I have had fairly good luck in locating "fallen objects" by shining a
flashlight at floor level, parallel to the floor & scanning the area.
Sometimes I have to shine the flashlight from another location on the floor.
This approach has also helped in the grass & gravel. This is not guaranteed,
but has helped me a lot.
LOL ~ Mad Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Duquette
To: Healeys
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Where does the bolt go?
I looked for more than a half of an hour. It's there somewhere ...
:) When I saw the little (brass) nut it was black. I tried a few times to
grab it with the magnet. It wouldn't. Then finally, I "pushed" it with
the
magnet to dislodge it and have it fall to the floor.
----------------------------------------
> Robert,
>
> Remember these little hardware pieces can bounce & travel for long
distances
> when hitting the garage floor. Keep looking.
> Also, is there something special in Canada that allows brass to become
> magnetic?
>
> Craig Rice (Indiana)
> BN1 & BN2
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Duquette"
>
> >I was re-attaching the rad and thinking to myself how easy this was
> >compared
> > to the replacing the one on a spridget ... ( Note to self: please stop
> > thinking positive thoughts until it's over and tested. )
> > I had the top bolts well started and thought that I had the LH lower
one
> > started and was on the right side trying to align the rad to the lower
> > bracket
> > and get that one started when I heard a 'tink' from the other side and
the
> > rad
> > shifted. I shine the worklight over to the other side, and sure enough,
> > there
> > it was ... gone! I searched high and low and felt around where I
couldn't
> > see
> > and even probed around with my newly acquired magnet on a stick to no
> > avail!
> > Well, I did come into possession of a small brass nut and a spare
washer,
> > but
> > they are unrelated to anything that I've ever done. The magnet did a
real
> > good job of getting the brass nut! I used it to dislodge it and push it
> > to
> > where gravity took over. So where the heck did it go? It didn't make it
> > to
> > the floor. Do I have to be looking for something else to be able to
find
> > this
> > bolt and washer?
> > _______________________________________________
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