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Title: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 14 September 2014, 19:17:26
No prizes, but obviously a grub screw down the inlet manifold wins :D

Today I managed to drop the screw from the bottom of the instrument cluster down into the hinge of the adjustable steering column ::)

Only took an hour to liberate the little bastid >:(
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: Toledodude1973 on 14 September 2014, 19:47:57
Normally happens to me after a repair has been done just about to celebrate a job well done >:(
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 14 September 2014, 20:01:57
Cap from the top of my DTI into the plug hole on No. 1 cylinder of a freshly built engine made me say "bother" a few times. Fortunately a "magnet on a stick" came to the rescue. :-[
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 14 September 2014, 20:04:56
Normally happens to me after a repair has been done just about to celebrate a job well done >:(
Ain't that the truth... ::)
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 September 2014, 20:35:52
Gixer, gravel, my inlets. 'nuf said :P

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 14 September 2014, 20:37:18
No prizes, but obviously a grub screw down the inlet manifold wins :D

Today I managed to drop the screw from the bottom of the instrument cluster down into the hinge of the adjustable steering column ::)

Only took an hour to liberate the little bastid >:(

I would have called it a spare part.....and left it be  ;D
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: The Sheriff on 14 September 2014, 20:56:53
I dropped one in church once. It didn't go down well.
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Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 14 September 2014, 20:57:04
Wishbone bolt into the subframe.  :-[  ::)  ;D
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: tidla on 14 September 2014, 21:16:21
Washer from a peugeot 405 diesel manifold. Went up in the air and somewhere.

Found out where once i fitted the timing belt and turned the engine over by hand to check the timing..
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: TheBoy on 14 September 2014, 21:18:42
I dropped one in church once. It didn't go down well.
In my (limited) experience, all the old dears let go every time they stand to sing, so why should you get in trouble
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 14 September 2014, 21:21:43
No prizes, but obviously a grub screw down the inlet manifold wins :D

Today I managed to drop the screw from the bottom of the instrument cluster down into the hinge of the adjustable steering column ::)

Only took an hour to liberate the little bastid >:(

I would have called it a spare part.....and left it be  ;D
Right upto the point where it screws itself into the steering joint, locking it solid ::)
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 14 September 2014, 21:47:55
I dropped one in church once. It didn't go down well.
In my (limited) experience, all the old dears let go every time they stand to sing, so why should you get in trouble

Guessing most of the old dears don't have a Naga Chicken and half a dozen pints of real ale of a Saturday night. ::)
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: chrisgixer on 14 September 2014, 22:25:40
Ignition key of a zx6 down the inside of the fairing. Before the days of magnets on sticks. Took ALL the plastics off, eventually found on top of the head/inlets. 

No, I don't know either. :-\


Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: plym ian on 15 September 2014, 07:37:07
8mm socket into pot 1. Lucky I had a magnet on a stick the greatest tool ever invented :y

Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: zirk on 17 September 2014, 14:51:12
Dropped £200 worth of 20's that fell out of the hole when I pulled the Courtesy Light unit of a BMW to change the bulb, most of it fell on my lap, the rest fell on the footwells, real pita to pick up.  :)

Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: omegod on 17 September 2014, 15:08:33
Dropped £200 worth of 20's that fell out of the hole when I pulled the Courtesy Light unit of a BMW to change the bulb, most of it fell on my lap, the rest fell on the footwells, real pita to pick up.  :)

You must have been distraught  ;D
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: Webby the Bear on 17 September 2014, 17:13:23
Dropped £200 worth of 20's that fell out of the hole when I pulled the Courtesy Light unit of a BMW to change the bulb, most of it fell on my lap, the rest fell on the footwells, real pita to pick up.  :)

 :o :o :o :o
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 17 September 2014, 17:14:20
Dropped £200 worth of 20's that fell out of the hole when I pulled the Courtesy Light unit of a BMW to change the bulb, most of it fell on my lap, the rest fell on the footwells, real pita to pick up.  :)

 :o :o :o :o
Welcome to Essex ;D
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: Webby the Bear on 17 September 2014, 17:17:51
Dropped £200 worth of 20's that fell out of the hole when I pulled the Courtesy Light unit of a BMW to change the bulb, most of it fell on my lap, the rest fell on the footwells, real pita to pick up.  :)

 :o :o :o :o
Welcome to Essex ;D

lol I got my mums car from Essex for her. no rolled up notes in the light clusters.... not even a bag of coke  >:(
Title: Re: Where's the worst place you have dropped summat...
Post by: 05omegav6 on 17 September 2014, 17:19:26
Dropped £200 worth of 20's that fell out of the hole when I pulled the Courtesy Light unit of a BMW to change the bulb, most of it fell on my lap, the rest fell on the footwells, real pita to pick up.  :)

 :o :o :o :o
Welcome to Essex ;D

lol I got my mums car from Essex for her. no rolled up notes in the light clusters.... not even a bag of coke  >:(
In no way, shape or form is this a bad thing :y