Once in a while I get lucky.

[Gliderjohn]

Yesterday I took the T-3 out for about a 24 mile ride, the first one in about a month. This morning I was in the shop for a bit where the T-3 is garaged and just happened to notice something out of place and shiny below the starter. When I looked closer it was my 17mm Craftsman socket, probably from when I had taken the starter motor out when replacing the solenoid. It had wedged itself tight enough between the starter motor and the frame that I had to use a hammer and punch to get it out.
GliderJohn

[Ncdan]

Yesterday I took the T-3 out for about a 24 mile ride, the first one in about a month. This morning I was in the shop for a bit where the T-3 is garaged and just happened to notice something out of place and shiny below the starter. When I looked closer it was my 17mm Craftsman socket, probably from when I had taken the starter motor out when replacing the solenoid. It had wedged itself tight enough between the starter motor and the frame that I had to use a hammer and punch to get it out.
GliderJohn

I like your thread title John😂😂😂👍

[Perazzimx14]

I'm hoping to get lucky later today as well.  If that doesn't pan out finding the t-nut off my windscreen I dropped in the dash area last week will be good enough

[JJ]

Years ago, I worked for a Sales Manager who often said to me: 

"I'd rather be lucky than good any day!!"  

[cloudbase]

Years ago, I worked for a Sales Manager who often said to me: 

"I'd rather be lucky than good any day!!"  

Good for a single event, bad as a long-term strategy.

[JJ]

Good for a single event, bad as a long-term strategy.

Agreed...

[larrys]

If it was a 10MM socket you would never have found it.
Larry

[DougG]

Hi John,                                                                                              2-24-21

Are you sure it was yours?  I've been looking for mine for about a week now...

Be well, stay well,
DougG

[pehayes]

55 years ago, as a teen, I worked in a foreign car general repair shop.  I had somehow lost a rather favorite 13mm hand wrench.  One day with a regular customer on the lift I reached into the frame just to rest a moment in the heat.  Felt something move.  My wrench! Kind of wedged between wires and brake tube lines.  Had been resting there comfortably since the previous service episode.  No lie.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

[delrod]

Years ago my employer bought a well used Link Belt excavator. After a few days on the job the fuel cap went missing. After blaming everyone for being careless and buying a replacement that one went missing. While doing a significant repair we removed some bodywork and found no less than 6 perfectly good fuel caps and discovered a gap at the top of the fuel tank that would open just enough for the cap resting there to fall through

[Kiwi_Roy]

I worked on the installation of a new paper machine, they wouldn't allow us to test the insulation before we turned the power on. When we livened it up there was an almighty bang.
Pulling all the covers off we eventually found an 8" Crescent wrench that had been sitting across the busbars.
Strange to say no-one claimed that.

[oldbike54]

 A service buddy bought a 1964 Chevy Impala , 327 4 speed car , that really pretty shade of almost Amaranth Red that Chevy painted in that year , with the red/white interior . It was running badly and there was a horrible banging noise coming from the front of the engine , two mechanics had told the guy who owned it that it had spun a bearing . Turns out the points were not opening , and when we pulled the radiator and support there was a 3/8ths drive ratchet rattling around and making an awful racket . My bud tried to give it back to the young troop's young wife he got it from , her dad was already on the scene with an almost new car , he told us "hell no ya'll boys are keeping that damn car" 

 Dusty

[nc43bsa]

My first "professional" tool was a Snap-On 3/8" ratchet handle I found in the middle of the road.

Probably fell out of a car after leaving a repair shop.   

[Stretch]

"If it was a 10MM socket you would never have found it."

There is a place in the universe - a sort of black hole - that eats NOTHING
but 10mm sockets....... and those that it can't eat it splits.

                                                             -Stretch

[Siamese]

You were lucky this time that the socket was left on the outside of the bike. 

[blackcat]

55 years ago, as a teen, I worked in a foreign car general repair shop.  I had somehow lost a rather favorite 13mm hand wrench.  One day with a regular customer on the lift I reached into the frame just to rest a moment in the heat.  Felt something move.  My wrench! Kind of wedged between wires and brake tube lines.  Had been resting there comfortably since the previous service episode.  No lie.

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

That's cool, you must have been pretty happy with that reacquaintance.

[Old Jock]

[Moparnut72]

Especially a 6 point.   
kk