Been giving Betty some love today, oil change, points, condenser etc. all going swimmingly until number 4 spark plug falls out of the socket and away into the darkened abyss that is the gap between the head and the tin ware. Bugger. I could just see it with a bendy mirror on a stick but no way of reaching it. After resigning myself to having to remove the tin ware from that side of the engine I suddenly remembered an old telescopic magnet jobby that I knew was somewhere in the garage, slightly broken and bent and meant for the bin but I'd left it on the shelf by the door. After a bit of buggering about it got hold of the offending spark plug and life was once again rosy. So there we have it, don't throw anything away because you can guarantee it will be just the jobby your looking for!
Whenever something like this happens I can NEVER find my telescopic magnet thingy, it knows I need it and just naffs off. Then I'll find it a few days later when the need has passed.
if not you could always poke a piece of fuel hose down n try n push it over the end to get it , i know what you mean though i have magnetic mirror ting and the old 3 claw ting .
That'll be the evil garage fairies paking the tiss. it is them that drops spark plugs too. I seem to have a nest I my garage.
The same species of garage faerie's seem to steel all my 10, 12 and 13 mm spanners....getting ahead of them now...I have at least three of each
When I first devices Tilly I took out the spark plugs and shone a torch into the tin ware, eventually extracted six plugs, plus the four screwed in correctly. Some of the rescued ones were found to be servicable.
You need to keep them in the fridge or sock draw...never a toolbox, they will find and steal them. Always keep one step ahead of them
The magnet flexi thingy (I think that is the technical term) is one of the most essential tools for playing about buses! And a 14mm spanner was very handy today for the nuts on the engine mount bar, maybe someone nicked them from a Japanese car?
Have a length of string with a 13mm at each end and thread it through your sleeve, around your neck and back down the other sleeve just like those mittens your mother made you wear! You'll never be short of a 13mm again. Of course your other spanners will get jealous and refuse to work after this blatant display of spanner favouritism but you can't have it all ways can you.
Tidied my tools yesterday, who knows I might get something back from a garage at some point and get to use them again
It's not your tools' fault you get frustrated, they don't like being flung around Have more tea breaks and a kitkat
