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I was replacing a surface-mount capacitor on a laptop motherboard in my shop and my tweezers slipped, sending the tiny part flying into the void of my carpet.
After spending 45 minutes on my hands and knees with a magnet and a flashlight, I finally found it stuck to the leg of my workbench, but has anyone else had a simple repair turn into a scavenger hunt like that?
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hugowells6mo ago
Oh man, I once spent an hour looking for a spring that shot across the room.
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viola1716mo ago
That's the worst. Those tiny springs are like ninjas, man. I've found them stuck to the side of a trash can a week later. Once had one land perfectly inside an empty mug across the workshop. Took me forever to hear it rattle when I finally picked the cup up.
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