Black Hole

[jx2mad]

How many others have a black hole in their shed where things just disappear without trace? I thought I left mine behind when I moved 10 years ago but alas, it has followed me. Last week I had to replace the throttle cable on my grandson's quad bike. I purchased the new cable and associated hand grip and got started. Fitted the throttle grip and ran cable to carby. This is where the black hole came into play. The screw cap had to be removed from the top of the carby along with the spring, washer, sliding block and needle. I knew that the spring is under pressure so I removed the cap carefully. ALAS. I gently removed the mechanism to unhook the old cable when I noticed something was missing. The needle had disappeared from the block.!!! No amount of searching on the concrete floor brought this darn thing to light. I looked, my wife looked (she recons I am blind) and my daughter looked. All to no avail. 3 days and $9.95 for a new carby fixed the problem. I didn't change carbys, I just swapped the needle from the new carby and problem solved. HOW DO I GET RID OF A BLACK HOLE? (Don't say paint it white):p:p:p

[roverrescue]

Jim,
I whole heartedly sympathise with you.
Nothing I hate more than the time wasted looking for something
"that I just put down a minute ago"

I have found the best way to prevent it when starting a specific project is clean a workbench completely prior to starting said project - even to the point of grinding back to clean steel and re-oiling it...

This way as you pull the carbie/caliper/hub etc etc apart all the pieces can be layed out on a clean surface... But then of course I will still wander over to the linisher, touching a few parts up, leaving said part next to the linisher, then spending the next 40 minutes searchig for it (and cussing) on the nice clean workbench!!!!

S

[mick88]

Magnetic parts dishes/trays are fantastic!
You can even have then standing on their side and as long as all the bits and pieces you are putting in them will stick to a magnet you are laughing.
The trays are about $7-10 each at auto stores etc.

Cheers, Mick.

[Tank]

Stop looking for the lost item and look for something completely different, guarantee you will find the first item, works for me, Regards Frank.

[strangy]

I too have a black hole, mine is actually linked via worm hole to the laundry where my socks & jocks also disappear without trace.

Maybe someones black hole will materialise your carby needle?
I find mine spits out what it took many months after I no longer need it.
As for the socks & jocks.......

[redrovertdi]

Ive also got one in the back yard and the driveway, spent many hours searching for a valve collet, its easier to rob parts off spares[spare 300tdi and auto/spare jag 4.2 and auto/spare matchless engines etc etc]

[Xtreme]

Usually those items that disappear into the black hole seem to magically reappear very soon after the replacement item has been purchased. ;)

Wife's engagement ring went missing for 18 months - reappeared 2 days after we submitted the insurance claim.

[ramblingboy42]

I think the black hole also incorporates a memory erasing signal. It's 25metres from my carport to my workshed and when I get to the shed I don't know why I'm there. So I walk back to the carport and then remember why I walked down to the shed. Funny how once I'm out of range of the black hole the memory floods back.

[Roverlord off road spares]

:D I have a black hole on my Disco 2.
I have been looking for my multigrips I found them 2 days ago, in between my Radiator and the condenser, that black hole also held my wire stripper/crimper.

:mad:but the black hole claimed a new 10mm ring spanner shortly after, Even with the grill out, radiator , condenser, oil and trans coolers out, the bottom stone guard removed, head lights out and virtually every conceivable hidey hole exposed, the black hole sent my ring spanner into the never never. I did stick my hand into every nook and cranny but was worried that the dark matter in the black hole would suck me in also, so gave up.
:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused: :confused::confused:

[Bushie]

I think black holes are genetic thing that aligns with the Y chromosome.

I have mine in the garage as well, but I'm sure it is able to transform and pop up close to wherever you happen to be.


Martyn

[Fifth Columnist]

Somewhere there's a huge black hole that digests all those little red tubes from WD40 cans.
There must be billions of 'em there by now......

[Stuck]

30 metres of 3/8" air line, a large coffee jar of stainless nuts and bolts, large roll of bright orange whipper snipper chord, aerosol cans of CRC, aerostart etc., a small trolley jack and a box of drill bits and that's what I've noticed that I've "lost" so far. I'm doubting theft as there's no sign of a break in and the value of what's gone as opposed to what's left :confused: plus I've still got my wheelbarrow :D.

[jx2mad]

Hey Stuck. I thing yours is a vortex!! Stand well clear:o:o:o

[bee utey]

In the quest for balance, the secrets of the universe and suchlike, it is important to realise a black hole's opposite is a white hole. So a mature shed can be both a black hole and a white hole, sometimes at the same time. I have stubbed my toe on items I swear I never bought in the first place. The one sided black hole phase of a shed seems to be its juvenile phase. They grow up, and flow starts to reverse. Ever looked into a properly aged shed and failed to be totes amazed at what you find? The mysteries of a fully evolved shed.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

My result of "black hole sheds" is to leave everything out lying on the floor,, no hidey holes, no cupboards.
Mrs Pedro's thinking is NOT along the same lines:angel:

[sheerluck]

We have a black hole in our house as well as the shed. The one in the house was given the scientific name "TeenageChildStomach 14" by astronomers, whereby all foodstuffs are sucked into said void within seconds of having touched the pantry or refrigerator shelves. Attempting to look for the purchased foodstuffs the same day as they were purchased will invariably be met with the answer "TeenageChild 14 has eaten it".

The one in the shed I call "Putitbackwhereyoubloodyfounditnotwhereyouthinkitsh ouldgo". It is a scientific principle whereby any other users of tools or other implements will ignore where they found the tool and try to impose their own filing system on the normal user of said tools or implements, meaning what would normally be a 10 minute job turns into 40 minutes of looking for the tool, 5 minutes of trudging back to the house to ask "do you know where X has gone", followed by "I put it in Y", followed by a five minute trudge back to the shed, and then the 10 mins of labour.

[Grumbles]

I've got one too but I'm more interested in how you get warranty on a defective black hole. You see - I've been waiting patiently for ages for it to absorb Mrs Grumbles but to date nothing. :mad: Did I buy the wrong size black hole? Is it underpowered?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Mrs Pedro thinks the BSL is one,, absorbs everything, has a special fondness for boxes with LR markings, LPG, and money.
I know for fact it absorbs light cos everytime I go out to drive it there's nothing there--- :unsure:

[one_iota]

No our shed is not a black hole...I know this because I can and have to take things out to get to the workbench.

What it seems to be to others in the household is more like the TARDIS....it goes like this: "let's put it in the shed there's plenty of room".

But the reality is the opposite, a SIDRAT, very large on the outside but with no space on the inside. :mad:

[Modelsp]

It's there !!Waiting !!
Waiting for you to come into the shed in bare feet or thongs.
It's sitting vertical with the point up WAITING!!WAITING!!WAITING!!
just at the edge of a shadow.
let me know when it finds you.:D:D:mad:
cheers
Paul

[Hall]

Ok who has wandering black hole? You should really keep them in your own shed. One paid a visit to my shed recently. Took me ages to find what I was after. Tried looking for some thing else. Casually and randomly tidying up a bench whilst keeping a look out for what I was after. Did find several other lost items until I gave up and then there it was. I personaly don`t have a black hole of my own in the shed and I don`t wan`t to pick up a stray one. I do though have a portal to another dimension if any one is after one. Still working mysteriously and randomly after years of service.
Cheers Hall

[jx2mad]

Hi Grumbles. If you fit a HICLONE they run faster