Where do disappearing tools go?

[djjsr]

One of my oil filter wrenches has vanished. It's normally in a drawer with other sizes of filter wrenches.

I don't think it was stolen because the only person that works in my shop is me.

Maybe I subconsciously hid it just to drive myself crazy looking for it.

I suspect that some tools run off to a place in another dimension of time or space. Anybody know where it is?

 

[Brentocool]

Probably hanging off the filter on your Vehical still? You wouldnt believe the tools I find attached or in the engine compartments. found a nice Snap-On 1/4" extension just yesterday!!

 

[welder4956]

I suppose some may run off to another home, to be adopted by someone else who keeps them warm and clean. Still others may be abducted and should have their face printed on milk cartons and be listed on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Tools website.

However, most often I find my missing tools in my significant other's sewing room, mainly hammers, screwdrivers and pliers. To the untrained eye, a filter wrench may appear to be a great way to open a stuck peanut butter jar lid.

 

[kythri]

I'd love to know where some things go. I lost a guide rod and recoil spring to my Beretta when it slipped and went flying across my shop. I found the spring, but bought a new guide rod as I have yet to find the guide rod - and after 3 years and multiple reorganizations of that section of the shop, don't believe I ever will.

The physics of dropped objects and their trajectories is something worthy of study, given how you can drop something and find it 30 feet away, behind you (and a closed door).

 

[ambenz]

Check the dogs house if your wife hasn't made your stay their in a while!
Those pups like to grab and go, the rubber handle makes for a great chew toy!

Check his abode...if he will let you!!!!!

 

[930dreamer]

Craigslist.

 

[85camaro]

I had some service work done some years ago at the dealership and when I got home I popped the hood and found a ratchet and extension with a socket on it. Can you believe the tech at the dealership was using Craftsman? LOL.

Maybe that's what he thought of my car

 

[NASTYZEN]

I think they go and become the stuff that they call rings around the planet Saturn......To float it weightlessness forever............
I lost my 1 inch micrometer last week. I think it may of fallen in the garbage or metal recycling bin........
Already took the garbage to the street and also took the scrap to the wreckers.
Baught 2 in case I loose one again......
Only other explanation would be one of my customers did it, I really don't want to go there...

 

[JSBriggs]

Same place the missing socks go.

-Jeff

 

[May Pop]

You need to watch the episode of Eerie Indiana-I beleive it was [The lost zone]. I saw it recently and it shows what happens to our missplaced items.
Ron

 

[TreePointer]

I'll check for your tools at my brothers house. That's where mine often magically appear.

 

[jjjrmx5]

Same place the missing socks go.

-Jeff

Jeff, you read my mind.

I got two comments in and went to myself, "Hey wtf about the socks in my washer and dryer...!!!!!!!!!!!! Same damn place I bet."

LOLOLOLOLOLOL.

 

[countryroad82]

I'll check for your tools at my brothers house. That's where mine often magically appear.

^^^^^^^ This. My brother no longer has access to my sh$%

 

[davesnothere]

Its in heaven. All tools that go, go to heaven.

 

[Gary S]

Distractions.

Are you 100% sure you didn't get distracted the last time you used it, and it stayed on the filter? If so, somebody already found it on the road and thanks you.

The saddle disappeared off my floor jack a couple of years ago after I jacked up one of my pickups. I'm guessing the rubber top saddle stuck to the shock rod when I let the truck down, and it ended up in somebody else's toolbox somewhere down the road.

 

[jethro29]

i think they go to the same place that the socks in the washer go.lol.it will appear right after you buy a new one.

 

[AZ_Catskinner]

Around the house mine tend to show up in the "estrogen cave", where horrible things like scrapbooking take place - usually it's hammers, screwdrivers and the like but occasionally something else sneaks in there (If anyone has any clue WTF she needed a 1-5/8" combo wrench for, feel free to weigh in).

I don't have much problem at work because I keep a pretty good eye on things.

 

[popeye31]

I have a few tools that just seem to appear and disapear at will. meaning I will find them in the place I first looked. like air chucks, blowers, ratchets, flat head screwdrivers,etc.Im realy wondering if they just wind up in the blind spots. and what I mean is if you put two dots on a piece of paper about an inch apart then hold the paper in your hand and move it closer to your face till one of the dots dissaper. thats the blind spot. any one else get that too.

 

[osborn.ozzy]

Ive lost a ratchet on the inside of a fender
and a few oil filter cups

 

[lampare]

Around the house mine tend to show up in the "estrogen cave", where horrible things like scrapbooking take place - usually it's hammers, screwdrivers and the like but occasionally something else sneaks in there (If anyone has any clue WTF she needed a 1-5/8" combo wrench for, feel free to weigh in).

I don't have much problem at work because I keep a pretty good eye on things.

I caught my wife using a wrench for a hammer she wont go in the shed because of mice.

 

[Orangestang]

I ask my boys that same question and I get a Bill Cosby type answer "I don't know"

 

[ajchien]

I've been wondering the same thing. Now how the heck did I lose a magnetic pick up tool?!

 

[quick86]

When my toolbox and tools were left at home with my parents I found most of my snap on screw drivers and other sockets went missing because of my brothers and parents borrowing them and not putting them back. And when id go over everything was piled up in the top drawer.

I love helping and loaning tools.....as long as tools are put back.

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[BigAl62]

I don't believe it was left on the oil filter, you use it to remove the filter, not install. If it was a screwdriver at my house, I'd be blaming my cat Pixie (my avatar). She is a screwdriver thief! (And socks too!)

 

[djjsr]

BigAl - Please ask your cat about it. We're in the same state and maybe she wandered down here. Or maybe she's heard the word on the street.

 

[richfinn]

I work as a roadside assistance tech and I find all sorts of stuff under the hoods of cars I attend, snappy instinct screwdriver in the pollen filter housing, 13mm mac knucklesaver on a battery tray, cheapo wrench left on suspension bolt (presumably wedged there when they were gunned up with an impact), various sockets on top of subframes, vice grips locked on a track rod, magnetic LED lamp stuck under inside of hood (lucky my charger fits it)

 

[Alchymist]

1" drive sockets make great weights when gluing crafts..... ask me how I know.....

 

[autopts]

I lose razor blades like crazy. Its a spiracle maget that flies over the store in the middle of the night taking them thru the cracks and up to the ship.

 

[e30bradley]

Probably hanging off the filter on your Vehical still? You wouldnt believe the tools I find attached or in the engine compartments. found a nice Snap-On 1/4" extension just yesterday!!

months ago I changed the oil in my mom's Sienna but couldn't change the filter because I didn't have the special tool..
,http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015PK3AG/?tag=atomicindus08-20,
incredibly annoyed at the design I bought the tool off amazon and changed her oil and filter again as soon as the tool came in (her filter had 11k+ miles on it). About a week latter I did an atf flush an found my filter tool still stuck to the housing. I'm so glad it didn't fall off!

 

[illmatyk]

I'd like to know where my SO 32oz ballpeen hammer, channel locks, pliers, and brake line locks are at!

 

[Old Donn]

I suspect that some tools run off to a place in another dimension of time or space. Anybody know where it is?

If you figure it out DJ, see if my 15 and 16mm C-man reversible combos are laying around.

 

[Caleb T]

Hmm, I wonder the same thing... I have found a couple of tools at school that were from YEARS ago. Apparently somebody lost their 10mm craftsman wrench in the front bumper of a school car.. I found it along with a pen when I lost a nut in the same spot. I think some times they bury themselfs under piles of junk...

 

[djjsr]

Gotcha Donn. I'm making a list of all the missing tools posted. I want to meet with an astrophysicist over at the university. He does research on black holes and I want to see if he's ever seen any tools floating around out there.

My theory is that the magnetic field created by fluorescent lights combined with vapors from used motor oil and beer create the perfect environment for certain specific metal alloys to be attracted by a full moon. Once they're out of the earth's gravitational field, they get sucked into the black hole.

I could be wrong.

 

[hdossett]

Was re-roofing my house in FL about 15 years ago and could not find my utility knife so I drove about three miles to HD and bought a new one. Felt something in my hip pocket as I was climbing the latter to the roof. You guessed it, my lost utility knife!

I just finished building a 12x16 shed. Missing in action is a 3 pound mini sledge and a 24" level. I know they did not pull a Jimmy Hoffa because I have them in photos of the build after the concrete was finished. And I burned all the scrap and no sign of metal objects! May they will show up one day, maybe not!

H

 

[Squankum]

I rarely lose tools, but these are my memorable doozies:

I had a metallic clinking noise from my RF suspension when I lived in a very potholed rustbelt city in college in the 80's. A few years later, I went to bleed my brakes, and that's when I found my little 7mm wrench hanging on by its box end, kept on by the bleeder cap.

I lost my 3/8" 10mm socket earlier this year. I didn't remember dropping it into the engine bay or any such incident that day. Not having it refill its spot at the end of the night made no sense at all. I was completely baffled. I solved this riddle by reluctantly going to Sears and buying a new one.

A week later I found it, hiding on the back side of my magnetic parts dish.

 

[eborcim]

Trolls take them along with left socks...

 

[ihredo4]

I would check the exhaust pipe in my old car but it is in China somewhere. I dropped my 14mm Poloshed Craftsman while doing a head gasket in that car. How the wrench flipped through the air wrnt thru the carb and manifold then as quick as can be go straight down that exhaust pipe and not make a sound I have no idea. I all but took that damned car apart to find that wrench. It took me a couple years but it fell out when I had to replace the muffler. And you want to see a beautiful colored wrench. Heat treated no less. Now I am afraid to use it. lol

 

[ptschram]

The same place the TV remote went last week.

I try so hard to consider my tools as expendable and replaceable but it still pisses me off when I lose one and have to buy a replacement from the tool truck just to find the lost one the next day. Fortunately, it usually only happens to the high use tools.

 

[kythri]

I almost lost the yoke for my jack a few months back.

Had the front end of my Explorer up on stands so I could pull the wheels and change the plugs. Put everything back together, lowered the driver's side, lowered the passenger side, and put the jack away.

Took it for a test drive, heard a "clang clang clang" when taking a corner.

Turned around and found the round metal yoke on the side of the road. Turns out the red rubber HF pad got caught in the lower control arm/A-arm when I dropped the front end, and held on to the yoke, which finally fell loose about a mile from the house.

Glad I heard it and found it, otherwise I would have been tearing my shop apart a couple weeks later when I went to use the jack again.

 

[jeffmoss26]

I really wish I knew. I've lost so many knives over the years...whoever found them is quite lucky!