man was i sick of serching afther small bits when they fired of my tweezer [xx(] , now noooo more , got myself a secondhand barstool (is higher than a nomal chair) and now when assembling those small part i just move over to the paintbooth and put it together over there [:D] , just let the pieces fly ; no more crawling on hand and knees for me [(-D][(-D]
Nice!
I removed the vinyl flooring around my workbench and painted the wood with a heavy duty, white enamel. I’m still on all fours regularly, but now at least I can find what I’m looking for [X-)]
Good idea Maffen.
what color would be better for the floor, white or black???
White, all colors should show up well, but on the black OD will be a bit harder to locate[8D]
Just don’t go with green. It’s amazing how EVERYTHING blends in with it. Brown, grey, red, even brass!! I’m on the floor so much everytime I build, it’s amazing I haven’t worn out the knees in several pairs of pants!!
yall are lucky to have hard wood floors we have wall to wall carpet in the rooms and dining room were i build mine and to make matters worse the carpet is a light tan.not to bad on the gray and green parts can spot them pretty qick but those tan parts is a another storie usually have to get another set of eys to help locate the tweezer launched part.[:D][:D]
Mine’s not only carpet, it’s a short shag!
Bill
My office carpet has an ammo box and several tiny handles lost in it some where. It’s a tight nap carpet but it’s a dark color and there is vertually no light under the desk. I’ve had to craw around on all fours with my lighted handcuff key as a flashlight looking for parts!LOL
Ha Ha I spend so much time looking for parts on my shop floor I installed a flourcent “undercabinet” light under my bench. It stayes on all the time. It was about 10 bucks at walmart… One of the best Investment I have made… I highly recommend it…
I saw a tip: someone put a white shower curtain on the floor if any parts fall on the ground it’s easier to find them.
mark956
man ill tell you i got that big fluffly carpet, something falls into there, and its lost forever, i can probably build an entire kit with the stuff in there, luckily i came up with putting plastic around my workbench. Unfortunatly when that tweezerfire happens, i have no idea where they fire to sometime, some of them are probably at the other end of the room.
I thought that I was the only one with this problem. I lost a part tonight and I had to get down on all fours. Sort of like tearing apart a carbuetor and havinf a spring fly off in to the wild blue yonder!
Yep, they ol’ “Hunt for the part problem”.
Family already knows the signs when they need to stop moving so that I can my parts, if part is not found it is vacuum cleaner time.
Put a piece of cloth betwen the Pipes and get going, the cloth acts as a trap and will catch the little missing dastards.
NEW place will be flooring all the way and modelling desk moves into a triangular shaped corner(PC) desk which should cut down on the lost pieces, below the chair will be a clear plastic mat to catch runaway parts. [:D]
I think nearly any color and height carpet can swallow small pieces. A few times I gave up only to find the piece literally staring right at me.
It seems like the moment you drop that part time just seems to stand still and your senses go into “hyper mode” looking and listening for the part to hit the floor [or your foot] esp. if you are working in the kitchen with linoleum or hardwood floors. Or maybe that’s just me!LOL
I work in the kitchen with linoleum and have still had parts vanish when the hit the floor. Of coarse there have been a couple that I searched awhile for and my wife walk by and pick it right up.
Yeah i remeber when i dropped a hummer headlight on the kitchen floor. My wife and my daughter were standing over me like “watcha doin’”. I told them I was looking for the equivilant of a contact lense.lol
The big difference between lost PE parts and lost carb parts is if you lose a PE part you just make a new one or skip it , if you just skip the carb spring , your car won’t start or catches on fire ! Saw my father burn his 65 mustang to the ground with a carb rebuild one time ![:D]
That reminds me of something I read in an old book that I think was by Art Linkletter. He was interviewing a little boy and the conversation went something like this:
ART LINKLETTER: Did your daddy ever try to fix anything?
LITTLE BOY: He tried to fix our car.
ART: And what happened?
LITTLE BOY: We had to get a new car.
Back to the subject at hand: I just moved to a new apartment and it has wall to wall tan carpet everywhere but the kitchen and bathroom. I’m dreading the first occasion where a part falls to the floor.