Light Hearted Humor

[338 Mollett]

Gotta tell this one . I'm putting an extractor back into a Barnard bolt and the little spring thingy does its' thing and I heard it hit the wall 15 ft away . Now at the time my shop looked like Fordow and Chernobyl combined and low and behold it is lying in the middle of the floor in the only open 2 ft .square area !!

 

[SmittyJon]

For anyone who has ever spent 2 minutes to launch a spring that took only (hopefully) 4 hours to find (if at all).

Last fall while working on some cases, I dropped my chamfer-deburring on the workshop floor.
I heard it hit and roll under the counter which was packed with boxes of brass, extra rags, spray cans, powder bottles, etc., etc. A cursory search turned up nada.

About a month ago I did a major swamp out-clean up of the shop including that area. I checked every box and container for the tool, but found nothing. Although it's now down to a few powder bottles and a box with clean rags, the tool was never found.

My Dad always blamed "a crack in the Universe" as being the reason something gets permanently lost. Maybe he was onto something?

SJ

 

[shoot4fun]

Jesus clips, my garage is full of them, somewhere

A friend referred to them as FGD's (Flying #$@%!!!).

 

[shoot4fun]

I once had a custom built 1911 in 38 Super.
had it apart for a good cleaning one day and during reassembly the custom fitted barrel bushing went into unmanned space flight. I looked for hours and finally just installed a "spare" bushing. Finally found it when me moved out of that house about 4 years later.

 

[Knotwild]

Keep a cat close by, it will pinpoint where it goes.

 

[SEM]

Funny how it is always in the last place you look, Took me awhile to figure out the logic in that statement. way to many other thoughts occurring first to grasp it. Now I think it every time I find what was lost. Had to get old enough to fully appreciate it.

 

[372xp]

Once upon a time while assembling a 1911 in my dark basement, the mainspring cap shot straight up, I heard it hit the ceiling.
I never did find it until 2 years later I shined a light up between the joists & there it was, it had hit open end up with enough force to stick in the wood.

 

[Ron Gorski]

One day, I was struggling a bit to install a spring into a spring/air pellet rifle. This was something I normally would never touch but I always made exceptions for kids. Anyway, one of my customers was watching my efforts and finally asked if he could try. I told him to go ahead and stood back. He bent to the task and pretty soon he had the spring seated and had started the cap. He stepped back proudly and I stepped forward to have a look; just in time to see the cap fly off. That is, I think I saw it. Visible or not, it hit me right between the eyes, though a tad high. I didn't go down, but I may have staggered a bit. The trickle of blood was easily stopped with a Band-Aid. The bump went away with time. WH

Is he still your customer?