Even worse is when you run across something that you just bought more of --
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 11:07 AM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > I've been there too. Sometimes I even remember buying the thing... > > -Curt > > > > > On Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 12:00:39 PM EST, Randy Bennell via > Mercedes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I have sort of the opposite problem. I buy bits of various stuff for a > project of some sort and put them in the basement. A while later, while > looking for something else, I open a bag and see a bunch of stuff and > wonder what I intended to do with it. > > Randy > > > On 11/01/2023 10:29 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > > Funny you should mention something lost. > > 11 months ago we went to "The Ancient Ones of Maine" gun show. I picked > up 1,000 percussion caps (the thing that sets off the black powder charge > in some of the old muzzle loaders) for $30 which is a STEAL at today's > prices. For comparison right now on GunBroker I see them from $30-$50 per > 100, so $3/100 is great. > > > > When we got back to my parent's house I took a picture and posted it on > a muzzleloader forum. Then the next week I realized the caps were nowhere > to be found. Not in my bag, not in the truck, not at my parent's house, > just gone. > > > > Yesterday I found them in a random paper bag in our basement. No idea > how they got there... > > > > > > -Curt > > > > On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 06:22:53 PM EST, Buggered Benzmail via > Mercedes <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I finally got the lug bolts off the S550. The chrome cap on one came > off. They were all torqued to about 500ftlbs. Then the wheel was welded to > the hub. I managed to get a stubby flat screwdriver in between the back of > the wheel and the hub and beat on it enough in the small space inside the > wheel spokes to finally pop it loose. > > > > So then I take a look at the wheel speed sensor and lo it was gone. The > bolt was there but the whole sensor was gone. Not plugged in. I guess > that’s why there’s a ESP ABS code on that wheel. I know I did not do > this. Maybe someone jacked it at the auction yard or where I got it. Who > knows. I also know I had ordered the part some time ago and it was in the > car on the passenger floor. So I go to get it and it’s nowhere to be found. > The bag it was in is there but no part. WTF. > > > > I am 99% certain I ordered the part. I also recall opening it and > looking at it and then looking up a vid on how to replace it. I didn’t do > it at that time for whatever reasons. I also remember moving it around. I > looked everywhere in the car. I feel like I am insane, have dementia, have > confabulated the whole thing, or something. And why the one that should be > on the car was missing is most curious too. > > > > Well I guess I need to order (another) one. And some new lug bolts too. > Sigh. > > > > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- OK Don "Quality of life is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing you are wearing." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." Mark Twain “Basic research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” Wernher Von Braun "In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it." -- Richard W. Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
