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Just venting here. Putting together a very nice Rhodium Amboyna Father Sing pen last night. I drop the center band on the floor and go to pick it up. Well, that knocked off everything on to the floor. I found everything except the nib. 30 minutes searching and no nib. The floor isn't even that messy. You'd think that a Rhodium nib would be easy to see. I have to wait until tomorrow to finish the pen when my latest shipment from CSUSA comes.

Thank you for listening to my rant.
 
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Ever stand at the lathe and lay something down and within 5 minutes you can't find it and you haven't moved? Drives me nuts. I think in my case it's a manifestation of CRS syndrome [:(]
 
I'm always amazed when you drop something or somehow or another lauch it into the air and it lands in something or hits something that you couldn't hit or land in if you tried a hundred times......[:(!]
 
Chris, if it makes you feel any better, I had this BEAUTIFUL piece of Russian Olive Burl that I was recently turning. The barrels were basically down to size, and I just wanted to touch something up. Brought the skew up and BLAMO - lost a piece that represented about 1/4-1/3 of the blank (obviously bad glue joint). I watched the piece fly off, so "no problem, I'll just glue it back together" I think to myself. Threre's a pile of saw dust and shavings under/around the front of the lathe, but behind the lathe is relatively clean, and that's where this big chunk went. I start searching, but can't find it ANYWHERE. I tore my whole shop apart looking for it, and couldn't find it. I got so frustrated, I turned the barrel down to just the tubes. As I was taking the tube off the mandrel, I realized that somehow one of the bushings was stuck in the tube. I keep a set of transfer punches close to my lathe, so I looked down in them to find an appropraitely sized punch, and there, nestled between some punches, was the piece I had been searching for.

I hope your replacement comes soon! [:D]
 
My dad came over the other day and I was going to show him the tiny engraving on the side of a $6000 diamond. He picked up the tweezers and the eye loupe and the diamond was gone. We couldn't walk around for fear that we might crush it. It turned out to pop right into the glasses case in his shirt pocket! That was a bit scary. [:0]
 
Chris...there's this dude on the site...kinda unknown, but he goes by Penworks [:D] and he can help you with a missing fountain pen nib!

Bruce...I think you would be crazy just to pick up a $6000 diamond!
 
I had a similar thing happened to me. While removing the knob of my mandrel, it fell of and rolled away. I saw where it was heading and looked there...nothing. Looked further out to almost cover the entire half of my garage, moved the shelves...NONE. That was 3 or more months agoa nd to this date, I still haven't found it.

Maybe the shop Gremlin got it. [;)][}:)]
 
Not trying to knock the supplier, but you did SEE the nib when you opened the bag, right?
I have had parts missing from kits.
More so lately than a year or so ago.
 
Thanks everyone for feeling my pain. To answer all of your questions and comments:

Yes, Yes, Yes, A little better, It wasn't a fountain nib, Is a Rhodium nib on a Father Sing pen Magnetic?, I have pants with cuffs - but I don't turn in them, I can't swear to in in a court of law - but I believe it was there.
 
Chris, feel the pain! Of course that may also be a solution- take your shoes off and walk around barefoot, the part will stick in foot. Once you pull the nib out and the bleeding stops you will be in business.[:0]

Changed the blade on my Delta 14" band saw years ago and dropped one of the knobs that holds the cover on. Searched and searched but never found it. A few weeks ago my daughter's lab was out there with me and I hear her chewing on something harder than the wood scraps she usually steals. It's the knob, with a few teeth marks, and now she won't tell me where she found it. Just can't trust that dog! [:D]
 
I can relate to the CRS disease. Each year it seems to get worse. Just recently I was working in my chronically messy shop, and was looking for a tool...

I looked under the lathe, I looked over under, and around the lathe bench, I looked on the drill press and it's table, I looked on and around the tablesaw, on and around the bandsaw, all around the floor and on the benches... All the while muttering to myself..."Now, just where could it be? I just had that thing..."

I looked in all the same places again just in case, and finally in frustration I bent down to pick the belt sander off the floor to look under it, and put down the tool in my hand to do it... and it hit me.. I had been holding the darn tool the whole time...[:I]
 
Chris, you could be like me and step on the parts you drop before finding them. Of course by then they are pretty much useless... pens tubes, couplers, clips, you name it, I've probably ruined one. [;)]
 
If you have any cabinets with shelves look there, not just on the floor, you never know,
For certain it will be in the last place you look.
If you keep looking for it after you find it you aren't smart enough to turn pens anyway.[}:)]
 
Hey Bruce, did the guy that sold you the $6k diamond SAY not to stand on it? I think I would take it back[:D]
And how and what did you engrave on it? Any chance of a pic?
 
Home Depot sells a magnet that is about the size of a hockey puck on about a 40" stick. Of course what you lost must be magnetic. They sell for under $10.00. Just stick it in the saw dust or whatever and wait to hear the click. It saves me a lot of time and aggravation.
 
Originally posted by chitswood
<br />.....We keeps buckets full of sawdust in our garage so we use a large magnet to find any small metal screws and such.
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I keep an inexpensive Radio Shack metal detector in the shop. Picked it up at a garage sale for 5 bucks. Mostly use it under that "shade tree" where I do my auto repairs and drop critical nuts and bolts in the grass on occasion. It has found runaway parts in the shop a few times, too.

Unfortunately, to answer Chris' question, the nib is probably not magnetic. Most likely, it is gold plated brass.
 
Originally posted by btboone
<br />It turned out to pop right into the glasses case in his shirt pocket!
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Bruce, your dad was practicing that "trick" for a good month before he conned you into letting him "look at" that diamond!
 
Originally posted by underdog
<br />I can relate to the CRS disease. Each year it seems to get worse. Just recently I was working in my chronically messy shop, and was looking for a tool...

I looked under the lathe, I looked over under, and around the lathe bench, I looked on the drill press and it's table, I looked on and around the tablesaw, on and around the bandsaw, all around the floor and on the benches... All the while muttering to myself..."Now, just where could it be? I just had that thing..."

I looked in all the same places again just in case, and finally in frustration I bent down to pick the belt sander off the floor to look under it, and put down the tool in my hand to do it... and it hit me.. I had been holding the darn tool the whole time...[:I]
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Thanks for the laugh. I think that is a sign of getting older.
 
Originally posted by ctEaglesc
<br />If you have any cabinets with shelves look there, not just on the floor, you never know,
For certain it will be in the last place you look.
If you keep looking for it after you find it you aren't smart enough to turn pens anyway.[}:)]
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Thanks Eagle. I beat you to the punch line.
 
The only fool-proof way I know to find the thing is to order another one. No more than 10 minutes after you place the order, the darn thing will magically turn up!![:D][:D]

DAMHIK!![:(!]
 
I spent a looong time yesterday looking for the tube and casing I had in my hand getting ready to turn yesterday and never did find it until I took my pants off last night and emptied the pockets.[B)] I don't need to drop them to lose them.
 
I feel for you. I keep my shop so neat, that I'd have trouble finding a sledge hammer in it. Just ask Jim.[:D] That's happened to me too many times to mention. I use a snow shovel and a leaf blower to clean my shop.
Rob
 
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