Oddest place you have found a missing part?

Pan_Am_Clipper_Girl · 01-04-2008

Matt lost a gun barrel to his 32nd 109 on Sunday...I found it Sunday night in the bed!!! (we are not strange...I'll attribute this to one of our cats, mebbe jack, had it between his large paws? Could be...alright dammit we are strange...where have you found strange places pieces of kit that have pinnged/zoomed/flew/etc?

**GEEDUBBYA** · 01-04-2008

Howdy miss perry,

Here are a few tips for finding lost model parts:

When you drop a part on the floor, first start by calculating the distance and direction it may have traveled. Then begin your search for the missing part, in the direct opposite direction, and
at least twice as far out as you originally calculated.

If you are unable to find the part a second method of searching may prove successful. To employ this alternate search method wait until late at night and walk through the modeling area barefoot on the way to the refridgerator (This is the Screaming Banshee Method).

If neither method locates the missing part, give up. The part has traveled to a parallel universe
and will not be returning to your floor for at least one year.

Hope these help,

Greg aka GEEDUBBYA (GW)

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!

tigertc · 02-04-2008

I use my children to find missing or pinged parts. I find that there tiny hands and small stature means that they can also slip dimensions when necessary.
.Children are also good at sweeping chimneys and working in asian sweatshops.
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.^I jest ofcourse^ (just incase Social Services are looking in!!)

Pan_Am_Clipper_Girl · 02-04-2008

Nope you are right...Matt often sends me up the chimney for a spot of cleaning

**wonwinglo** · 02-04-2008

This thread made me chuckle,many years ago I was sticking some wooden bits together with contact adhesive and laid them down on the bench to tack off,I turned around to gulp my cup of tea and then back again,the bits had vanished from the bench ! a frantic search ensued them my good wife said to me what are those funny bits sticking to your elbows !!
Geedubs tragectory track for bits is interesting,how many timeshave you found something on the floor to wonder how it jumped that far in the first place ? and why is it that when a part drops into an open box you can never locate it again until several years later !

linebacker55 · 03-04-2008

Many years ago, when my brother and I built our models, we did lose a few parts to the cat...one spitfire wing with tooth bite-marks was assembled after wresting it from our old puss's jaws, only to resemble a cannon shot through the wing...quite realistic...though not to be recommended!

The other place high on the priority was in the dust bag of the vacuum cleaner after one of mother's purges.

When looking for that elusive part, consider the philosophy of Sherlock Holmes..."Just because you cannot see it my dear Watson, does not mean it isn't there, for when one has exhausted the 'probable', then only the 'improbable' remains."

"Come along Watson, we must hurry...The game's afoot!!!"

Pan_Am_Clipper_Girl · 03-04-2008

Oooh one other thing, we found a few bits of resin chewed by mice, I guess the garage isn't a safe place for models either!

jspitza · 04-04-2008

Inside my shoe!!!!
MIA-propeller from nuiport17-last seen by large cat named "poncho" He may have dragged it to my bed and has since been sucked into the vacuum "$%%#"

**rjwood_uk** · 04-04-2008

found a sheet of p/e for a 1/48 aires kmd ejection seat stuck on my wall behind my desk once. it must have gone flying with a bit of c/a on it or something, couldnt find it for months. pulled everything out from under my desk, and there it was. stuck on the wall lol.

Richard