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howsitwork?:
 but which Dr Who is driving it?

I found old carpet stops stuff rolling too far and minimizes damage to tools.

I also got one of these extending magnet gadgets with a built in torch for $2 and that at least gives me a chance! If that fails the Cree torches with zoom function give LOADS OF LIGHT to allow you to curse in comfort when you can't reach it.

Spent ages once looking for v small screw which dropped onto floor. Magnets, torch, small children all deployed to no avail. Then looked in trouser turn up - bingo.

DavidA:
A little aside on the bearings I 'lost'.

On Sunday I set about fitting one side.

I don't have a press so I was committed to driving out the old bearing with a drift.

It was tight. So I was really laying into it when there was a sharp pain and blood was squirting everywhere.

And I do mean spurting. It was apparently coming from the little finger of my right hand; the one holding the hammer.
Problem was my hands were really black and oily. so first job is to clean them.
The sink was soon a bloody, oily mess as I had to wring my hands together to get the dirt away.
Got the hands clean and began looking for a huge laceration.
Blood still running, but can't find a cut.
Then found a tiny pin hole in the finger less than a millimeter wide.
Nothing in the hole. I couldn't believe so much blood could come from so small a wound.

Anyway my daughter taped it up and we went back out to finish the job.

I never found out where the shrapnel came from.

Dave.

awemawson:
...oouch  :bugeye:

Full marks to Daughter  :thumbup:

... heal quickly   :worthless:

tom osselton:
Acording to Dr Who "One should never put turnup in trowsers"

SwarfnStuff:
David, could it be that the head of your drift was mushroomed? Though how it flew from there to your little finger on the hammer handle I am at a loss as the forces should be downward. BUT, swarf and chips do amazing gymnastics at times.

Tape up and keep going sounds like a commitment to the project at hand.

John B

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