Only 1/2'' bolts on the car are the ones in the blocks main caps.......but we know what you mean...... .....ps.........carrier too.

 

Anything I "loose" on the floor is soon found in the mouth of my yellow lab.

 

GOOD NEWS. I just found a 1/2" Craftsman socket on my garage floor. I know it isn't mine as all my sockets are "Husky" Brand. Not sure how it got to my place... but it must be yours..

Come collect it and I'll let you wrench on my '79 project while you're here.

 

I didn't lose a socket, but I was under my car and unbolted my headers to install the exhaust pipes. Got the driver's side pipe in and bolted loosely. I'm laying on my back with the rear-most two header bolts directly above me. I get the end one in, and go to bolt in the next one in. I give it a couple of turns then pull my wrench away to see if it caught. I see the bolt coming out with it, so i figured that I'd let it fall, hit me in the head, and I'd pick it up whichever way I felt it bounce.

Well, joke was on me...I heard it fall but didn't feel anything hit me. I knew EXACTLY where it went! I grabbed my handy dandy mirror, and sure enough....it fell into the black hole in the middle of where the 4 header pipes converge into 1. I grabbed my magnet, but since everything is metal, I couldn't feel it grab the bolt, so I kept pushing trying to get it.

I tried for an hour to get it out using everything from my magnet to a wire coat hanger, but all I did was get it wedged in there VERY tight.

I have at least one spare header bolt (re-used the one that holds on the A/C compressor bracket), so since the lost bolt is not near any moving parts and it can stand the heat, I decided to leave it there until I do my frame-off next year.

Talk about frustration....I know exactly where it is but cannot get it.

 

outside i usually find misplaced things with my lawn mower.

 

And promptly send them to the neighbors yard.

 

Working under the front of my DD in the driveway one time I dropped a socket and when I went to get it I couldn't find it, after 20 mins of looking and scratching my head I found it up against the rear tire under the car

 

It's behind the couch.

 

 

Can't be! Because I found mine, but if your fridge is stocked with plenty of cold ones, count me in!

I looked within ten feet and under everything, nothing. Then I started on the passenger side headlight. Bins, tools, rubber mat and the worklight. Just working along and something shiny caught my eye....



That's the vacuum tank/bumper support! It fell right on top of the bolt and lodged there!

Now I have a theory! This is what your Corvette really resembles! A broken Pachinko machine, where the ***** or tools never make it to the bottom!

 

wow, I'm glad I'm not as bad as you... thanks

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9/16 bendy ratcheting wrench is certainly sitting next to the OP's socket...

and my story is exactly the same as the one above, simply change 2 things - the lost tool, and the result.... at least you found it. I've been over my shop countless times trying to find that blasted thing

 

A colleague of mine had a funny conversation with his elderly Dad: "You know how annoying it is when you find yourself halfway up the stairs and you can't remember what you are going up for? Well I can do one better than that son - I found myself halfway and couldn't remember whether I was going up or down!"

 

Funny stuff. I really hope you find that socket.

Reminds me of when I'm dealing with a work issue in the parking lot of an Arby's. Really into it...plans rolled out in the back of my truck working through a construction issue. At some point I feel for my phone in my pocket...OH CRAP!!! NO PHONE!!! Geez...must have left it somewhere. In the seat? No. On the console? No. Freakin' A, if I left it in the stupid Arby's, there's no WAY I'm getting it back. I start jogging to the door and as I pull it open, I realize what happened...

I'm talking on the phone.

At least the contractor on the other end got a good laugh out of it.

 

This summer i was spreading a load of dirt in the yard and found a Craftsman 10mm combo wrench in the dirt.

Some body is missing one somewhere

 

That's as funny as AZMotorhead's missing part in hand!

 

Reminds me of walking out to "remind" a couple of employees about checking the fluids on the service vans each week when they wash them. I walked up and opened the hood on the Sprinter van, looked in, and there lying on the top of the valve cover was an air chisel!

Now, this van had been in for warranty work six months prior - one item was to R/R a battery tray which had rusted due to a leaking fitting above it. So my guess was the tech used the air chisel to break the spot welds on the tray.

I have had the same thing as the OP happen losing a socket or extension etc., but how do you lose something as big as an air chisel that is laying on top of the motor!!!

And of course, how did our drivers miss it for six months, when they were supposedly checking the fluids. That was an interesting discussion.

 

Loki is just havin' lots of FUN!

 

I have one of those yellow lab tool retrievers too. You just need to wipe them off once you tell her, "Give!" and she drops it.

But they don't always work right. Once I dropped a large flat washer and it rolled out from under the lift. When I finally needed it, she looked at me with a slight lump under her left lip. I gave her the command, "Give!", and she flipped a live mouse onto my foot.

 

What I hate is when I drop some small screw/washer/part and can't find it. Then a few months later I find said screw/washer/part and can't remember what it went to!!!

Oh, and I do the in my hand thing all the time and I'm only 48!