new tool gadget recommendation

For reasons that I *cough* don't need to go into right now, involving
some mechanical f-wittery (but unusually for me, not a hammer) - I
needed to retrieve a piece of metal wot had fallen right into the sump
of an engine.

I bought a little grapply hook thingy and a magnet-onna-stick thing
(laser brand), but they were too big to go through the access hole I had.

Hence one of these:
http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail....Name=Flexible Metre Long Magnetic Pickup Tool

Fished the offending part out in 30 sec.

Saved me rather a lot of dismantling that has.

 

Clumsy oaf

ah, so a bolt then

Don't you bung up engine orifices with a bit of rag then ? you know
that bolt or nut you drop is always going to land butter side down
into the sump ...

Paul.

 

<keeping schtum>

 

I usually find that whatever I've dropped turns out not to be
magnetic.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

As do I. I once left a gap of 19.00000000000000000000000000000000001mm.
The 19mm shim bounced once, then went through the gap without touching
the sides.

Dropping the sump on a ZN1300 is quite a mission.

 

You'd never make a surgeon. The medical negligence claims would kill
you ..

Paul.