lost nuts!

[MoKelly]

This has happened so many times to me my wife got tired of hearing me complain.

So, she buys me boxes of small zip lock bags. Tells me each and every bolt, screw, nut, washer or anything I remove goes into the bag. No if, ands or buts.

If I’ll be using them later (v immediately) I write where they came from in a marker on the bag.

Bags go in a box in the barn.

It was difficult at first but now I’m used to it. I feel kind of silly but then again there is never anyone around to see what I’m doing except her!

 

[Menagerie-Manor]

This has happened so many times to me my wife got tired of hearing me complain.

So, she buys me boxes of small zip lock bags. Tells me each and every bolt, screw, nut, washer or anything I remove goes into the bag. No if, ands or buts.

If I’ll be using them later (v immediately) I write where they came from in a marker on the bag.

Bags go in a box in the barn.

It was difficult at first but now I’m used to it. I feel kind of silly but then again there is never anyone around to see what I’m doing except her!

The only problem is getting them from your hand safely to the bag for storage, that's where the challenge lies, lol.

 

[seville009]

Had to replace the battery in my whole house generator this morning…..this thread made me cautious,so I put any screws, bolts, fuses, etc in a small plastic food container with a snap on lid while I was working……success!

 

[MTGreen]

Agree with the ziplocks for non immediate use -fasteners for each assembly go together, labeled with a sharpie, and blue taped to a major component of the assembly. Helps some with demon fur balls aka cats and random movement events/jarring/rolling aka ghosts, but not so much if before getting it into the bag it drops off the workbench into the vortex of oblivion that is the workshop floor

My buddy uses a bolt "bucket" where every fastener for every assembly goes into a single coffee can and it drives me berserk - takes 3x as long to figure out where anything goes and you are guaranteed to have "extra" hardware when the job is done

 

[loggin]

Better to lose a couple of nuts than to lose your marbles... Though often one can cause the other to happen....

 

[bigtiller]

Had to replace the battery in my whole house generator this morning…..this thread made me cautious,so I put any screws, bolts, fuses, etc in a small plastic food container with a snap on lid while I was working……success!

You have better luck than me. I would have dropped the container upside down in a snow drift while trying to snap the lid on.

 

[grsthegreat]

Remember this

 

[yooperterry]

I also once changed the cabin air filter in my wiles Buick. But I used one of the magnetic trays to put the screws into. Ain't going to loose them metal screws! Putting things back together, you guessed it. All but one screw. I searched that car ten times, wife looked too. Frustrated I gave up put tools away. Two days later I needed the tray again. Guess what was stuck to the bottom of the tray? You got it. The screw. I traded the Buick in and forgot about the screw.

 

[yooperterry]

When I was young, my Dad always blamed me and my brothers for loosing his tools out of his tool box! I have no kids so I guess I blame my wife? She's always using something out of my tools. When I find the tool and ask her about it she says "oh I guess I forgot to put it back"??? Lifes little ups and downs.

 

[EddieWalker]

My wife is a tool thief too. She knows where I keep them, so they are easy to find. But when I can't find one of my tools, I look in her junk drawer first, and that's usually where she put them.

 

[MTGreen]

When I was young, my Dad always blamed me and my brothers for loosing his tools out of his tool box! I have no kids so I guess I blame my wife? She's always using something out of my tools. When I find the tool and ask her about it she says "oh I guess I forgot to put it back"??? Lifes little ups and downs.

That's when I provide her a basic set and voila we now have yours and mine -and mine are now off limits

 

[Thomas]

My wife is a tool thief too. She knows where I keep them, so they are easy to find. But when I can't find one of my tools, I look in her junk drawer first, and that's usually where she put them.

I thought my wife only that bad habit if I don't put her stuff back where I find it....yikes.

 

[airbiscuit]

I'm always surprised how you can forget where you set down a tool - and look and look, only to find it was pretty much in front of you all along.

 

[MTGreen]

I thought my wife only that bad habit if I don't put her stuff back where I find it....yikes.

Maybe you should put her stuff back in junk drawer too

 

[airbiscuit]

My nutty buddies always hangs close with my best friend Pete!

I thought it might be your friend Dick.

 

[Thomas]

Maybe you should put her stuff back in junk drawer too

 

[lilranch2001]

I thought it might be your friend Dick.

No, my friend Pete’s name is Peter, but we all call him Pete

 

[airbiscuit]

Last name Gozenya?

 

[BravoXray]

Since I have been working on my Nova for the last year, I do a lot of work at my bench assembling things and looking through the dozens of Ziplock bags for the small parts I need like screws, bolts and clips of some sort. After dropping so many of them, it's clean as a whistle under the bench from using the push broom to pull them out from under he bench. Seems they almost always hit by shoe and shoot off under it. A couple have fooled me though and went behind me under the Snap-On tool box, the little buggers.

 

[dstig1]

Yeah I used to drive my Dad nuts (speaking of lost nuts... ) growing up as per normal kid logic, when I finished with a tool, I'd drop it and walk away: done! Never put stuff back. That would drive him bonkers. As an adult, I put stuff back religiously and have very well organized tool boxes.