MMM
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Cliff, throw them in the fuel tank and they're supposed to get back where they belong sooner or later.
Left over parts
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( "The definition of an Engineer is someone who can take something apart, put it back together so it works just as well, and convince you that the parts left over are all in the interests of economy".
The corollary to this is that if you take something apart and put it back together often enough, you'll end up with two of them! )</font>
Well, there have been some really wonderful responses here, remarkably few useful ones, but I must say I've laughed out loud. I like the corollary quoted here the best. It sounds like Pennsylvania Dutch humor to me although in that case, this concept would fall into place after about a fifteen minute disertation that sounded educational until you suddenly realise your being streatched like gumby.
Actually, the idea of creating a video of the tractor going back together by watching it being taken apart in reverse is a real gem too.
Thanks everyone, you guys are clever.
Cliff
The corollary to this is that if you take something apart and put it back together often enough, you'll end up with two of them! )</font>
Well, there have been some really wonderful responses here, remarkably few useful ones, but I must say I've laughed out loud. I like the corollary quoted here the best. It sounds like Pennsylvania Dutch humor to me although in that case, this concept would fall into place after about a fifteen minute disertation that sounded educational until you suddenly realise your being streatched like gumby.
Actually, the idea of creating a video of the tractor going back together by watching it being taken apart in reverse is a real gem too.
Thanks everyone, you guys are clever.
Cliff
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I use baggies with a note card for small parts. And for wires and hoses, tape with dots on tem to match them up. A picture, or diagram helps also. Sometimes I'll put tape tabs on complex parts and tape tabs on bolt on parts so i know what came out of what hole.. etc.
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Masking tape and baggies. That makes a lot of sense. I guess you just need a standard way to mark the hole and the bolt so it's unique. I'll remember that one. Thanks.
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One way for specific parts is to use either paint pens or your wifes fingernail polish. You could color code upon removal then take a pic so you can clean up paint etc. Then you have a pic and the color coded fastener to reinstall
<font color="blue"> So my question is, what sort of organization or documentation do you use so you can get it all back together and have it still work? Do you separate parts and bin and label them? Take pictures of the machine as it comes apart so you have a reference? Number things so they go back together in the same order they came apart? </font>
Depending on what it is, all the above apply.
Depending on what it is, all the above apply.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( One way for specific parts is to use either paint pens or your wifes fingernail polish. )</font>
You know, I honestly don't think using my wife's finger nail polish would be a good idea.
Cliff
You know, I honestly don't think using my wife's finger nail polish would be a good idea.
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You know, I honestly don't think using my wife's finger nail polish would be a good idea.
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That sounds about right. I can remember when my wife came home while i was working on my 8n. I had the front grill inthe dishwasher 'degreasing' it, and had a few small parts inthe sink scrubbing them. Had a pot of water heating up with some leather orings soaking in it, in preperation to putting them on the hyd piston i was washing in the sink...
Remembering the look on her face, you would have thought I was taking a sledge hammer to her china, cheating on her with the neighbor, and doing a load of whites and colors in the laundry all at the same time! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Needless to say.. that has never happened again.... ( I no longer wash parts inside unless i know she is going to be gone a while!!! ).
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That sounds about right. I can remember when my wife came home while i was working on my 8n. I had the front grill inthe dishwasher 'degreasing' it, and had a few small parts inthe sink scrubbing them. Had a pot of water heating up with some leather orings soaking in it, in preperation to putting them on the hyd piston i was washing in the sink...
Remembering the look on her face, you would have thought I was taking a sledge hammer to her china, cheating on her with the neighbor, and doing a load of whites and colors in the laundry all at the same time! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
Needless to say.. that has never happened again.... ( I no longer wash parts inside unless i know she is going to be gone a while!!! ).
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<font color="blue"> ...my wife's finger nail polish... </font>
I haven't done this but you can get paint pens in a wide variety of colors these days. Auto parts store? MSC carries them for sure.
I worked in a body shop in high school/college and we'd have cars torn down for months waiting for parts. Each car had a parts tub (usually a gallon paint thinner can opened up on the side). All the small parts went in there and the larger parts that weren't scrap got tossed in the trunk (if it was there).
Can't remember ever leaving off an important part but I'm sure there were many spare minor parts. Back then it was pretty common to find brand new spare parts under the carpet and inside the door panels /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I haven't done this but you can get paint pens in a wide variety of colors these days. Auto parts store? MSC carries them for sure.
I worked in a body shop in high school/college and we'd have cars torn down for months waiting for parts. Each car had a parts tub (usually a gallon paint thinner can opened up on the side). All the small parts went in there and the larger parts that weren't scrap got tossed in the trunk (if it was there).
Can't remember ever leaving off an important part but I'm sure there were many spare minor parts. Back then it was pretty common to find brand new spare parts under the carpet and inside the door panels /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Back then it was pretty common to find brand new spare parts under the carpet and inside the door panels. )</font>
Are you among those, like me, who are old enough to remember when new cars delivered to the dealer had to go to their "make ready" folks before going on the showroom floor or out for potential buyers to see? In '57-'59, there was a small Plymouth/Dodge dealership across the street from my Dad's service station and I usually did the "make ready" on new vehicles for them; clean them up, check for missing or loose nuts and bolts, etc. and I always gathered up lots of spare nuts, bolts, and screws from the floorboards and trunk.
I used to just marvel at mechanics disassembling vehicles and throwing all the parts together to be cleaned and still be able to remember which ones went where to put them back together. And when I first started working on air tools, I tried to take them apart carefully to remember what order they went together, but it wasn't long before I was just completely disassembling them and throwing everything into one basket to go into the parts washer. And I loved it when mechanics took their air tools apart, couldn't figure out how to fix them, and sent them to me as "basket cases" because that just saved me the time of disassembling them.
Are you among those, like me, who are old enough to remember when new cars delivered to the dealer had to go to their "make ready" folks before going on the showroom floor or out for potential buyers to see? In '57-'59, there was a small Plymouth/Dodge dealership across the street from my Dad's service station and I usually did the "make ready" on new vehicles for them; clean them up, check for missing or loose nuts and bolts, etc. and I always gathered up lots of spare nuts, bolts, and screws from the floorboards and trunk.
I used to just marvel at mechanics disassembling vehicles and throwing all the parts together to be cleaned and still be able to remember which ones went where to put them back together. And when I first started working on air tools, I tried to take them apart carefully to remember what order they went together, but it wasn't long before I was just completely disassembling them and throwing everything into one basket to go into the parts washer. And I loved it when mechanics took their air tools apart, couldn't figure out how to fix them, and sent them to me as "basket cases" because that just saved me the time of disassembling them.
