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44pinshooter

......................this too long, when you dump a divided parts drawer with scope mounting screws, 6X48, 6X40 and 8X40, Weaver oval and fillister head and just pick them up off the floor and put them in the correct bin slot.

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  • Horse Plains Drifter

    Yep, amazing how one can tell such things.

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  • Mobuck

    I keep probably 30-40# of various sized bolts on a wooden shelf for those quick repair jobs. Originally, those bolts were in small bins but after years of kids/grandkids using the 'root and paw' method of searching for certain sizes, I gave up and just leave the bolts/nuts in the bags as they come from the farm store. If I send Grandson to find a bolt, he's gone an interminable time and comes back empty handed so I take him back, make a quick visual scan, and pick out the correct bolt.

    He just rolls eyes and walks away. Even with a tape measure and sample nut, he fails to find the right bolt. Guess it's not an inheritable skill.

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  • chiefr

    A good set of reading glasses is you friend.

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  • Okie

    Speaking of screws, nuts, bolts:

    I carried a left handed bolt that appeared to be a 1/4-20 size in my pocket for several years and when I got a new young grasshopper helper that was the gullable type and before they got to know me good I would get the timing just right and right outside the nut bolts and parts room I would tell him to hurry and get me couple of flat washers, a lock washer and a nut for the bolt and do it fast because I need it right now and make sure the nut threads onto the bolt easily and hurry. (some of these guys were also newbies, young mechanics in training)

    I could see him inside rushing and trying different nuts and I would holler to hurry, I need it now.

    I carried a left handed matching nut in my other pocket and I would go inside while the grasshopper followed and reach into a drawer and thread the left hand nut onto the bolt while they were watching.

    Most of the common sense grasshoppers became good helpers and paid attention after they followed me around for awhile.

    Common sense grasshoppers and the minority now days.

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  • Mr. Perfect

    Yep. You get to know your demons.

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  • Brookwood

    247 toothpicks.....247.......toothpicks 😮



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