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Tex Jones, SASS 2263

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I was cleaning a USFA outside last week and dropped the nut end of the base pin latch in the gravel. Spent two days looking for it, but no joy, so I ordered a complete set from VTI for a Uberti. It works, as the specs are the same, but it still bothered me enough that I attached a bar magnet to a handle and swept the area in ever widening circles. Still no joy. This morning my dog spit up some of her food and as I was cleaning it up, lo and behold, the nut fell out of the rolled up leg of my jeans. Sometimes, it all comes together. I'll keep the other set as a back up.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

 

Tex

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I feel your pain. I waste a lot of time looking for small parts. I got a magnetic parts bowl that helps but it attracts all kinds of stuff that come hear it. I've also got a magnet sweep that comes in handy. It doesn't work real well on lost brass. I have a metal detector that I sometimes use.

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I use St. Rita.

 

Recently had lost my entire set of truck keys with house/shop/safe and misc. unknown keys. I'd only been from the house to the detached garage early in the the morning, about 50' away.

Got dressed for work and head out later, but no key ring anywhere in sight. Searched all footsteps and places I'd been earlier, checked clothes and pants pockets, but still no where. Had a back up set of keys and used them the rest of the day. Figured the lost key ring would show up somewhere. Later that evening, I went to a chest of drawers that I keep a extra gun belt and holster to wear around the premises and found the key ring attached loosely. Well CRS to blame and wife calling on St. Rita to rescue.

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St. Anthony always comes through.

Amen ... he gave me in a dream the visual location of my key ring with all my keys. And I also lost one of my hearing aids and a couple of days after praying, looked down in an isolated corner in the reloading room ... there it was. I'm a believer!

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Being the wimp I am, when taking things apart/reassembly, I always put an old bath towel on the bench, doubled over once, so parts won't bounce off. I maintain order of procedure my placing screws into a piece of corrugated board with location of said screw marked on the face. Of course I keep the various magnets handy when things don't work out exactly right. :blush:

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Back when I was a bona fide rocket engineer, I worked with another who had a theory that stuff like we lose and can't find fall into a time-space dialation...a wormhole. Eventially, after we've looked and looked, the item reappears into our current space-time dimension. Good a theory as any, I suppose... ;)

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Back when I was a bona fide rocket engineer, I worked with another who had a theory that stuff like we lose and can't find fall into a time-space dialation...a wormhole. Eventially, after we've looked and looked, the item reappears into our current space-time dimension. Good a theory as any, I suppose... ;)

I belong to the Borrowers theory of lost stuff. How many people remember the Borrowers, the little people who live in the walls and pick up lost stuff. Sometimes they give them back especially if you Leave them a bribe of a cookie Crumb or such. I drop lots of cookie crumbs, especially this time of year!

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Back when I was a bona fide rocket engineer, I worked with another who had a theory that stuff like we lose and can't find fall into a time-space dialation...a wormhole. Eventially, after we've looked and looked, the item reappears into our current space-time dimension. Good a theory as any, I suppose... ;)

Why yes! I support that theory. Just a couple days ago I couldn't locate my dvd remote. I had intentionally set it at the entrance to a small worm hole, coincidentally located here in my workspace. Moments later it was gone. I searched for it methodically an deliberately but couldn't find it. Ten minutes later, when I returned with a glass of water, it had reappeared right where I left it. Amazing!! ;-)

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Back when I was a bona fide rocket engineer, I worked with another who had a theory that stuff like we lose and can't find fall into a time-space dialation...a wormhole. Eventially, after we've looked and looked, the item reappears into our current space-time dimension. Good a theory as any, I suppose... ;)

Yeah when I was in the navy one of the other guys came up with a mathematical formula to explain how the rotating heat in the clothes dryer causes a wormhole and that is why you never pull out the same number of socks as you put in the dryer.

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Why yes! I support that theory. Just a couple days ago I couldn't locate my dvd remote. I had intentionally set it at the entrance to a small worm hole, coincidentally located here in my workspace. Moments later it was gone. I searched for it methodically an deliberately but couldn't find it. Ten minutes later, when I returned with a glass of water, it had reappeared right where I left it. Amazing!! ;-)

:lol::lol: :lol:

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Last summer I was shooting my Dad's .32 Win. and the screw that goes through the forend band fell out someplace. :angry: We looked for hours and never did find it :( , untill about 6 weeks later at the loading table I glanced down and there it was, :o right in the middle of the area We had been looking before. I guess the sun had hit just right and it was not in the sunshine instead of the shadows.

I shoulda went to the casino right then.

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Back when I was a bona fide rocket engineer, I worked with another who had a theory that stuff like we lose and can't find fall into a time-space dialation...a wormhole. Eventially, after we've looked and looked, the item reappears into our current space-time dimension. Good a theory as any, I suppose... ;)

I am a firm believer in this theory!!!!

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Yeah when I was in the navy one of the other guys came up with a mathematical formula to explain how the rotating heat in the clothes dryer causes a wormhole and that is why you never pull out the same number of socks as you put in the dryer.

So far for me the socks never come back--- we moved after 23 years in one house that ate many, many socks. The house was completely empty when we left and I even disassembled the washer & dryer to clean them b4 I left--- NO socks, but did find quite a bit of change in the dryer bottom. Maybe whatever lives in the worm hole, just paid for 'em.

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So far for me the socks never come back--- we moved after 23 years in one house that ate many, many socks. The house was completely empty when we left and I even disassembled the washer & dryer to clean them b4 I left--- NO socks, but did find quite a bit of change in the dryer bottom. Maybe whatever lives in the worm hole, just paid for 'em.

 

Lends credence to the "Rotating-Heat, Worm Hole Manifestation" theory. "There's a signpost just ahead.........."

:-)

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I was cleaning a USFA outside last week and dropped the nut end of the base pin latch in the gravel. Spent two days looking for it, but no joy, so I ordered a complete set from VTI for a Uberti. It works, as the specs are the same, but it still bothered me enough that I attached a bar magnet to a handle and swept the area in ever widening circles. Still no joy. This morning my dog spit up some of her food and as I was cleaning it up, lo and behold, the nut fell out of the rolled up leg of my jeans. Sometimes, it all comes together. I'll keep the other set as a back up.

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

 

Tex

 

Hoooooooo BOY! I thought this thread was heading South as I read that part. :(

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In order for this to work you have to have HAD it first. Then you can find it later.

 

So what are you saying Wyatt?? That you are divorced?

 

Come on later!

 

Still married after 28 years...............she's almost got me trained :wub:

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Don't know why I look for anything. I can just ask my wife and she points at it........

The same thing happens while I'm sewing. I dropped an eye (as in hook and eye) on the floor last week. Then, I went over the rug with my magnet thingy. No luck. Hubby walked into the room and kicked it on the wood floor (around the edges of the room) where it could be seen. For some reason, he always seems to find this type of thing when I can't.

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Yours too? I think they hide the stuff just so they can pull that trick on us.

 

Just so you know this is something that mothers pass down to daughters along with the requirement to wait until after their 10th wedding anniversary to implement. My mother-in-law use to pick something up and put it down in some other random place and then you would have to ask her where it was. I liked her and she always treated me like the son she never had, but that like to drove me crazy! Then about twenty years ago my wife implemented the move item randomly and sure enough I found when I ask her where something is, she always seems to know! More than 30 years that poor woman has had to put up with me, dang iffn I know why.....

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The same thing happens while I'm sewing. I dropped an eye (as in hook and eye) on the floor last week. Then, I went over the rug with my magnet thingy. No luck. Hubby walked into the room and kicked it on the wood floor (around the edges of the room) where it could be seen. For some reason, he always seems to find this type of thing when I can't.

I hate finding sewing needles that way with my bare feet! A few years ago I found one that way and later my daughter did too. The wife demanded we take her to the doctor and get her a tetanus shot. When I was explaining to the nurse and the doctor about the daughter having found the needle with her foot in the dining room the woman starts giving me the third degree about leaving used needles around. About that time I realized this idiot thought we were talking about used hypodermic needles and I disabused her as to that PDQ! Then I had to ask her who in gods name has that kind of used needles and why would she think of that instead of a sewing needle? Sometimes I have to wonder just who they are letting through Med School these days!

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That stinks Rusty!

 

Unfortunately, pins and needles do get accidentally dropped and lost despite our best attempts to be careful. Luckily, none of us (including critters)have found one that way.

 

Your story reminds me of a trip to the Dentist in the late 60s. I had an abscessed and very painful capped tooth. I tend to hyperventilate and pass out with extreme pain. I passed out when he drilled a hole in the cap with no pain killer. When I regained consciousness, he asked me if I was on drugs. I was not!

 

My hyperventilating has happened many times (once from smells at the vets) over the years until I learned to breathe slowly when pain hits. I haven't had an episode in over 15 years.

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