Projects Were the HELL is my.............

Am I the only one wasting time looking for a misplaced part or tool today? Plan was to make the MOON tank hold downs for the Lyndwood rail, but the tank is no were to be found. Forcing me to repair my daily driver, and maybe do yard work, not a good way to spend a sunny day.

 

lol, I'm still looking for stuff I set down 20 years ago....

 

You'll never find that tank doing yard work, that's the time waster....

 

Well things are actually looking up for me. One of the fellas from Florida sent me an old manual to copy the tranny section. It is in my possesion. I will probably not get to it today as I am about to start doing honey dews but tomorrow it is one. it is supposed to be raining so it won't deter me from doing anything in the driveway.

I am sorry that you haven't received the parts that you were expecting but maybe they will get there in time for you to make the event that you are after getting to.

Good luck.

 

Been there. Even better is when you finally give up and say it's gone then replace it. Next thing you know, you got two of them .

 

its a never ending struggle in the crappy little building that i have thats supposed to be a garage i feel your pain

 

happens to me regularly-put a part somewhere so it won't get lost and I will be able to find it--well when I need it I can't find it and buy another one-eventually find it (sometimes months later) but some items are still undiscovered--guess I'll find them someday

 

I know just how you feel, my shop is such a mess, put my 40 on the lift today to rebuild the shift linkage, spend more time looking for tools then it took to fix it. Guess its time to clean up the shop! Beats the hell outta yard work and maybe i can find all my "run away" tools!

 

I receintly showed my car at a show with the hood off. I told people it was because I wanted to show off the engine.

Honestly......I couldn't find my hinges

 

I am always losing stuff my shop is a disaster thats why i am out here cleaning it finding all kinds of stuff

 

without multiple tools i would be dead in the water.....you don't find them till you do not need them .....wtf

 

Im gonna have to agree with that one.

 

It will reappear like magic as soon as the yardwork is done. I doubt if the ol lady would do anything like hide it on you..........
Dennis D

 

Your garage must be a disaster, how do you misplace a Moon tank? They are pretty good size, its not like a pen or a set of keys.

 

I've heard that the second thing to go is your memory and I can't remember what the first thing to go is.

 

Sometimes it can get expensive. I moved my shop 3 years ago, and carefully packed related items in sealed, clearly marked boxes. I have been looking off and on since I moved, but still can't find the new Hurst shifter for my Tub or the original seat belts with the proper legible dated labels for my (slightly) OT '67 Corvette. Every tried to replace those?

 

The one that really gets me is when I need a tool have loaned to someone I KNOW that I can trust to return it. Then I can't remember who it was that I loaned it to. I know if I remember who I loaned it to and ask I'll get it back....

 

needed my jumper cables the other day. searched high and low, emptied out the '62 Falcon i've had ready to haul to new abode whenever that becomes necessary... no luck. had to borrow a set.

today, looking for rivets..... there's the damn jumper cables. lucky me, i found the rivets i was looking for too.

mind you, i'm missing not ONE but TWO 9oz ball pein hammers now.....

 

I'll take it one step further. I've loaned my tools to these same type friends, only to have them lose them.

 

50% of my work time seems like looking for the tool I just had 3 mins. ago. Yes, multiple tools help with this problem. 'Crap, can't find it, just go get one of the other ones.'

As Muttley said though, seems a little hard to lose a Moon tank. But, I wouldn't put it passed myself, so can't judge others on that either.

 

Did you find it yet?

 

NO! But I have 14 garbage cans filled with leaves, saw the last 15 laps of Bristol, found some really neet misplaced items I wasn't looking for, and really don't need. I just hope the tank didn't get put in a box somewere.Ok, and we just reconnected the steering on my daily driver so I can go to work tomorrow. What a great weekend.

 

Infestation of shop gnomes...
No getting rid of them...you just have to know how to keep them in check.
They LIVE to see you pissed off and angry so the bigger show you put on the more stuff you'll lose!

When something goes missing just deal with it in a quiet fashion.
Look around carefully and clean up/organize your space while you're at it.
Do that a few times and you'll notice things are easier to find because the Gnomes realize your not going to entertain them.
They HATE organized, clean places.

I can't even find the car sometimes...damn Gnomes. LoL

 

Just weld your tools together like my avatar.

 

Used my DeWalt chopsaw in 2004. Haven't seen it since. I think it is setting right next to that 4' long model of the USS Constitution that dissappeared in 84 and that 15/16 Snapon wrench that I laid on the seat of the Caddy last summer.

 

Glad I wasnt alone, just spent 4 hours NOT finding my pair of Mickey Thompson chevy script valve covers.
I'll find them the day after the swap meet, then i'll have 2 pair.

 

Frustrating, but it'll turn up.

I'd like to know what happened to my new Cox Cheetah slot car. And that was like 40+ years ago! I never did get to run it.

 

I lost a new pitman arm about six years ago & never found it...my garage is small, too. Today I lost a foot long chrome tailight from a '62 Imperial for 20 minutes. Every day it's something new. My buddy has a T-shirt that says "Now why is it that I'm standing here in this room?"

 

Bob did you try looking in the "last" place? that's where i find stuff i'm looking for.

 

Welcome to my life, Bob -

When I was able to work on my stuff every day, I could remember where EVRYTHING was. Now, I'll wander out to the garage to start where I left off last weekend and can't find a THING!!! Even worse in the basement, where I haven't done a thing in over a year...