IF we're doing shop tricks--anchor used nylon hosiery over the end of vac suction tube allowing slight "cup" in end. Turn vac on, pic up the parts and pick them off the nylon or turn. Vac off with tube over appropriate receptacle. HOW you get the hosiery is up to you Jim Lyle Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 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) > > > >
