This sounds like a story from my life... I had a machine completed, everything
was in place, when I noticed the smallest amount of rust on a tiny
irreplaceable part of a reproducer. So, in my OCD state of mind, I removed it
and proceeded to use a rotary steel brush to clean it - then whoosh the brush
grabbed it and flung it - not on the floor, not against the wall where I might
have had a chance of finding it, but out of the door of my shop while I
listened in horror to the sound of it hitting something that sounded like
shrubbery - a big tangle of shrubbery. I tried a magnet, no luck in finding it
- @#$%&!!! Luckily, I ran across the part from another collector, which also
had the tiniest bit of rust on it. Guess what - that's the way it's going to
stay.
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:14:48 -0400
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] A tale of woe...
>
> You need a powerful magnet to get it out of the crack.
>
> Jim Nichol
>
> On Sep 19, 2012, at 11:03 AM, David Barnett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > It was like a scene from an old movie.
> >
> > I was installing a combo attachment on my Edison Standard and had every in
> > just about the right position. I slightly rotated the mandrel to make sure
> > it still moved smoothly, and the tiny headless set screw in the double-gear
> > piece from the combo kit fell out. I guess I had backed it out a bit too
> > much while working. There I was in one of those sudden slow motion scenes
> > watching in horror as the screw slowly fell and bounced on the case, the
> > workbench, the chair, my foot and the floor while I flailed around trying
> > to stop it's merciless descent into the one crack in the cement floor under
> > the workbench while simultaneously contributing the classic drawn-out
> > dialog line: "Oooohhh Nooooo...."
> >
> > So, can anyone help locate that screw? I'd go for that double-gear piece
> > with the screw in it, if need be. I'd get 2 to have a backup (yes, I know
> > I'm sometimes klutsy).
> >
> > Thanks for hearing my tale of woe.
> >
> > David
> >
> > David Barnett [email protected]
> > C: 516-398-8668 www.FairLibertysCall.com
> > 3 Ike Place
> > Woodmere, NY 11598
> >
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