Hi Bud. I believe Micro Mark has such an item in its catalogue. Good idea..
Jim Martin > On September 24, 2013 at 7:45 AM [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > Bill, boB, I have been picking small parts up off the floor for years. One > day I decided to pick up a butcher's apron from our local butcher shop. I > inquired about buying a used apron, laundered of course! They sold me one for > $5. I cut the tie strings off and had my wife sew on some Velcro squares at > the lower corners. I glued the other half of the Velcro under the lower edge > of my workbench. This works real well at catching the errant small parts, or > maybe about 99% of them anyway. I put a small cup hook under the bench edge > also, centered, to hang the neck loop on when I'm done with it. One does have > to remember to "hang" the neck loop before getting up and walking away though! > I understand jewelers have used something similar for years. > > Bud Rindfleisch > > > > ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why is it that everything I drop falls on the floor? > > This makes me curse and fret as I try to find something to lean on, so that I > can bend over and pick it up, that is, after I find the darn thing. > > If Mary is near-by, she will hurriedly pick it up, so as to save me from my > frustrations. > > > > I guess when we were younger we never minded dropping anything. Tsk! Tsk! > > > > If I can get away from this computer, I hope to get back to running trains > and working on my layout. With John Bortz gone, I've been thinking a lot about > Frank Titman. On those marvelous shots of John's layout you see the large port > and cargo ship underneath it. Well, Frank Titman built that for John, as a > present, now that is what good friends do for one another. > > Frank also helped dig out John's basement! > > > > I love model railroading the friends it produces and I do miss my buddies who > have passed on to the Great Railroad in the sky!! > > "S"ee Ya, > > Bill (Fraley) > > > > > >
