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alan2525 · 01-04-2008

I found some parts under the floorboards when doing some wiring - I guess when the part drops it actually travels through carpet by a process of telekinesis never to be seen again - well after 10 years or the next time you pull up the floorboards!

I couldn't remember what the parts where and the models had long since gone too!

I always find that crawling around on the floor under your desk looking for a small model part is a great way of finding the odd woodscrews and dressmaking pins you dropped on the floor earlier!

Oddly the other day I was cutting some 3/64" rivets to length and dropped a few on the floor of the shed (floor of shed = dusty nasty place with cobwebs in corners)

I was a few short so looked on the floor and the rivets were all next to eachother directly under the bench! They were copper rivets - perhaps the properties of this material do not result in the pinging across the room into a parallel dimension as with styrene model plastic kit parts!

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alan2525 Scale Model Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Essex, UK Real Name: Alan My Models: Anything that isn't worth throwing out Visit alan2525's Gallery Posts: 914 Thanks: 3 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Images: 39	I found some parts under the floorboards when doing some wiring - I guess when the part drops it actually travels through carpet by a process of telekinesis never to be seen again - well after 10 years or the next time you pull up the floorboards! I couldn't remember what the parts where and the models had long since gone too! I always find that crawling around on the floor under your desk looking for a small model part is a great way of finding the odd woodscrews and dressmaking pins you dropped on the floor earlier! Oddly the other day I was cutting some 3/64" rivets to length and dropped a few on the floor of the shed (floor of shed = dusty nasty place with cobwebs in corners) I was a few short so looked on the floor and the rivets were all next to eachother directly under the bench! They were copper rivets - perhaps the properties of this material do not result in the pinging across the room into a parallel dimension as with styrene model plastic kit parts! __________________ Last edited by alan2525; 01-04-2008 at 05:06.