[modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage

Jesse

I am constantly dropping things, and usually losing them!    My worst 
example was years ago, when I was making a half-sized version of a Stuart 
V10 stationary engine.   I reduced the plans, but of course there were no 
castings, so everything was made from scratch.   The slide valve was tiny - 
about the size of my little fingernail - and it took me half a day to make - 
and then I dropped it.     Your workshop floor sounds a bit like mine!    It 
was in brass, so magnets did not help.   After two hours on my hands and 
knees I did not find it, so I started to move the furniture - and Oh Joy! 
there it was under a cupboard.

Cheers!  from  Hubert in slightly warmer St Albans

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jesse Livingston" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 5:30 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Digital Angle Guage


> Hubert,
>
> Don't feel badly about dropping things.  You have several years on me and 
> I
> have already noticed how easy it is to drop things.  Maybe they make an
> anti-drop pill, something like Viagra® that can help us old people.  I 
> have
> to be careful about dropping things in my shop as they seem to vanish into 
> a
> black hole or something!.  Maybe if I cleared out 30 years of floor mess 
> it
> would help, but that would only allow round objects to roll farther into 
> the
> black hole and be more difficult to locate.  I really ought to be down in
> the shop working on my next project for a possible LSOR article, but here 
> I
> sit pecking away at the keyboard.
>
> Jesse in icy but melting thank goodness,  Troy, TN USA.
>
>

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