Time to quit for the day

[Monty]

You know its time to quit the shop for the day when you have three pen kits, still in the bags, and you lay them down to put something else up behind you and when you turn back around you can find only two of the three kits. Searched all around and even emptied the trash 3 times with no luck. Hopefully it will show up later when I'm looking for something else.

 

[jttheclockman]

You know its time to quit the shop for the day when you have three pen kits, still in the bags, and you lay them down to put something else up behind you and when you turn back around you can find only two of the three kits. Searched all around and even emptied the trash 3 times with no luck. Hopefully it will show up later when I'm looking for something else.

OH MAN. Have been there and done that with many many things. I wrote not long ago a huge problem I am having is that I am making so many new blanks and I am forgetting which kit I designated for the blank and trying to measure tubes is not working. I finally started writing kits and blanks down on paper. But yesterday I could not find the paper. I am going to have to start making a chart and saving on the computer and unless I forget how to turn that on I should have a copy. OK I feel better now.

 

[derekdd]

I cranked out 9 this week trying for 11.

Trying to keep blanks and kits organized was a challenge!

I hope you're able to find the kit.

 

[randyrls]

Been there, done that, lost the t-shirt! I have two "Build Boxes" for pens in process. Each plastic organizer box has 8 compartments. Each will hold the blanks, and kit. Bushings, spacers, and push blocks go in there too. I usually make multiples of the same kit.

 

[Bryguy]

People seem to be unaware of something, that as a physicist, I have known for a long time. Every workshop has a black hole. The black hole has an appetite for small parts, it moves around the shop waiting for the crafts-person to put something down and then turn away. As soon as you have turned away, the black hole appears and your small part is whisked into a parallel universe where another version of you picks up the part and says "I wonder how that got there?"

 

[Monty]

I wasn't going to say this because you'd thought I was crazy. I think it's my FIL moving things on me. He was a machinist and always out in his shop fiddling around with something. His health was declining so a few years before he passed, we moved him and MIL into a small mobile home on our property. He was able to help me finish the inside of my shop and get it setup. It was a few years after he passed when I got my first lathe and started turning. It was after that I started noticing things disappear and then reappear somewhere in the shop. I believe it's him watching what I'm doing.

 

[thewishman]

I wasn't going to say this because you'd thought I was crazy. I think it's my FIL moving things on me. He was a machinist and always out in his shop fiddling around with something. His health was declining so a few years before he passed, we moved him and MIL into a small mobile home on our property. He was able to help me finish the inside of my shop and get it setup. It was a few years after he passed when I got my first lathe and started turning. It was after that I started noticing things disappear and then reappear somewhere in the shop. I believe it's him watching what I'm doing.

He must be following me around, too! Especially when I'm in a hurry and don't have time to look for whatever thing I just put down.

 

[Muddydogs]

I'm always setting my 6" ruler down in random spots then having to look for it so I purchased 2 more 6" rulers thinking if I have a couple rulers spread out in the shop I will be able to find one. Nope all 3 6" and the 12" rulers will all end up in the same random spot but I always seem to put my pencil back were it belongs. I think it's the right hand knowing what it's doing and the left hand just lollygagging around doing what ever it feels like.