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Gallery, Projects and General => How do I?? => Topic started by: RichardDepetris on May 21, 2017, 12:49:23 PM
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It happens so often that I never gave it much thought, but it has become a real pain. While I am working on a project on my bench, there's always screws and small parts that fall on the floor. I have to stop what I am doing to get on my hands and knees to look for it. It usually takes several minutes to find a small part.
Aside from installing a trapeze net under my bench, how have you resolved this situation?
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Work on the floor :doh: :lol: :lol:
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Work on the floor :doh: :lol: :lol:
I was actually thinking about it.
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A strip of the flexible magnet that's part of a 'fridge door seal glued around the vertical periphery of your bench. Not much use for brass screws but the steel ones will get caught :thumbup:
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Work on the floor :doh: :lol: :lol:
I was actually thinking about it.
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Richard -- I use a "tray" with CRS Bars glued to it. I then "attach" a bunch of magnetic cups to the "bars" into which I place my "small parts." Unless I knock over the entire "tray," they stay where I put them.
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If that is wood table a shallow half round groove if you have a routter is a good solution. Anyt other "stoppers" are nasty to arms. Some old writing desks had some interestin features on the front.
Another thing is to keep floor clean, contrastic color helps.
I usually clean when I first have dropped something on floor and frustrate with swarf and it takses ages to find the part I dropped.
Pekka
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I built a jewellers bench top I can mount in the bench vice on my steel bench. The jewellers bench can have a tea towel pinned underneath to catch fasteners etc. Very handy for working on small and intricate parts. Something like below.
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Self-adhesive foam weather-stripping applied at the front edge of the bench can provide a forearm-friendly barrier for both ferrous and non-ferrous parts.
If you don't want it on the bench all the time, apply it to a thin plastic strip that can be laid down when needed and removed when not.
Do your work on a soft, tight-weave, light-colored fabric so that small parts won't bounce if dropped. An old baby blanket works well as do the newer micro-fiber cloths.
For jobs where springs or clips are likely to "jump out", do the work with the work and your hands inside a transparent plastic bag. Clothing bags from dry cleaners work well.
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If you have a wooden bench top, consider using a router with a ball shaped cutter to cut a shallow groove about an inch in from the edge, along the length of the bench; similar to the pencil groove on old time school desks.
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Hi Mike welcome to the forum :thumbup:
How do you fancy popping over to the introductions section of the forum and telling us all about your workshop and projects ?
http://madmodder.net/index.php/board,3.0.html
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Hi Andrew, thanks for the welcome. I'm slowly finding my way around the forum and have posted an introduction.
Cheers
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Can't help with falling off- a wet &dry vac. cleaner is good , just search in the bottom for dropped bit. Hold a torch flat to the floor, shows up dropped bits.