Don't you just hate it.....

Hawk Joined: Jan 10, 2012 Posts: 452 Location: Chicago

Don't you just hate it when you can't find a tool....and come to find out it's exactly where YOU left it... Shocked

It seems I'm loosing my mind sometimes...Anyone else..?
It's like I need to be so diligent about putting everything back in its place....if I can remember where it goes... Laughing

E

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:01 pm

I recently put everything away again as I have three projects going.
I had to mentally prep myself to go to the tool box.

Another thing I did was throw out about 25 lbs. of fasteners that were on my two benches and table.....
This reduced the clutter and made a lot more room for the Crown Royal and the laptop.

Seriously though....I am back in a regimen where I am staying better organized. I find it reduces stress!

Jebby

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:11 pm

I find it useful to have a 5 minute break period about every 30-60 minutes and put all your tools away in the middle of a job. I swear, sometimes I spend more time looking for that one socket then it would have taken for me to go to the store and buy a new bike. So if you put it back where it belongs, it's always where you expect it to be. Goes without saying but, clean up your tools after the project is completed too.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 7:30 pm

that is the exact reason I have 3 to 4 of the more common wrench and socket sizes, in most cases before the project is complete I will have set every 10mm socket down somewhere, where, who knows, but at times it has been weeks before I realized, oh ya, I set that down in the backyard when I stopped to go do . . .

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:12 pm

I make tidying up and putting everything away again it's own seperate project after I finish a project. Or part way through if it's a big one.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:20 pm

What I hate is the last couple of years I can't read the socket size without cheaters anymore. I never keep a pair on me. Drives me up a wall.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:45 pm

I spent half a day turning the house upside down looking for a set of bearings to put in my front wheel. I was at the point of ordering a new set when I remembered I had put them in the freezer the day before to 'save time' the next day...

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:25 pm

Bone wrote:

I spent half a day turning the house upside down looking for a set of bearings to put in my front wheel. I was at the point of ordering a new set when I remembered I had put them in the freezer the day before to 'save time' the next day...

Such an obvious place to store bearings as well Rolling Eyes

I've never been good at remembering things, I've been like it since I was a teen' though, so I'm used to it now Very Happy

I have to be organised, so my socket set is just over there (the top of a wooden box, with the other tools I expect to need). When I've finished (for now) with that 10mm socket, it goes back in it's spot in the box. Probably sat up for ease of retrieval in a minutes time, after I've done with this 12mm socket which'll go back in its spot in the box.....
Once I've done what I can for today, everything gets a wipe over with an oily rag and goes back where it belongs in my tool box. It rains so much up here it could be a few weeks before I can move on from the last time, by which time everything is showing signs of rust if they don't get a light oil coat. By that time I'll have completely forgotten where I put 'that tool', unless it goes back where it belongs.

My wife, on the other hand, remembers everything. Where I left my gloves, or whatever. The least detail of ~~the last time~~ when I've stepped out of line, going back a looooong way. Arguments. Agreements (which I've got absolutely no recollection of at all) and so on Very Happy

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:47 pm

Ok Bone, you Aussies never cease to amaze me with ingenuity but bearings in the freezer???? Don't think you were gonna throw that one out there and not have to explain it......

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:06 am

Who doesn't keep replacement bearings in their freezer? These are for my 750F rebuild. Just waiting for time (ugh!!!) to heat up the hub to seat the ice cold bearings into them. And I always know where they are because they are right under the Appelkorn! LOL!!!

Steve

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:15 am

I had an idea that was it...shrink the bearing, heat the hub and installation is easier....makes perfect sense....

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:24 am

Simon, I believe that is called selective memory. Wink

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:04 am

Wayne750F wrote:

Ok Bone, you Aussies never cease to amaze me with ingenuity but bearings in the freezer???? Don't think you were gonna throw that one out there and not have to explain it......

Helluva lot easier than wheel in the oven...

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:20 am

Erock wrote:

Don't you just hate it when you can't find a tool....and come to find out it's exactly where YOU left it... Shocked

...

People say: 'I found it in the last place I looked' which kind of makes sense since you typically stop looking once your find what you were looking for but lately, by the time I find what I was looking for, I forgot I was looking for it so I keep looking, proving that it's not always in the last place you look.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:24 am

MinnesotaF wrote:

What I hate is the last couple of years I can't read the socket size without cheaters anymore. I never keep a pair on me. Drives me up a wall.

Buy some of the different colored ones from harbor freight... works for me. I
know purple is 10mm black= 12mm, red= 14mm Wink

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:48 am

I have several sets of sockets and for the most part they're too old to be from HF. Some are from the 1960s or so.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:44 pm

I worked out years ago that if I couldn't find something I would mention it to my wife that I couldn't find this or that, and she then goes on a mission to find it to prove to me that she is smarter at finding things than I am. Has worked well for me for years because once I have told her I can stop looking and get on with something else till she finds what I was looking for. Then I just tell her how smart she is so I have brownie points for the next time

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 4:28 pm

norm wrote:

I worked out years ago that if I couldn't find something I would mention it to my wife that I couldn't find this or that, and she then goes on a mission to find it to prove to me that she is smarter at finding things than I am. Has worked well for me for years because once I have told her I can stop looking and get on with something else till she finds what I was looking for. Then I just tell her how smart she is so I have brownie points for the next time

That should be a sticky. Laughing

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:47 pm

Bucko wrote:

norm wrote:

I worked out years ago that if I couldn't find something I would mention it to my wife that I couldn't find this or that, and she then goes on a mission to find it to prove to me that she is smarter at finding things than I am. Has worked well for me for years because once I have told her I can stop looking and get on with something else till she finds what I was looking for. Then I just tell her how smart she is so I have brownie points for the next time

That should be a sticky. Laughing

Absolutely Bucko, great thinking norm Very Happy

I've just got to "remember" to do it now Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:17 am

bobcat's rule : quit looking for it and you will find it.

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:22 pm

bobcat7 wrote:

bobcat's rule : quit looking for it and you will find it.

+1. It'll turn up.

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 7:27 pm

1100russ wrote:

bobcat7 wrote:

bobcat's rule : quit looking for it and you will find it.

+1. It'll turn up.

Usually when "she who must be obeyed" exclaims something along the lines of, "OI, YOU, what the F' is this doing in my freezer???" Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:44 pm

At lest when I walk into the kitchen holding a pair of engine cases to go in the oven, as this has been going on for so many years, all she asks now is "how long, 20 mins?"

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:40 pm

norm wrote:

At lest when I walk into the kitchen holding a pair of engine cases to go in the oven, as this has been going on for so many years, all she asks now is "how long, 20 mins?"

It IS possible to train them, but it takes enormous patience Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:17 pm

Apparently Simon, you're not familiar with Colombian women....totally not trainable...😳

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:49 pm

Wayne750F wrote:

Apparently Simon, you're not familiar with Colombian women....totally not trainable...😳

Very true Wayne.
The nearest I've been to anywhere South American is the Falkland Islands. I was involved in the bit of excitement we had there in '82
Latin women are notoriously difficult to train, whichever part of the World they were born tho Laughing

Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:14 pm

I'm gonna have to hide the wheel bearings inside of something....like a turkey might work!!! O_O....motor casings in the oven??? That's not even a remote possibility!!! I have however gotten away so far with the 900 cans going in the 750 on the dresser in the bedroom....she thinks they are "cute"....any bike parts near food is a more difficult challenge....

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 2:54 am

Wayne750F wrote:

I'm gonna have to hide the wheel bearings inside of something....like a turkey might work!!! O_O....motor casings in the oven??? That's not even a remote possibility!!! I have however gotten away so far with the 900 cans going in the 750 on the dresser in the bedroom....she thinks they are "cute"....any bike parts near food is a more difficult challenge....

Dude, buy her a new oven for the kitchen, then take the old one, have some 220v wired into your shop, and voila!

You'll be baking parts in no time!

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 6:44 pm

cliffiec wrote:

Dude, buy her a new oven for the kitchen, then take the old one, have some 220v wired into your shop, and voila!

You'll be baking parts in no time!

And if you've got an oven, a fridge will be needed to complete the set.
Somewhere to keep the 'after work BBQ meats and chilled drinks', in between chilling motor parts and bearings etc Very Happy

Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:07 pm

Simon and Cliff, you obviously have done a much better job of wife training. Unfortunately the oven is new and the old one had both coils out so it was not salvageable....but a used one is possible!!! I have a nice 26 cu ft fridge in the garage....however her kids left the door ajar three times in successive weeks two summers ago in a hot FL garage and destroyed the compressor....bike parts have been more important than a new fridge......but you guys are wonderful tutors and mentors....keep the lessons coming!!!!