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Flying bits!

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Having just spent ten minutes crawling around the floor looking for the last piece of plastic that flew off my desk, I thought, in my exasperation share this observation. There is absolutely no relationship between the size of the bit that falls of the work surface, to the distance in travels away from the place from which it fell? Why can't they just drop and land directly underneath. The piece I just dropped on the floor was found, eventually, on the landing!

The room I build in is small, about 9 long feet. The piece dropped off the table and landed more than 10 feet away. HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?????????????????????????????????

GRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought modelling was supposed to be relaxing?
 
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. The piece dropped off the table and landed more than 10 feet away. HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN?????????????????????????????????
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I dunno, but it's happened to me too. If you do work it out would you let me know please :)

Cheers

Steve
 
I know your pain! In my work shed I can guarantee that if a piece falls on the floor it will bounce under the table to the furthest reaches of the shed...this involves moving items and crawling to find the offending article.

I am sure that the model pixies wait to snatch the falling items and hide them...one day I will catch them!

Si:)
 
This has happened to me lots of times but the worst time it happened I spent ages on all fours looking for a dropped piece only to give up and the find it about a couple of hours later...........................stuck to my sock !
 
I share your pain with me i can see where it lands but by the time i get to it its gone now work that one out!!???? .

Peter t
 
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This has happened to me lots of times but the worst time it happened I spent ages on all fours looking for a dropped piece only to give up and the find it about a couple of hours later...........................stuck to my sock !
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This has happened to me lots of times but the worst time it happened I spent ages on all fours looking for a dropped piece only to give up and the find it about a couple of hours later...........................stuck to my sock !
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Oh yes - finding bits in clothing is just as irritating. Should I therefore do my modelling naked??? It might please any passing onlookers (wishful thinking) but the thought of CA glue dropping down onto parts of me below, does not bear thinking about!
 
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As I have said before I hate.

"What are you doing down there" ? . Most stupid question I can think of. :rolleyes:

Thinking of getting one of those small hand held vacs. That will be multi tasking cleaning the carpet and leaving it to vac. to search.

Never mind Aidan you will recover. Think of the exercise to the spine. :rolleyes: Bet the tongue gets a bit as well. Bet you cannot record that here !

Laurie
 
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I can beat that I build models in the outhouse, but I lost a piece to the carpet monster only to find it when I went to bed on the floor in the bedroom. I recon it must have got caught in my clothes or something.
 
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I have the incorrect habit of working near the opened garbage bucket....:confused: The first thing is to pray... in order that the piece falls on the floor :)
 
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There's nothing worse than losing a bit, spending ages blindly searching for it, only to give up in disgust.

Then later SWMBO does some hoovering & you hear that tell-tale rattle of your lost part heading into the bag :(
 
I've spent many a good hour on all fours in my time, looking for small parts and oh the joy when you find it/them
 
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As I have said before I hate."What are you doing down there" ? . Most stupid question I can think of. :rolleyes:

Thinking of getting one of those small hand held vacs. That will be multi tasking cleaning the carpet and leaving it to vac. to search.

Never mind Aidan you will recover. Think of the exercise to the spine. :rolleyes: Bet the tongue gets a bit as well. Bet you cannot record that here !

Laurie
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Thinking of getting one of those small hand held vacs. That will be multi tasking cleaning the carpet and leaving it to vac. to search.

one of the best bits of kit I have to hand Laurie.
 
it happens all the time to me as well spend not min,s looking but hrs and never to be found,in most instances ,:confused:

it must build up to max speed very quickly so when it hits the carpet, has the speed to bonce ,to unseen reaches, ;)

or its Gregg little friend waiting, but in my case maybe the furry ones lucking about:oops: :rolleyes:
 
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it happens all the time to me as well spend not min,s looking but hrs and never to be found,in most instances ,:confused:it must build up to max speed very quickly so when it hits the carpet, has the speed to bonce ,to unseen reaches, ;)

or its Gregg little friend waiting, but in my case maybe the furry ones lucking about:oops: :rolleyes:
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I take it you mean the cat moni :rolleyes: :D
 
I use a torch and my glasses to search through the carpet some dropped parts have been retrieved using this method others have disappeared forever but what I really enjoy is when you scratch build apart that's gone missing only for it to turn up weeks later when you are looking for something else but the biggest item/part I've lost is a1/72 horse from my Airfix royal artillery set didn't drop it it's just gone missing and have no clue to its whereaboutsView attachment 86977

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I use a torch and my glasses to search through the carpet some dropped parts have been retrieved using this method others have disappeared forever but what I really enjoy is when you scratch build apart that's gone missing only for it to turn up weeks later when you are looking for something else but the biggest item/part I've lost is a1/72 horse from my Airfix royal artillery set didn't drop it it's just gone missing and have no clue to its whereaboutsView attachment 87434
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You put it in a safe place for later? :D
 
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