The gremlins have struck again.....

[10KPete]

Pete,

It's my prediction that you're going find it in the last place you look! 

Jim

Give the man a ciiigggaaarrrrr!!!

It occurred to me in the middle of the night that I hadn't opened all the drawers in the big roll-away with all the mechanics tools......

I must be going south 'cause there it was. In its box. Nicely placed.

I guess I was using it last to fit and assemble the first eccentric pair then when that was done put all the tools I was using for that task away. In the same place......   

At least the shop elves didn't get it. Buggers!

Pete

[Steamer5]

Hi Pete,
 I use to drive the kids nuts, revenge is sweet, when they couldn't find stuff by telling them, look in the last place YOU put it! As they got older they wised up...ah well!

Thank god Chris gnomes didn't get it! I think I my have found away of keeping them at bay.....as they seem to like chocolate & mint cookies, & my wife made pistachio & cardamon I haven't seen them....not holding out much hope for a permanent fix, besides they didn't leave the shinny bit they nicked a couple of weeks ago!

Cheers Kerrin 

[crueby]

Hi Pete,
 I use to drive the kids nuts, revenge is sweet, when they couldn't find stuff by telling them, look in the last place YOU put it! As they got older they wised up...ah well!

Thank god Chris gnomes didn't get it! I think I my have found away of keeping them at bay.....as they seem to like chocolate & mint cookies, & my wife made pistachio & cardamon I haven't seen them....not holding out much hope for a permanent fix, besides they didn't leave the shinny bit they nicked a couple of weeks ago!

Cheers Kerrin

Your gnomes sent my elves that shiny bit, I saw them parading it around the shop...   

No permanent solution, just keep making them cookies once in a while.

[Steamer5]

Chris,
    I was wondering if these guys might work to keep them gnomes or elves away......

 

Cheers Kerrin

[crueby]

I don't think that you can keep them away, just get them on your side! Enough cookies and they make parts for you rather than steal them. They appear to like those minnion cakes, the one on the lower left is already gone!

[10KPete]

Well, it seems the solution has been right in front of my eyes here all along... Cookies!! You guys keep on
about the cookies... We haven't been baking cookies recently, at least not much since Christmas.

Gotta go bake up a bunch of cookies before the little jokers get really upset and start moving more stuff around.....

Cookies....cookies   

Pete

[crueby]

Well, it seems the solution has been right in front of my eyes here all along... Cookies!! You guys keep on
about the cookies... We haven't been baking cookies recently, at least not much since Christmas.

Gotta go bake up a bunch of cookies before the little jokers get really upset and start moving more stuff around.....

Cookies....cookies   

Pete

Make enough for yourself too, everyone wins!      

[10KPete]

But of course!!

Pete

[sshire]

My most "gremlin-hidden" tool is the ½" mike.
I was talking with my son on the phone and describing the 30 minute ½" mike search. A few days later, this arrived in the mail.

[mklotz]

What, no quick-draw, mini-mike holster made of fine Corinthian leather?

Out here in the land of fruits and nuts, the machinists have their ears pierced and wear a pair of them as ear whorls.

Well, admittedly that's a bit of exaggeration but I have seen Harley-hoodlums wearing ball bearings as whorls.

[Tennessee Whiskey]

What a great idea Marv, my 1/2' mic had a hole drilled in the frame (bought used) , perhaps I'll open up the old earring hole (yeah own 3 Harleys) I would want a platinum quick detach though

Cletus

No emoties in respect of Marv

[mklotz]

Half inch micrometers have become passe; we all have one.  So, who will be the first to build a quarter inch mike?

Long ago, probably in a magazine like Popular Mechanics, I remember seeing an article about an instrument machinist who had made himself a tie clip (remember those?) that featured a functioning eighth inch mike.  Quite an advertisement for his skills.  That would be small enough to wear through a pierced septum.

[Dave Sohlstrom]

I have a shop floor that has holes in it that are portals to a different dimension. These holes are not big enough for me to fall through but just about any thing else that I drop is instantly transported never to be seen again.
To this day I have not seen the 1/4" ER11 collet that went through several years ago.

I will not even talk about the cloaking effect that is present on all work benches in my shop that can hide any object set on the bench.

Dave

[crueby]

I have a shop floor that has holes in it that are portals to a different dimension. These holes are not big enough for me to fall through but just about any thing else that I drop is instantly transported never to be seen again.
To this day I have not seen the 1/4" ER11 collet that went through several years ago.

I will not even talk about the cloaking effect that is present on all work benches in my shop that can hide any object set on the bench.

Dave

Very bad infestation of tunneling shop gnomes, a nasty variety... Do you hear their machinery running late at night?   

[10KPete]

Long ago I determined that there was a species of Shop Gnome much more advanced than the others. They do not require tools for tunneling or key for locks or other such mundane accoutrements. These Gnomes are able to simply pass through solids very like ghosts, however unlike ghosts they are able to return to a very solid presence once they have transited the wall, floor or whatever. But they have a nasty, to them, limitation to this ethereal ability: they are unable to move other objects through walls when they make the transit!

This is why we find so many of their little treasures, those shiny bits they borrow from us, at the edges of the floor near the walls. They still, in spite of their advanced ability to pass through solids, have not learned that the bits can't also make the journey.

So they hit the wall running and the bit they are carrying is ripped from their little paws and clatters to the floor.

Lord help us if they ever develop the ability to carry those bits through the walls!!!

Pete