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Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
You put them in a safe place!
Ian
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Location: Rokeby, Victoria, Australia
Car type: '27 Chummy, '34 Special, '50 Traction Avant
If I lose something the best way of finding it is to start tidying up and the lost item miraculously appears, the trick to finding something is not to look for it. Good luck.
Cheers
Mark
Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 682 Threads: 33
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Location: Lot region FRANCE
Search the internet, order two more and just after you fit the new ones, the old ones will turn up.
Joined: Aug 2017 Posts: 1,667 Threads: 46
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Location: Auckland NZ
Car type: 36 Nippy, 31 RM, 38 Special, 24 Works Rep
At least you have put them somewhere safe and not lost them!!
Black Art Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2017 Posts: 772 Threads: 26
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Location: On a hill in Wiltshire
I always ask my son in law, who ( I don't know how he does it) finds whatever it is, just under my nose.
Seriously, though, I find that running through what I can remember of the day- usually in a quiet time about 2 in the morning - as in:
"What was I wearing? What did I do next? Who was on the phone to distract me? Where did I go next? ……."
Often supplies the missing items.
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Location: Melton Mowbray.
Pray to St Anthony of Padua.
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Mark's method works for me every time.
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Location: Bala North Wales
Car type: 1933 RP Standard Saloon
I have a pile of old hub caps which I use as 'bits' trays. When I dismantle anything, all the displaced parts including the fasteners are put in the hub cap. Just make sure you don't upset it!
My problem is tools. I put them down and then spend the next half an hour looking for that that spanner/ screwdriver that I had five minutes ago!