Sunday, January 08, 2017

As has been noted before, a small spring

under a little tension can somehow violate the rules of physics and vanish.

And, sometimes, reappear in "How the FUCK did it get there?" places.

This does not include the screw and spring(separate incidents) that rolled off the table and vanished.  As in "Move everything and go over the entire room with magnet and light and THEY'RE FREAKING GONE!" vanished, never to reappear.

5 comments:

Arthur said...

Buy a replacement, then you'll have two.

The replacement you ordered, and the original you'll find immediately after buying the new one.

Windy Wilson said...

Physicists are examining this phenomenon as strong evidence for teleportation.

Jerry The Geek said...

What is worse is when the recoil spring plug achieves escape velocity as soon as you try to disassemble your 1911 semi-auto pistol.

I've taken to carrying a lot of small parts when I go to matches ... because you know that's going to happen when you have travelled and paid expensive fees to attend a major pistol match.

B said...

Vacuum the room.

Or,as has been stated earlier...buy another. EITHER IS LIKELY TO MQKE THE FIRST SPRING BE FOUND.

ALSO: CHECK YOUR SHOES.

Firehand said...

There's a piece in one of the Gunsmith Kinks series, guy had a spring from a Luger disappear in his shop. Short time later, as part of general cleaning, he not only moved EVERYTHING out, when he swept he ran a magnet through the pile and then burned it; never found that spring.