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Retrieving that lost 10mm socket

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Good tip for a decent number of drops, but mine always seem to end up in places unimaginable how they fit there and never to be heard from again lol :oops:
 


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Agree with Drag. Mine end up where even my finger can't get to it. Not pulling the motor :)
 


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Easier too just buy 'em by the dozen.
 


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Ha, that was brilliance......
 


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Easier too just buy 'em by the dozen.
I swear I put down tools....and they vanish into thin air...used to drive me crazy...now I just go buy 2 more of the lost tool
 


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They do....Mr. Scott beams 'em up
 


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I once spent 10 minutes walking around the garage looking for a wrench, only to find it was in my left hand that entire time. I sure felt dumb after that. Beer may or may not have been a factor.
 


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Missing tools make a person do dumb things......I speak from experience also.
I once spent 10 minutes walking around the garage looking for a wrench, only to find it was in my left hand that entire time. I sure felt dumb after that. Beer may or may not have been a factor.
 


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Not long after I got a 1970 Pontiac I dropped a bolt while changing the water pump. Not to be found using any method. Years and ~100K miles later I pulled the engine and there it was under the engine laying on the cross member. How did it stay there through all that? I chalked it up to the perversity of inanimate objects.
 


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Not long after I got a 1970 Pontiac I dropped a bolt while changing the water pump. Not to be found using any method. Years and ~100K miles later I pulled the engine and there it was under the engine laying on the cross member. How did it stay there through all that? I chalked it up to the perversity of inanimate objects.
Simply put...shit happens...:poop:
 


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Thanx to yall kids, I gots plenty to sell back to yall. Price two cell.
 


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I once spent 10 minutes walking around the garage looking for a wrench, only to find it was in my left hand that entire time. I sure felt dumb after that. Beer may or may not have been a factor.
Man that hits close to home...the other morning goin to work...lookin for my keys...couldn't find em....they were in my hand.....:rolleyes:
 


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I once spent 10 minutes walking around the garage looking for a wrench, only to find it was in my left hand that entire time. I sure felt dumb after that. Beer may or may not have been a factor.
I’m good for laying a tool down somewhere then not being able to find the damn thing until I look for it for at least a few minutes. 🙄
 


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I’m good for laying a tool down somewhere then not being able to find the damn thing until I look for it for at least a few minutes. 🙄
Seems to happen to a lot of us
 


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If it’s always in the last place you look, then maybe that’s where you should start!😉
 


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Nice one! I think I even have a magnet for this one to try for the next time I lose something!

Had one where I dropped a wrench and socket on ratchet and couldn't see them from any angle. Finally figured out they went into the fan shroud cover in the bottom up against the back side of the radiator. Couldn't reach in there so popped bottom side of shroud and out they came. This method I think would have saved some time for sure!
 


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I’m good for laying a tool down somewhere then not being able to find the damn thing until I look for it for at least a few minutes. 🙄
BTDT!! Had to laugh at myself when I did one of those!
 




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