Found it!!

[Waspie]

A few weeks ago I decided to move my completed kits to somewhere safe in preparation for the up coming garage make over! (this week).

During the move one of the wing mirrors off the VW Beetle fell onto the garage floor!!! Couldn't find it for the life of me. Then yesterday, Mem Sahib and I emptied the garage, looking for the missing part. (I somehow don't think he ladyship didn't have her heart in the search). No luck.
Then today whilst sweeping up some of the detritus, dead bugs and spiders! Whoa - there it was, all 6mm of it, even painted chrome it had blended into the dust really well. So a small little repair job once the garage is returned back to my workplace!!

Moral of the story - never stop looking!!

[Gern]

Not quite Doug. You can stop looking when you've bought/made a replacement - then found the original which can go into your spares box!

[boatman]

YES Doug i had my eletric circut tester fall to bits last wk an just as i was goin to mend it the big tenshion spring flew out of it an its quite big but can i find it no way its amazezin that something that big can just dissapear but it has so sent for a new one an i bet once it comes i'll find that spring Aaaarrrrcccchhhhh
chrisb

[Gern]

PJ managed to drop a piece about 1cm long and 1/4 cm square on Monday. Took us nearly 40 minutes to find it as it had bounced around 6 feet and ended up under the sofa!

Mind you. I can't verify the accuracy of that as PJ sometimes pretends to have dropped something just for the enjoyment of watching me scrabble around on my hands and knees looking for it! Little b****r!

[boatman]

PJ managed to drop a piece about 1cm long and 1/4 cm square on Monday. Took us nearly 40 minutes to find it as it had bounced around 6 feet and ended up under the sofa!

Mind you. I can't verify the accuracy of that as PJ sometimes pretends to have dropped something just for the enjoyment of watching me scrabble around on my hands and knees looking for it! Little b****r!

COR Dave id go light if i had that stunt pulled on me as now gettin old if i have to go down on the floor its a job to get up again so tell P/J he is a naughy boy if he does that again this modelin lark is hard enough with out that kind of hassle WOW
Chrisb

[Guest]

Still looking for the 3 inch long piece of copper wire that went skywards.... Had all the stuff from under the bench out, did the usual caterpiller crawl and with the torch to get a glint of copper, turned out the waste paper bin and went through all of the stuff in there (do tissues really stay that wet and sticky).... And today despite two hoover cleans not a sign....

[Bri62]

Lost count of the amount of tiny bits the carpet monster has devoured

[Ian M]

I have a wood laminat floor in the cave, I can normally hear where they go. The ones that evade me are those where you wait for the sound of it hitting the floor to hear which way it bounces/rolls but never land. Where do they go?

[Gern]

I have a wood laminat floor in the cave, I can normally hear where they go. The ones that evade me are those where you wait for the sound of it hitting the floor to hear which way it bounces/rolls but never land. Where do they go?

Has your carpet monster evolved and become airborne since you've destroyed its natural habitat by removing the carpet?

[Waspie]

I have a wood laminat floor in the cave, I can normally hear where they go. The ones that evade me are those where you wait for the sound of it hitting the floor to hear which way it bounces/rolls but never land. Where do they go?

Alien abduction Ian. :tears-of-joy:

[boatman]

WELL YOU say that Doug but in a real book about lightning crashes its listed in the book of about a lightning that crashed in the sea an when they recoved it they found the cockpit still sealed up but no sign of the two pilots an still a mystery to this day an they went out to a radar sighting makes you wonder dont it
chrisb

[langy71]

Still looking for the 3 inch long piece of copper wire that went skywards.... Had all the stuff from under the bench out, did the usual caterpiller crawl and with the torch to get a glint of copper, turned out the waste paper bin and went through all of the stuff in there (do tissues really stay that wet and sticky).... And today despite two hoover cleans not a sign....

it's probably stuck in the ceiling

[Andy T]

I'm doing quite well so far in the new room, the carpet monster hasn't claimed anything yet.

With the scratch building I've been doing lately though the floor always seems to gets covered in tiny offcuts of plastic that stick to my footwear and get spread around the house. That means my room gets vacuumed almost daily, along with the rest of the downstairs. I'm sure that was Zoë's reason for letting me move indoors :tears-of-joy:
But the super clean floor does make finding dropped parts a whole lot easier than it was in the shed!

[Jim R]

Slightly off topic, model related loses that is, but I once lost my father's car. I was 17 and had just passed my driving test. At that time I was going out with a girl called Gillian and dad lent me the car, a Hillman Minx, to take said girlfriend for a day out in York. Got to York, parked in a car park by the city walls and holding hands and feeling like Jack the Lad showed Gillian the sights of that great city. Late afternoon and back to the carpark to set off home. Shock of shocks - the car was gone! Panic. Found a phone box and rang dad who was not impressed. He got a neighbour to drive him to York to collect us. Meanwhile Gillian and I went to the Police Station to report the theft and await my dad. I was no longer feeling quite so Jack the Lad.
Anyway to cut a long story short the car was still exactly where I'd left it. I had been looking in the wrong carpark. How was I to know, as a naive 17 year old, that there was more than one large carpark overlooked by the city walls. One length of wall looks very like another.

[Waspie]

Only been to York once, enjoyed the visit. I was a wee bit younger but it left a life long memory. York Minster, an underground museum, name lost in the fog of time!!.
I must say I would never haven forget the place - ever!! If I lost my old mans car!! (If he had one that is).
Out of interest, has he let you forget???