I have the perfect filing system! a part is either in the shop, its in the lower garage, or its in the tin building in the back yard, if its still here....

But a couple months ago I did find a part on the shelf in the closet in the spare bedroom. I have no idea how that got there, or how long its been there. We have lived here 21 years. I guess maybe I thought it was "safe" there. I was right, it was nearly perfect. SHhhh! Don't tell my wife.... LOL!

i recently started stashing parts i have accumulated for my humpback panel truck in the unused bedroom upstairs.
when i run across them that is.
at least that room is smaller than the garage and shop, so it will be easier to find what i need. won't it ?

I invented sending egg-salad sandwiches into the future for myself to find.

When I bought my Blue Hornet in 2009.... it's like it was fit to be. Because I'd been collecting parts for my Yellow Hornet, I wound up with many, many duplicate parts. So when I bought the car, virtually every plastic part on it that was broken, I already had! NOS tail lights, a couple of mint grilles, a full set of Magnum 500s, an AM/FM radio, another set of chrome sport mirrors.

Or the Carter WCD carb I bought for my Gremlin way back in 2008, and then again in 2013 (since I forgot I bought the first one) and then again in 2016 only to find the original one still packed away and sealed up. But somehow in the interim 8 years, I'd lost that first carb and forgotten all about it.

It's like now my laser-guided temperature gun is missing. I bet if I ignore it long enough, I'll find it in the spring when I have no need for it.

It’s never ending, losing then eventually finding stuff. I have a rechargeable light I wear on my head, been lost 3 months. When you have five vehicles restoring with parts cars you misplace stuff. Every time I go to the shop I spend 20% of the day looking for tools, parts, papers, you name it. Then I find a lot I wasn’t looking for. I never was one for being organized.

Buying a new one is the fastest way to find the missing one is how I prefer to do it. Lost a balancer bolt so I bought a new ARP one and then the one I was looking for resurfaced just like that.

"I have a rechargeable light I wear on my head, been lost 3 months."



did you look on your head ? i find my glasses on my head quite frequently when i loose them.

As I started to get older I began to put related components in sperate plastic totes. I also have three different toolboxes one for each operation, one for diag and electrical, one for drivetrain and engine, and one for suspension and brakes. I'm a flat-rate mechanic at work so my OCD for order follows me home. I still lose small parts I know I bought for future projects that I ended up using for customer transmissions "I know I bought a spare set of 308 bearings" Oh yeah I used them for the last rebuild

Gus

I have 4 flaring kits because I will put one away so good I can't find it again until I buy another. My original one disappeared for 2 years. Found it in my shop on a shelf behind a couple boxes of camshafts.

The best way to lose parts is to put them safely away where you know you will be able to find them. LOL

I am currently looking for a manila folder with a couple of original Scat Pack bumper stickers and a blank Dodge window sticker from 70, 71, or 72. The folder vaporized or so it seems

I can't find a small block 727 I picked up a few years ago. Drives me crazy, how do you misplace something that big? I've come to believe that maybe I sold it or gave it away, but I don't remember doing it.