How to get back every part the “Monster” has eaten…for $1500

I can't believe you would admit that! It reminds me of the time an old neighbor asked me to help him carry an old couch out of his house. When we pulled the cushions off we found someone's pocket change, a pasifier and crumbs...he said to his wife...how many years have we been looking for that nook? His wife could have shot him on the spot...she was so embarrassed.

Worse yet, I bought a car from a coworker...he wasn't a tidy guy, but when I returned much of what had found its way down behind the rear seat he was also embarrassed...his wallet which he had lost three years prior...a pair of ladies panties...obviously not his wifes (size was the dead giveaway). I also collected about thirty dollars in change which I pocketed. I only paid a couple hundred for the car so it was a nice rebate! Never learned who the bloomers belonged to, but the one who wore the huge drawers in the house divorced him. I sold the car a few weeks later after cleaning it up and made a tidy profit above the change I pocketed. 

Well Marc, as a Vegetarian, i couldnt possibly kill the carpet monster. The thought of cutting him into manageable pieces. Brrrrr, makes me shiver. Live and let live an all. Also i believe that carpet monsters in general are hermaphrodites (Being both genders simultaniously) So all you have succeded in doing is producing several more of the blighters ready to scarper to the nearest modellers abode. I will willingly beat the swine to a bloody and unrecognisable pulp, inorder to retrieve its stomach contents.

Hawkeye, My future ex-missus's boy works at a furniture shop and often has to go to collect furniture from properties. He calls sofas with stuff in 'Rattlers' and often makes £20-£30 ($40-$60) a week in 'Finds'. I on the other hand work on a bus as a driver, all i find down the seats is******in general. Find it once, your not so quick to search next time. LOL.

...Guy

Sooooooooooo I'm takeing a guses here but......... Wing(track)_nut are we spost'a reapeat the "find' method after every build that we loose somthing?

Carpet Monster Removal Kit

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Carpet Monster Removal Kit

How dose that get your missing parts back?  I mean it would be fun and all ()but no parts. 

Marc, I'm going to refute your theory that the carpet is the monster.

I know this because I have a laminate floor and the monster still manages to steal many of the parts I drop.

I do think it lives in the shadows under my desk though.

Karl

No, what you're referring to is its cousin the Linoleum Lizard!

Specifically the subspecies Vinylattractus Partdisappearus. This is a dreaded and unwanted house guest. It is usually accompanied by another criter..Dustbunnie Plentihuemungus.

All of which are most prolific breeders.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

No, what you're referring to is its cousin the Linoleum Lizard! Specifically the subspecies Vinylattractus Partdisappearus. This is a dreaded and unwanted house guest. It is usually accompanied by another criter..Dustbunnie Plentihuemungus. All of which are most prolific breeders.

Now I've heard it all!

So... Virginisys Pilecarpetour Nylonus has been installed.  Several parts dropped have been sitting high and proud on the top fibers ready to be picked and glued in place.

Let's have a moment of silence for the passing of my carpet monster... 

NOT! 

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

No, what you're referring to is its cousin the Linoleum Lizard! Specifically the subspecies Vinylattractus Partdisappearus. This is a dreaded and unwanted house guest. It is usually accompanied by another criter..Dustbunnie Plentihuemungus. All of which are most prolific breeders.

That explains alot. 

I thought I was doing the smart thing installing a laminate floor!

Foiled again.

Karl

or  you could just work on a hardwood floor

easier to clean too

The problem is not that the monster likes to eat our parts, but simply, as I have observed, it likes to play catch with itself.  Drop a piece and watch it bounce accross the room. So what you have to do is;

A-take up the rug and put down a solid floor, something without gaps or cracks.

B-cover everwhere that you do NOT step with double sided tape.

Sounds like alot of work, but not a single piece will ever bounce again. 

This thread is way cool btw. Am i the only one who when dropping a minute part on the carpet monster/ lino lizard, gets another piece of similar wieghted sprue and drop that to see where that one bounces too. Only to eventually find the part 8ft away. How the heck does a part, the weight of a fleas undercrackers, hit the floor then bounce 8-10ft away?

Also, im sure the carpet monster copys your tweezers and replaces them with a tweezerpult that looks exactly the same. Grrrr i hate him, but in a loving caring sort of way.

...Guy

Don't forget many Carpet Monsters/Lino Lizards have an accomplice.

My Lino Lizard has one who answers to the name of Willow...

She has already accounted for the gear doors from a Raiden, and nearly had the landing gear for my He111 away the other day.

Don't let looks deceive you, she is in league with Lucifer!

Karl

That is why I trained my cats to run like heck away from my modeling room. 

The 'piece weighing nothing' and bouncing 8 feet is one thing.  but I SWEAR my pieces will drop then bounce toward the most cuttered part of my room.   I clean out this one part of under my next every so often and I find so mcuh stuff I didnt even know I lost

You guys forgot the other freind of the carpet monstor the.......... Hardwoodfloorcrackalacukus!

And my carpet monster is trying to train my bunny to eat model parts! but thats why the door to the modeling cave is closed when he's out.

I got this photo of the rabit training in action sadly the carpet monster was absent from the secne but the Hardwoodfloorcrackalacukus was there training him to eat Cristmass ornamants with means only one thing...... He'll be training on my models parts soon!!!!!

Lol. This thread is awesome. I laughed when I got to the bottom and saw the Beagle and the bunny. As i've owned 5 Beagles when living with my parents and I currently own a bunny, (never both at the same time).

He has his own little area of the house, I gave up on trying to get him to not eat everything.

Josh

Bunnys are my favorat pet exept for when thay try to eat everything!

Hay has the Rugrat been mentioned a another Axis alli?

Well... as bad as all the 'monsters' are.  Must we not forget all of our pieces lost by the force of nature known as the 'mother/wife/girlfriend/whomever cleaning where they are not suposto' OR 'the vaccume'

smeagol the vile wrote:

'the vaccume'

I have nightmares about what would hapin if that thing got IN one of my madel boxs!!!! u see I keep all the kits I'm working on on the floor because I work on the coffy table in front of the TV most of the time.

well we can add the vacume to the list of evil.

HawkeyeHobbies wrote:

Carpet Monster Removal Kit

Great idea, Hawkeye! However here's one reason why I don't own a gun: If I ever bought one, the first thing I'd do is shoot myself in the foot!

Marc, Sorry, Grasshopper. You have achieved the ultimate modelling state of Zen. If you had chopsticks, im sure you could have plucked the piece from the air. You are the ultimate modeller.

...Guy