as you're trying to fix a sticky pusher, and something flies past your left cheek into the room.

You stand up and walk slowly backward out of the room.

You then get the Dyson stick vac from the garage, check it's not too full of crud and then vac the floor of the room, attach a crevice nozzle and do all of the edges around the desk.

Then you take a clean white cloth, lay it on your garage bench, empty the canister onto it and start searching for things.

Thankfully I found the pusher button, back to work.

 

God, I hate it when stuff like this has happened to me.

Mine are mostly polishing fountain pen nibs on my electric polishing wheel. I always felt like such an idiot because I wasn’t using proper precautions in handling the piece and my shop area was always a mess, so finding a flung part was particularly punishment.

 

You need a bigger challenge in the dog hair department.

 

Oh man, you are very lucky.

 

Lucky that you found it! I tend to lose springbars fairly often, and I end up finding them randomly on the carpet

 

Well done, Jim. You must have done something good recently to deserve that good karma.

 

Love to see a Dyson full of crud

 

Here you go.

A Dyson tower fan after five years (young'n just pulled his apart).

 

Thankfully it flew past your ear and not into your eye...or even worse...up your nose......coz then you would be sifting through a different type of crud...

 

This also tells you to do this fully clothed and NOT naked. Cover as many holes in the human body as possible

 

Fully clothed your running the lint gauntlet wearing clothes whilst servicing watches I instruct all my watchmakers ............

 

Note to self: Never let Standy's watchmakers near my watches.

 

It’s like in FRIENDS, when Joey’s tailor takes certain liberties when he reaches the crotch area and Joey thinks that is how you measure up pants. @STANDY will be like “Naked... c’mon guys that IS how watchmakers work”

 

I spent a good two hours late one night searching my carpet for a rhinestone about 1/32" across . Found it finally.

 

that is why I never bought a Dyson or a Vc without bag. Each time the bag is full I empty it and do the magnet thing. I saved quite a few parts with it.

 

I've actually taken pants, shoes and socks without moving far from bench to check folds for newly flight qualified parts. So far parts have always been found sooner or later on floor but I fear transporting them and losing them where I never have a chance to find them. My friend is a hard drive magnet to sweep the floor with. I find a lot of cut off stem ends that way My other friend is my 450 lumen bicycle light to blaze the carpet and hopefully find the part by shining at any off angle possible to reflect off the lost part.

 

What... you mean like this? Good luck finding a pusher tube in what fell out of these two.

 

I think I'll run the lint gauntlet thank you, your watchmaker scares me, even before he's started on the watch.

 

Your private life with your watchmaker is none of our business
My ultimate weapon for parts on the floor