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In a thread a while back someone mentioned putting a towel on their lap to catch parts. I thought that was a really good idea, so have been using one, and it has been very effective. My current project is a Dragon Flakpanzer 1. I was working on the magic tracks (though I was not experiencing anything even close to magic with them) and I pick up the bag with the teeny parts, and it's empty. What the?? I only have maybe 3-4 inches of track built!
Yah, you know what happened Look down in my lap and see a pile of links. It is actually kind of funny now, I can only imagine the confused look on my face when I picked up that empty bag.
The towel caught almost all of them.
Don't know who to give credit to for the towel idea, but it sure saved me.
lol nice. I defeated the carpet monster by laying laminate flooring. The carpet monster still hungers through the flooring, but parts are really easy to find now.
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Ha! That's great. I put laminate flooring in my office also, but it's a lot more expensive than a towel! Nice save!
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I have a cloth about the size of a towel afixed to the front of my workbench. I keep forgetting to drape it over my lap, however. Usually I only remember after I drop a tiny piece of PE, which then ends up on the floor and gone forever. It is so hard to get in the habit of draping that cloth!
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Don Stauffer It is so hard to get in the habit of draping that cloth!
It is so hard to get in the habit of draping that cloth!
Agreed! I leave mine on my stool, and still sit down on it sometimes instead of picking it up.
Micro-Mark sells a "jeweler's apron" which works on the same principal but has a neck halter and tie-behind strings, and you tack the front edges to the workbench. Sounds inconvenient and expensive to me.
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“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
To quote Douglas Adams
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I started with an apron like that. I didn't tie the waist strings, just put the halter over my neck. The front edges were tacked to the bench. I don't know how many times I got up and forgot about the apron. The front ended up completely shredded! Got a sore neck too! That is when I decided that the apron shouldn't be fastened to me at all. Problem is, with this cloth hanging from the bench, I just sit down, put my legs under the bench, forget the cloth, and it ends up covering my knees instead of my lap :-(
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that was me and i got it from a friend. glad it's working for you.
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Funny you mention the towel because I have used one since earlier this year. My workbench is a leftover computer desk with a slide out keyboard drawer. I do have a keyboard on it because I occasionally use my computer on it for gaming. I put a towel on top of the keyboard and slide it out when I'm working with tiny parts and have yet to loose one to the floor. It does work thats for sure!
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I attached a thin strip of wood about an inch square and about 3-4 feet long just under the lip of my workbench. I then went to the hardware store where I bought a shop apron that had *** pockets for a convenient place to put my tools or brushes and a neck loop. Lastly, I went into the stationary section and I got 4 of the biggest paper clamps I get get ( you know the ones that have the little foldable handles that can fold out of the way when your done using them). I took the bottom edge of the apron, lined it up with the wood strip under the lip of my workbench and used the clamps to fasten the apron to the wood. I have not lost a piece in years doing this because it just falls right into my lap and all I have to do is lean back and find it in the apron- easy squeezy. When I'm done my session I dont take the clamps off I just take the loop of my neck roll up the apron and leave it on my chair or right on your work table. Another option is if your bench alllows it put a small hook above the bench and hang the loop on it. This works so well that every so often I have to take a small wisk broom to the apron to clean off all the "little bits" that fall off the table as I work. Hope that helps.
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