Thread: Black Hole

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

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.

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

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.......

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]

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.

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.

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.

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.