Tools that always go missing?

[LS6 Tommy]

Working fluid. It seems my beer is always empty...

Tommy

 

[reader2580]

I lose my tape measure(s), safety glasses, and hammer all the time. The hammer and tape measure I will set down and then can't find again five minute later. The safety glasses don't have a dedicated home so sometimes I set them down when done and then can't find them again.

I tend to lose many tools while working on a project. I will set down a wrench or socket or whatever and can't find it again five minutes later. I was cutting open boxes the other day and kept setting my utility knife in the same spot each time. One time I set it down elsewhere and it is gone now. I couldn't find it even though I had used it 60 seconds earlier.

 

[Empty Pockets]

When I am working at the bench, it's always rulers (tape or solid), and whatever else I am using. I set them down, walk to the other side of the bench, and I go blind. LOL

 

[guspech750]

Tools that go missing?

Well anything I touch really. LOLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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[d.mcfarland]

I always lose the pencil or pen during a project. Mechanically it's always the screws/bolts that I end up looking all over for.

 

[softailgarage]

 

[Schurkey]

^^^ Wow. Pie chart pretty-much nails it.


More specifically, I will be searching for any tool I happened to be holding when some "Helper" or "Charity Case" starts asking questions.

 

[Westozfixer]

Long straight snap on picks and snap on pocket screwdrivers.

 

[disston]

Anything I pick up.

 

[machyoung]

Whatever it is that the wife borrows. I typically find weeks later wherever she abandoned.

 

[mattygee]

Tape measures, safety glasses, flashlight.

 

[Rickster]

I have a bunch of tape measures and utility knives. I wind up leaving them all somewhere and every now & then I go on a round-up and get them all back in the toolbox... then the cycle starts again.

 

[gtae07]

Tape measure and cleco pliers...

 

[Dutch01]

10mm and 13mm spanners, seems I can only find flat screwdrivers when I need a philips and vice versa, welding hammer. Used to lose tape measures but not lately, why not

 

[2002maniac]

10mm socket or end wrench. My 10mm flex head gear wrench is the most recent victim.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I guess, I am more normal then I thought
10 mm. sockets
tape measures
and box knifes.

 

[dwysywd]

I guess, I am more normal then I thought

10 mm. sockets

tape measures

and box knifes.

Lmao, I was reading and making my list of EXACTLY these items. And
@softailgarage nailed it, I'm always looking looking looking for a specific tool I just had.

I was at Menards a few weeks ago to buy a new Stanley tape measure. They had 1 for $10 and 2 for $18. And I actually laughed that they had 2. I just bought my 1 and went about my day. Now I realize the folly in my decision!

 

[JAKE-THE-TOOL-MAN]

Whatever tool my wife decides to use...

 

[firworks]

I can never find my magnetic pickup tool. I actually have no idea where it is right now. Last time I found it it was mag-netted to the bottom of one of the drawers in my toolbox. I assume it'll show back up someday.

 

[rpcraft]

I'm sure its been said previously but 10MM anything has a habit of walking off my workbench, lol.

 

[Hal]

Tape measures, #2 Phillips, any kind of marking device, and one nobody else has mentioned, needle nose pliers.

 

[Seppala]

Soapstone
It's used for marking metal in a blacksmith or fabrication shop and its always missing. Heard a story years ago of a blacksmith who was so frustrated with missing soapstone that he bought a new box of it, dropped it so it would break into small bits, picked the box up, open it, and flung the contents in a 360 degree arc inside his shop. Problem solved.

 

[CafeTools]

10mm socket is probably the tool that goes missing the most, reason is? Its probably the most used tool people use.

 

[FullRaceMerc]

On jobsites with plumbers Channellocks go missing. Apparently all Channellocks look like theirs. Even with my color of paint on them. Sometimes I get them back with apologies. I've lost 2 outright in 35 years.


I personally lose chirpies (non-contact voltage testers). If I knew where or how I lose them they wouldn't be lost. I figure they are all hanging out somewhere together waiting for me to find them.

Herd of escaped chirpies.

 

[Lassen Forge]

Whatever you need right then. Doesn't matter if it's a stubby philips driver, your only 18mm socket, or your pocket VOM... when you need it, it will have crawled off into a corner somewhere, only to reappear in the middle of the workbench 3 seconds after you get back from the store from buying a new whatever.

 

[Throbbin Rods]

3/8 and 7/16 combination wrenches
#2 Philips
7/8 impact socket
Channel lock pliers
My long needle nose pliers
Tape measures. Two in the Yukon, 12' and 30'
Two 25 footers in the tool box
25 footer and 12 footer in the house.
Still never have a tape measure.
What makes it worse is that Karen has her own tools, and never loses track of ANYTHING! She tends to find what I have misplaced most of the time though.

 

[PhantomEB]

My keys, simple. Moms bugging me to rekey her house, I may do mine too so they all match. As well the padlocks on the gates. So much easier with it all matching.

Tools... I am getting so decluttered, I rarely even leave it to chance.

 

[snowman3]

I have approximately 30 utility knives.
I put one in every room of the house, several in the shop, lots of extras in the toolboxes, carry one in my pocket all day, etc. Neither my wife nor I can EVER find one when we have an Amazon package to open.

Thats because you have 30 utility knives and no incentive to keep track of them. I have the same problem.

Was talking to a friend of mine who was always misplacing his pocket knives. Until he bought $100+ Benchmade. With some skin in the game, he watches it like a hawk and never loses it. LOL.

So what I've learned is having a lot knives, tape measures, scissors, etc lulls us into false sense of security.

 

[thool]

Tape measure, pencil

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[48RON54]

any wrench or socket that is either 1/2", 10mm or 13mm. My most commonly used items so it is no surprise to me that they vanish.

 

[billspit]

10mm sockets and wrenches.

Wire cutters.

Needle nose pliers.

 

[Dr Stan]

Moma taught me there is a place for everything and everything belongs in a place. Nuff said.

 

[roblouvasz]

I have 3 Ryobi 18v drills I keep on my main bench along with the 18v flashlight. I swear, every time I need to use any of them, none of them has a battery!

 

[kmoon]

3/16 Allen sockets and L allens


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[kaymccampbell]

It's funny, in the days of v-8's and powerglides, 9/16, wrenches and sockets. Now with the metric sboxes it's 10 and 13mm Sockets.

 

[srr]

I put all my tools away after a big job on a 2004 CRV and noticed everything, even the 10 MM sockets and wrenches were present... Thought I was in a Twilight Zone episode for a moment.

 

[southalabama]

My mom tried to teach me. I apparently didn't learn.

I try to make up for it by having tape measures everywhere and extra 1/2" and 10 mm wrenches and sockets.

 

[Corndoggeh]

Me

 

[Bluedodge]

9/16" wrenches and flashlights.

 

[RWorth]

I have 3 boys, and I'm old and Senile, everything goes missing.