Actual footage of a 10mm socket disappearing

[Frank S]

Can you get those for low voltage as well?

I have a medium voltage one. And I think an ultra-high voltage for checking xmas tree lights but will have to look tomorrow for a low voltage

[old kodger]

Well, that will teach you not to use metric sockets. I never lost an "inch" socket.

No, nor I, especially if it's "inch" drive

[old kodger]

Whilst installing solar panels on a low frame, out in the paddock, the 3/16 wit socket came off of the short extension,tumbled down the panel 4-5 ft then dropped onto the grass (six inches tall). I used a small metal detector, couldn't find it, so i whipper-snipped an area 15 ft in diameter, down to dirt. never did find it, and it was only 60 years old.........damn.

[theeddies]

Unfortunately I'm not that clever. That one is an internet legend.

Of course this meme also extends to Amazon: 30-piece 10mm socket shop pack

Oh man I need one of those. I wish Craftsman would make one so I would always have a matched set. A guy on here (Just1GuyMetalworks) bought a bag them recently at a swap meet.

[theeddies]

Hate to say it, guys, but I saw it fall off and go under the motorcycle. But I have found, over the years, at least eight 10mm sockets. So I believe it CAN happen!

Bill

Hey Bill, I assure you there were no camera tricks, this was recorded as it happened. The full video is also on Youtube, taking the bike apart. I am not that good of an actor, lol. Watch the slow mo at the end, it never makes it past the carbs.

[Philip Davies]

C. 1964, I had a comic, which featured a sci-fi story, illustrated by Frank Bellamy. In it, the explorers had tools etc go missing every night. They set up a high speed camera, 1k frames per sec. next day, a single frame shows a scruffy Neanderthal like being, triumphantly flourishing a wrench. The medics inject our hero with something that speeds him up 1000 times and off he goes to negotiate with the natives!
I liked imagining that I could have faster reactions than everybody else. I might have been better at sport.
My safe box is a leather cup produced for farriers’ nails. Sadly I am often too silly to use it.
Every working day, I put down a tool and a few seconds later cannot see it on bench, floor, ceiling, wall. Yesterday took a half hour to locate stripping pliers dropped into vice jaws.

[malcdellow]

I hear you with the safe place.

[Floradawg]

At least I'm not the only one.

[elk-a-holic]

I always blame the cat. Then when I get really desperate I call on the wife whom usually saunters out to the shop and spots the item right off the bat. The cat likes her better than me so she puts it in an obvious to a females intuitions safe spot.

[old kodger]

I always blame the cat. Then when I get really desperate I call on the wife whom usually saunters out to the shop and spots the item right off the bat. The cat likes her better than me so she puts it in an obvious to a females intuitions safe spot.

I've tried that one, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.
What I do most often now is, if I lose a hammer, I go look for a tape measure, I almost invariably find the hammer. I think what happens is that the gremlin that hid the hammer to start with is fooled into thinking that I wanted the tape measure all along, and hid the wrong thing, hence the hammer turns up.