVERYWHERE!!! Even going through the garbage, the metal scrap bucket, each drawer a few times, behind the tool boxes, over here, over there and could not find it to save my life!
This morning after a few days without it, I decided to just make a new one. I've been wanting to make a larger one anyhow but I said to myself, I said "self" as soon as you make this, the other one will turn up. Sure enough in record time, it was found! I moved the lathe again today to install the new enclosure and sure enough, I found it! It was magnetically stuck on the back of my DRO displays! I took them down and set them on top of the lathe and never realized the key stuck to the back even when I put them back up! Unbelievable!
Here is where it was:
From the front, you couldn't tell it was back there!
So now it has a big brother:
The other day I moved my mini-lathe off the bench to measure up for a metal enclosure I was making. When I put it back, the chuck key for the 3 jaw was missing. I searched EVERYWHERE!!! Even going through the garbage, the metal scrap bucket, each drawer a few times, behind the tool boxes, over here, over there and could not find it to save my life!
This morning after a few days without it, I decided to just make a new one. I've been wanting to make a larger one anyhow but I said to myself, I said "self" as soon as you make this, the other one will turn up. Sure enough in record time, it was found! I moved the lathe again today to install the new enclosure and sure enough, I found it! It was magnetically stuck on the back of my DRO displays! I took them down and set them on top of the lathe and never realized the key stuck to the back even when I put them back up! Unbelievable!
Here is where it was:
From the front, you couldn't tell it was back there!
So now it has a big brother: